Phew!  I'm hot and tired, coming in after a five hour round of golf with the Aliso Viejo Women's Club.  Our team came in second (I contributed on a few holes).  Considering that all I wanted to do was participate and have a good time, the $20 gift certificate each member of our team won is gravy.

Yesterday was a bit closer.  It was a One Man Scramble format, which translated means the following:

1.  Everyone got two mulligans on each hole.

2.  No one could take worse than a bogey.

3.  Winter rules applied, so you could lift, clean and replace your ball.

4.  You could also play the ball within a club length of where it lay, as long as you didn't improve the lie or move it closer to the hole.

I shot a gross 82 for a net 60 and was 1 stroke away from playing in the next level of contribution.  Talk about overperforming one's goals.  My goals for the day were to finish the 18 holes and to have 3 or 4 good shots.

None of which has anything to do with today's "Sunday Question."  I was asked this yesterday though and thought it was a great (and revealing) question:

What is your favorite quote, saying, or truism?

 


Comments

Sally

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:23:25

"Let go and let God"
"Because I said so , that's why."
I'm sure that if you asked my girls, they would say that I said the second comment far more often than the first. MOSM

 

Hal

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:14:02

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

 

Mom #1

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:26:31

What is it that dies in a woman at marriage that at midlife rises to demand resurrection or else a final death? No one who survives to speak new language has avoided this... — Sophie Madlin in Northern Lights, Winter 1994, Volume X, Number 3
Italics, Adrienne Rich from “Transcendental Etude”

 

Laura

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:29:06

Sally,

I was going to comment on how diametrically opposed the two comments were...but you beat me to it!

If I learn how to let go and let God for more than a moment or two...that will be a happy thing indeed!

 

Laura

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:30:24

Hal,

Who are "they?"

Does this apply to me?

<gg>

Seriously, it's so true. Like the line from "Evita."

"Don't look down, it's a long, long way to fall."

 

Laura

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:32:24

Mom,

Do you suppose there's a commensurate death in men at marriage that rises as midlife?

In a way, I think it's the same old story for all of us...we must grow or die.

Or maybe this applies more to women who are both wives and mothers?

 

Laura

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:33:42

Hi all,

My favorite saying is actually a verse:

"He has shown you, O man,
What is good and what the Lord requires of you:
To deal justly,
To love mercy, and
To walk humbly with your God."

 

Mom #1

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:47:18

Well, I don't know if Adrienne Rich was/is a mother. She wrote "Transcendental Etudes". But Sophie Madlin definitely had two daughters at the time she wrote this piece. And no, I don't think most men give up as much when there are children, because even though both parents might work, in my day at least the childcare certainly fell to the woman. The empty nest and beyond are definitely crisis times; that is, unless one does not collect and reassemble the fragments of the self, creating a new creature, the seemingly "inappropriate" stranger. It's easier to not change. I don't think anyone will challenge me on that.

 

Laura

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:32:43

Mom #1, <grin>

I suppose I'd have to quibble and say that it *seems* easier not to change...but I think it's harder to try to keep the status quo when the quo has gone and left!

 

Erik

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:30:28

From "The Natural":

I believe we are given two lives - the life we learn with, and the life we live once we've learned how to live.

 

Laura

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:45:48

Love that quote, Erik!

 



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