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MISCELLANY
EndNotes
Life’s mysteries
Why do bad things happen?
Why are there bad people and things in the world?
And how come they aren’t all good things?
These are very important questions,
And no one knows the answers.
Nobody knows if there is any answer at all.
Why can’t people live in peace and harmony?
Why can’t the nations all be friends?
And white and black people live in peace?
Why are there wars?
Why do people suffer and die?
And who decides all this?
Is there a God?
Is there a Heaven?
Is there life in space and other planets?
And if there is will we make contact?
Why do people want to hurt each other?
Which religions are right and which are wrong?
No one has answered these yet,
Can you?
Simon, Wrexham,
BBC / Wales
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The full quotation from
which we printed an extract on the contents page, by late Benjamin E. Mays, a former
president of Morehouse College and a great American educator:
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach for. It isn’t a calamity
to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. Not
failure, but low aim is sin.”
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What I See When I Look in the Mirror
When I look in the mirror I see
A light brown skinned boy with a circle rounded face
When I look in the mirror I see
A head full of black strings all in different directions
I see little brown dark oval eyes
Full of hope, love, joy, peace, care, meekness all that
Is perceived from his smile
The showing of all his teeth
When I look in the mirror I am laughing.
Rupert Haughton, STARS
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and
forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk
sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are.
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
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Soft little droplets
Which quench mother nature's thirst
making the world green
Haiku by
Kristen Armand (Education World)
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