Live life to the fullest
Lost a friend last week. Loving husband, father, avid fisherman, minister... Lived life to the fullest. God called him home last week. I did not know the passenger, but my thoughts and prayers include him.
You may remember a picture thread I posted from a trip to Alaska in 2007.. Some of the pictures are below.
Sometime between 2:20 and 2:40 on August 17th Richards Supercub crashed on takeoff. Alaska state troopers were in the area on a normal coastal patrol and discovered the wreckage at about 2:45.
link:
http://www.adn.com/2011/08/17/2019683/two-missing-after-cordova-plane.html 
Godspeed in your journey Richard. You will be missed.
Random inspirational thought...
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.
He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, 'You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.
Remember that friends are very rare jewels indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed; They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.
post edited by Blowchowski - 2011/08/22 18:23:33