8/11/2011

Lauren/Angel Williams, www.facebook.com/TheQueenKnockout?sk=wall, is from Toronto, Ontario and that’s in Canada, but now she lives in Tampa, Florida. When I think of Canada I think of Joey Votto, because I am a sports nut (Votto is a Canadian born Cincinnati Reds baseball player.) But let me briefly talk about Lauren, and I possibly (I think that I did) use one of her quotes previously, but it was in the initial stages of this group… neither I nor the vast majority of you can recall for certain. Lauren had the following quote on her facebook page:

“Health, happiness, and success depend on the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life- but what we do about what happens to us.”
-Lauren Williams


Even though Lauren says she only speaks French a little she was born in Canada, and when I took my foreign language in my junior year of high school the class went on a week long field trip one spring to Quebec, Canada. We locked in whether we were going early that school year and even though I never went (because baseball was in the springtime,) I have always associated French speaking people with Canada even though the majority of Canadians speak English primarily. Many of my classmates went there to “learn” the French language and culture (Lol, yeah right… it was a celebration,) but I was focused on sports and studies. I did tear my ACL, meniscus, and cartilage the winter of my junior year and was not participating in baseball at the time of the excursion, but I was locked in on rehabilitation (basketball was coming soon) so I never went on the field rip. Maybe if we would have travelled to France I would have gone.

Speaking of France makes me think of my friend Delphine Brun, www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1104893421&ref=ts, and she speaks their national language, but she also speaks English fairly well. She has a master degree, as I do, and I enjoy talking with her. She was a fan of the show “Lost” when it was on. I liked that show too, but the ending (or lack thereof) left a sour taste in my mind. I think she mentioned Elvis Presley last time we spoke, and Elvis was a big Gospel music guy. I am a fan of his hits, but not the following Elvis video, www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nr-dukYATs .
I am running short on time this week since I am busy with cutting down trees in our yard that are dead (ash trees- www.emeraldashborer.info,) but I’ll put two more quotes. Every Ash tree we have is infected. The first one is kind of comical I think, but who knows (I’ve never been married):
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.” - Albert Einstein

What I think of when I hear Albert Einstein usually involves books and gaining knowledge, definitely not love and marriage. I am relatively certain that he never spoke in fragments… like the ending sentence of his quote above. Therefore the certainty of it’s’ legitimacy remains somewhat uncertain in my opinion. The last quote is about life:

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain…”
-Vivian Greene

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