15 December 2008

Thought 16DEC2008

THE INSPECTION
The scouts were in camp. In an inspection, the director found an umbrella neatly rolled inside the bedroll of a small scout. As an umbrella was not listed as a necessary item, the director asked the boy to explain.

"Sir," answered the young man with a weary sigh, "did you ever have a mother?"
Author Unknown - Submitted by Glenn Van Ekeren, extracted from 'Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul', Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne and Marci Shimoff, Health Communications, Inc; 1997

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up - Beverly Sills

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