Burden

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.   Matthew 11:30

Get on with it

Take a method and try it.  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  By all means, try something.  Franklin Roosvelt

Quote of the week - February 4, 2013

Quote of the week:

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Henry Van Dyke

How do you define success?

What are some of your favorite success quotes?

Quote of the Day - Febuary 4, 2012

It is only as we develop others, that we permanently succeed. -Harvey S Firestone

Monday - January 23, 2012

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Haimish

haimish. It’s a Yiddish word that suggests warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality.

Word of the day - June 21, 2011

Ameliorate

Saw this word in an article I read today (see "What I Read Today" blog) by David Brooks in the New York Times about USA aid money spent in Afghanistan.

Web definitions

• better: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• To make better, to improve; to heal; to solve a problem

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ameliorate

• amelioration - the act of relieving ills and changing for the better

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• ameliorating(a): tending to ameliorate

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• Amelioration - Semantic change, also known as semantic shift or semantic progression describes the evolution of word usage — usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelioration_(semantic)

• amelioration - The act of making better; an improvement

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amelioration

• to make a situation better or more tolerable

www.nps.gov/plants/restore/library/glossary.htm

• The process by which, over successive generations, the nucleotide composition of a horizontally transferred DNA segment becomes identical to that of the host genome.

www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v4/n2/glossary/nrg1000_glossary.…

• amelioration - The addition of sugar and/or water to must or wine. This can also refer to adjusting the acid level.

www.honeycreek.us/definitions.php

• ameliorated - Improvement in condition.

www.cancerni.net/glossary/11/lettera

• amelioration - Decrease in intensity of the person's symptoms, this follows any aggravation phase.

www.homeopathy-info.co.uk/homeopathy-resources/homeopath…