Today is the start of the end of summer, wow. School starts this month, I go hunting and soon it will be September with the leaves changing, hard to believe. It was a short summer for sure. Heck, football even starts tonight with the bronco’s playing the Falcon’s in pre-season.
Yesterday I met a woman and her kids at Mom’s through a buddy of mine that it looks like will be buying the piano on Saturday. I showed her the piano around noon after I met my buddy Art around 10 in Cherry Creek who called them to see if anyone was interested. They want an invoice (?) so I’ll have to dummy one up. She said it’s cracked underneath and wants to have the warranty transferred. I should spiff my buddy (I offered) but he said that’s ok. Each of us kids should get $500 or so. We’re buying a guitar with our share as the boys have been playing and this way we have something from Mom’s piano.
James and I also cleaned out more stuff from the garage and basement. There’s all that old liquor in the small closet down there that has to be cleaned out. Also the shed behind the garage still has stuff in it and there’s still furniture in Robi’s old room. It was sort of surreal being in the empty house all alone where we all grew up. In the end though, it’s just a house. What made it a home was all of us being there and all the fun times we had growing up. Still though, sort of sad to see it go.
Thinking about life and such, I came across this post from Steve Jobs that’s worth a read, check it out.
Steve Jobs died a billionaire, with a fortune of $7 billion, at the age of 56 from pancreatic cancer, and here are some of his last words…
“In other eyes, my life is the essence of success, but aside from work, I have little joy. And in the end, wealth is just a fact of life to which I am accustomed.â€
“At this moment, lying on the bed, sick and remembering all my life, I realize that all my recognition and wealth that I have is meaningless in the face of imminent death. You can hire someone to drive a car for you, make money for you – but you can not rent someone to carry the disease for you. One can find material things, but there is one thing that can not be found when it is lost – LIFEâ€.
Treat yourself well, and cherish others. As we get older we are smarter, and we slowly realize that a watch is worth $30 and a watch that is worth $300 – both show the same time.
Whether we carry a purse worth $30 or $300 – the amount of money in the wallets are the same.
Whether we drive a car worth $75,000, or a car worth $7,500 – the road and distance are the same, we reach the same destination.
If we drink a bottle worth $300 or wine worth $10 – the “stroller†will be the same.
If the house we live in is 1000 square feet or 10,000 square feet – the loneliness can still be the same.
Your true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world.
Whether you’re flying first class, or economy class – if the plane crashes, you crash with it.
I hope you understand the value of having REAL friends or someone that you can confide in.
Important Things to Remember
Do not educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy. – So when they grow up they will know the value of things, not the price.
Eat your food as medicine, otherwise you will need to eat your medicine as food.
Whoever loves you will never leave you, even if he/she has 100 reasons to give up. He/she will always find one reason to hold on.
There is a big difference between being human and a human being.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
The seven best healers in the world
God
Sunlight
Rest
Diet
Exercise
Friends
Self confidence
Keep them in all stages of life and enjoy a healthy life.
Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends…
Treat yourself well. Cherish others.
“Love the people God sent you, one day He’ll need them back.â€
Pretty profound if you think about it. Most people won’t until they too are facing their creator. Guess that’s the way life works but I think we’d all be better off if we could take away something from the above words. Mom used to say “things are just things”. As is said above, as we get older, we get smarter, hopefully!
Back to today, Ty has Deb this morning so time to get moving. Hope all’s well, take care, be safe and God Bless.