This Moment is Your Life

"Be happy for this moment; this moment is your life."
-Omar Khayyam

"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life,
you must accept the terms it offers you."
-T.S. Eliot

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it."

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"...You can get busy living or you can get busy dying"
-Tim Robbin's Character, Andy, in The Shawshank Redemption
(Margie's note: I forgot the exact quote, but it's close to that.)

"We don't remember days, we remember moments."
-Cesare Pavese

"Life is the sum of all of your choices."

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just,
that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
-Norman Mailer

"Life is not holding a good hand;
Life is playing a poor hand well."
-Danish proverb

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"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves
Wondering if we had spent our living days well;
I can't believe that we would lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we might have been."

~ Dave Matthews ~

Tiger + Piglets = Tiglets?

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare
set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy,
the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly
started to decline in health, although physically she was fine.
The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused
the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the
tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the
depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to
introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try
something that had never been tried in a zoo environment.

Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a
different species. The only "orphans" that could be found quickly, were
a litter of wiener pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in
tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.