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This is a picture of my uncle Al and aunt Felicia presenting
Huntley to his new owner, Maile, at his graduation. They got Huntley
from Guide Dogs for the Blind as
a puppy, raised him for his first year and did "basic training" with
him. Then they returned him to Guide Dogs for advanced training. He
passed his tests and was then officially given to his new owner.
Raising and training a pup for Guide Dogs for a year as my uncle and
aunt did is a great way to serve the community. Guide Dogs provides
detailed instructions for the basic training. Do your kids want a dog,
but you're concerned about how they will handle the long term
responsability? Guide Dogs MIGHT be a good test run, but all kids in
the family must be at least 9 years old.
Good quotes (some of which I even remember sources for!):
Our problems are not really economic or social, but essentialy
spiritual.
-paraphrased, Alan Keyes, 1996, 2000 presidential candidate
Experience is the best teacher...for those who will have no
other.
-Ben Franklin
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always
votes for candidates promising the most benefits from the public
treasury.
-Professor Alexander Titler, writing about democracy in the ancient
Athenian pattern.
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely
overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common
enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but
when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender
their liberties to the first external or internal invader.
-Samuel Adams
Indolence begets ennui.
Life is relationships.
-Pastor Dan Hodgson
We become like what we worship.
Producing is more satisfying than consuming.
As the breakdown of traditional communities (families, neighborhoods
and towns, churches) continues, young people are, in the words of one
writer, 'becoming a culture of homeless people who search continually
for a place to belong.' When they find that place, their belief system
becomes quite subjective and aligns with the belief system of the
community, or 'tribal group,' because the tribal group becomes their
source of identity. Therefore, reality to them is not the traditional
Christian belief system, nor is it the objective, scientific truth
espoused by the Enlightenment period. Rather, it is what is working for
them at that point in time, a kind of 'virtual' reality, quite
different from the computer-generated variety. Gang members shooting
each other can be partially explained by the fact that their need for
belonging and approval is stronger than their objective analysis of the
ramification of pulling the trigger.
Mike Higgs of LINC ministries taken from "Postmoderns, Neopagans,
& Gothics: A Ripe Harvest"
Pork fat rules!
-Emeril Lagasse
Husband is a verb.
Buying government bonds is like giving liquor to an alcoholic.
People who don't read have no advantage over people who can't
read.
There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't mind who gets
the credit.
-plaque on President Reagan's desk
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
-Jim Elliot
Real life has not yet begun.
-C. S. Lewis?