Christmas Song Wisdom: Sleigh Ride

Sleigh Ride

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ringting tingleing, too,
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you,
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "Yoo Hoo,"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you.

Giddy-yap, giddy-yap,giddy-yap, let's go,
Let's look at the show,
We're riding in a wonderland of snow.
Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, it's grand,
Just holding your hand,
We're gliding along with a song of a wintery fairyland,

Our cheeks are nice and rosy, and comfy cozy are we,
We're snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would be.
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two,
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you.

INTERLUDE

There's a birthday party at the home of Farmer Gray,
It'll be the perfect ending of a perfect day,
We'll be singing the songs we love to sing without a single stop,
At the fireplace while we watch the chestnuts pop.
Pop! Pop! Pop!

There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy,
When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie,
It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives,
These wonderful things are the things we remember all thru our lives!

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ringting tingleing, too,
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you,
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "Yoo Hoo,"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you.

Leroy Anderson, Music
Mitchell Parish, Lyrics
First Performed in 1948
Lyrics Added in 1950
ASCAP, Alfred Music Publishing


Source: leroyanderson.com

Movie Wisdom: His Kind of Woman

Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price): [to Milner (Robert Mitchum) and Lenore] Well, what did you think of the picture?

Lenore Brent (Jane Russell): [Sarcasm] Oh, it was fine. It was just a little long - about an hour and a half.

After an advance screening of actor Mark Cardigan's new swashbuckling film.

His Kind of Woman, 1951
Written by Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard, Gerald Drayson Adams, Earl Felton
RKO Pictures

Source: imdb.com

Movie Wisdom: His Kind of Woman

Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum): Well, you see how it is: fools get away with the impossible.

Lenore Brent (Jane Russell): That's because they're the only ones who try it.

His Kind of Woman, 1951
Written by Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard, Gerald Drayson Adams, Earl Felton
RKO Pictures

Source: imdb.com

John Lennon on Love

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

John Lennon

Source: goodreads.com

To honor everyone touched by the events on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.

Albert Schweitzer on Connection

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Source: goodreads.com

Barack Obama on Rising

In Taylor we see the best of America -- a spirit that says, when we get knocked down, we rise again. When times are tough, we come together. When one of us falters, we lift them up. In this country we take care of our own –- especially our veterans who have served so bravely and sacrificed so selflessly in our name. And we carry on, knowing that our best days always lie ahead.

Recognizing Petty Officer Taylor Morris who lost both legs, an arm, and a hand in Afghanistan. At the time of the explosion, even though he was bleeding out, Morris warned off those coming to his aid to keep them from being injured until the area could be secured from explosives. Morris has been working on his recovery and with prosthetics has been able to walk again (and dance with his wife). He did not attend the Veteran's Day address because he was out kayaking with his wife Danielle.

Barack Obama
2012 Veteran's Day Address
Arlington National Cemetery

Read and view President Obama's address by clicking on this link to Huffington Post.

John Greenleaf Whittier on Power

To-day, alike are great and small,
The nameless and the known;
My palace is the people's hall,
The ballot-box my throne!

John Greeleaf Whittier
written in the 19th century

Source: The Old Farmer's Almanac Companion Newsletter, November 6, 2012

James Garfield on Voting

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption.

James Garfield
A Century of Congress
Published in Atlantic, July 1877

Source: register-herald.com

Chuck Pagano on Resilience

You refused to live in the circumstances.  You decided consciously, as a team and family, to live in the vision.

Coach Chuck Pagano
Indianapolis Colts
Postgame speech after the Colts beat the Miami Dolphins
November 4, 2012

Chuck Pagano is undergoing treatment for leukemia. ChuckStrong.

Source: usatoday.com

William Biamonte on Resolution

Come hell or high water, and we got both of them, people will be voting on Tuesday.

William Biamonte
Democratic Commissioner for the Nassau County Board of Elections

Source: cnn.com

Bob Marley on Friendship

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

Source: goodreads.com

Movie Wisdom: Judgment at Nuremberg

A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. 'It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!' Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what 'we' stand for: 'justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!'

Spenser Tracy as Judge Dan Haywood

Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961
Written by Abby Mann,
with uncredited contributor Montgomery Clift
Roxlon Films/United Artists

Source: imdb.com

Barack Obama on Critical Thought

You mention the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. We have these things called aircraft carriers and planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. It's not a game of 'Battleship' where we're counting ships, it's 'What are our capabilities?'

Barack Obama
to Mitt Romney
October 22, 2012, Presidential debate

Source: huffingtonpost.com

Bruce Springsteen on American Reslience

We’re still living through very hard times but justice, equality and real freedom are not always a tide rushing in. They are more often a slow march, inch by inch, day after long day.

Bruce Springsteen
from A Message from Bruce
October 17, 2012 

Read the entire message, click here.

Mike Greenberg on Perspective

This is how negative I am - the glass isn't half-full, the glass isn't half-empty - it's a dribble glass and it's cracked.

Mike Greenberg
Mike and Mike in the Morning, October 1, 2012
ESPN