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Friday, June 26th, 2009
5:41 A.M.



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My show n tell this week isn't really anything that needs to be explained. It's a ceramic Tea For One [teapot/teacup]...with a Frog in a lily pond. Take notice of the 'rest of his body' after you take the teapot off the cup. [2nd photo] Kinda like, he's under water? That's my impression.




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For Want of a Nail

Did you have something that was so pounded in your head when you were a kid that it stuck in your brain for decades? Many many times as I grew up, when I thought that I was smarter than the average adult...you remember how 'stupid' your parents were when you were a teen, right?...my little ego that was too big for my britches. My dad used to recite a proverb/rhyme to me to show me that my ego would get in the way and things didn't turn out as expected and I was at a loss. He always set me straight with just a few words, but never condemning me. They were:

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Thing is, I belong to a paint shop group online and I get images sent to me to make my own graphics. As I opened my email account to check the newest images sent, the title of one was "for-the-want-of-a-nail". Now I wouldn't normally do this, but when I opened the image I thought it was so darned cute, I had to share it...see the nail at the king's feet? [see image] It certainly made me think of my dad how he'd nonchalantly shared with me those words of wisdom for my actions/thoughts and how he'd subtly remind me that the small things are important too to be a 'winner'.



A kingdom was lost...in other words, something of great importance may depend on an apparent trivial detail! Don't forget the small things in life, they're just as important as accomplishing the larger things that you may think are MORE important.


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Function f is a rule
that assigns to each real number x
in its domain a unique
real number f(x) in its range.
F is the function and f(x)
is the value of the function
f at x.
Always refer to f(x),
or y if y = f(x),
as the function. ....WHATEVER!!!