Posts Tagged ‘Miracle’

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There Are Never Enough Good Excuses

by Seraphine Khorana on April 27th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
There Are Never Enough Good Excuses

We tried to find a good excuse to extend our mini-holiday in Santa Cruz. We could think of a thousand “lame” excuses: We forgot which day it was; We couldn’t drive home because it was a ‘Spare the Air’ day; We had to clean up a potato that exploded in the microwave. But unfortunately, we couldn’t think of a GOOD excuse to stay.

Bad excuses are worse than none.
Quotation from Thomas Fuller

Please excuse Blanche from jim today. She is administrating.
Quotation from 28 Funny Excuses for Missing School (School-Survival.net)

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Biaaah!

by Seraphine Khorana on December 9th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Biaaah!

How do children learn how to make elephant sounds? I can understand a moo-moo here and an oink-oink there, but an elephant? It must be something babies are born with, because every infant I’ve met knows how to **BiaAAH!**

A baby’s cry is appropriately disturbing: ear-piercing enough to get the caregiver’s attention… but not so disturbing as to make the listener want to avoid the sound altogether.
Quotation from Ask Dr. Sears, 7 Things Parents Should Know About Baby’s Cries

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Every Negative has a Corresponding Positive

by Seraphine Khorana on December 7th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Every Negative has a Corresponding Positive

Nuclei can decay by positron emission; they may also decay by electron capture, so I’ll try to be positive for you. A life in equilebrium is a happy life.

Gravitation naturally does not exist for this observer. She must fasten herself with strings to the floor, otherwise the slightest impact against the floor will cause her to rise slowly towards the ceiling of the room.
Quotation from Albert Einstein, The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Quotation from Carl Jung

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Hungry for Love

by Seraphine Khorana on November 29th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Hungry for Love

I think we all hunger for love even when we have it, for without it, we are a shell of what we could be.

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been… When I am my present “normal” self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.
Quotation from Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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Tornado Part 3: Shelter

by Seraphine Khorana on June 25th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Tornado Part 3: Shelter

It’s freaking hot under those mattresses, even at 10:30 at night.
Someone said my ears would pop from the tornado pressure.
We already knew it had destroyed nearby Chapman, Kansas.
Now it was here in Manhattan, still on the ground.
Everyone had their cellphones turned on.
“It’s in the SW Miller Ranch area.”
“The True Value store is gone.” Gone?
It’s on campus. “It hit Fiedler Hall.”
Why would anyone attend a cheerleading camp in Kansas?

June 11th Tornado Information with Photos (noaa.gov)
Tornado Track Through Manhattan, Kansas (noaa.gov)
Kansas State University Damage (K-State.edu)

“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Quotation from Albert Einstein

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