My Daily Smile

Life is short - begin every day with a smile!

Will you change someone’s world today?

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“Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.”  –John Spence

Based on my own life experiences, I believe one of the most powerful tools we have for building a happy life is helping others make their own lives a little better.

It’s certainly true that a person can live their entire life being concerned about no one but himself or herself, and plenty of people do. And just by looking in from the outside, most of those people don’t seem to be all that happy.  [Read more…]

Video: Have you ever seen a train like this before?

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I’ve seen a lot of trains in my life and I’ve had to sit and wait many times while a seemingly endless line of rail cars slowly rolled past me at a crossing.

Well, the train you’ll see in the short video below is probably unlike any train you have ever seen before. I know it was a new one for me. [Read more…]

Life is but a vapor. Make every day count.

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“…For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.“

-–James 4:14

Have you ever walked through a local cemetery and looked at the headstones of the folks who passed away a century or more ago?

If so, you probably saw at least a few that bore your own last name, especially if the cemetery was located in the community where you and your ancestors were from.

Now, think about this… [Read more…]

Nostalgic video: When the ‘Dial Telephone’ Came to Town

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Most youngsters today have never even seen an old-style “dial telephone”, and fewer still have ever used one.

The thing is, it wasn’t all that long ago when those nostalgic devices were in virtually every home and business and mounted in “phone booths” on busy street corners.

My, how times have changed…  [Read more…]

Did you know the North Star is actually (at least) three stars?

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Most everyone is familiar with the North Star.

After all, it’s been guiding mariners across the seas and travelers across the continents for ages.

And if you were paying attention in science class you probably know the official name of the North Star is Polaris.

But here’s something you probably don’t know: Polaris isn’t just the one star that we see when we gaze at the night sky and see the North Star…  [Read more…]