Double Feature

by Hattie Dyck

Marjorie's Creed

While scrolling trough Facebook I came across this post from

Marjorie Thompson, Maitland, my friend for a lot of years. I loved

it, and as one who, like Marjorie, has been controversial at times,

changed it a bit to have some fun sharing it with you. I’m sure at

times it can apply to all of us.

IF YOU ARE INCLINED TO BE CONTROVERSIAL AT TIMES.

If you are inclined to be controversial at times,

you’ll always be brave in someone’s mind

but maybe not quite as strong to others.

You will be seen as right by your friends, but maybe wrong to others.

You may be comforting to some but annoying to others.

Some will find peace and happiness in your company,

but some will be anxious around you.

Many will see you as a gift, but some may see you as too much.

The world always looks at us from a subjective point of view.

The world will never agree on a definition of who we are.

So, we may as well live by the golden rule, be

true to ourselves, be happy, and enjoy ourselves.

Not a bad piece of advice.

Thingamajig

   Did you ever go looking for a thingamajig? If so you might not find it because most of us on some occasions forget what we’re looking for in the first place. Most of us can remember those lapses of memory when someone asks us what we’re doing, or looking for and we don’t have a clue. It’s part of what makes us interesting people as we can always relate to others “in the same boat.” Or, conversely, they can relate to us. “It’s all in a day’s work.”

   Remember the old classic “The little engine that could?” Adults used it as an example to help youth to keep trying and the odds would be with them. And, of course “a stitch in time saved nine,” unless you got your shirt caught in the tines of a pitch fork while putting the old bales of hay in the farm hay mow and the rip was too long to mend.

   Children learned that the only thing that comes without effort is old age, and when it does come you’ll find there are many wrinkles and leaks that come with it. We also learned to figure things out for ourselves and if we couldn’t we were made to read the directions rather than to depend on someone else to do it for us.

   We learned to forgive our enemies not only because it’s the Christian thing to do but also because it annoys them no end that you can do it. “To the victor goes the spoils” was a message passed on to the late Clarence Johnson, Truro, who was President of a committee that worked to have the

Shubenacadie River Crossing ( the Gosse Bridge) built. Although the crossing was built when Gerald Regan was premier there was an election before the official opening was held and it was opened by the late Premier John Buchanan.

   Another common old expression is that “worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but won’t get you anywhere.”

Two of the really nice ones  are that “a hug is always a gift and one size fits all,” and “a friend is one who comes in when it seems the whole world has gone out.”

Bye for now friends.