Issue #8: What does your mate truly need? August 09, 2001
Hello,
Feel free to forward our newsletter to your friends. When I was a kid, I used to love riddles. I tried to solve one riddle after another. Somehow as we've growing up, we prefer more practical problems. We totally forget about riddles. This week I bring some fun riddles back to your life. If you think this is childish, you are right. We should get in touch with our inner child! It is a lot healthier than you can ever imagine. Do you want to date someone who is fun and youthful or someone who is eyebrow rising all the time? If you think you have answers for these riddles, send it to us at webmaster@ISOpersonals.com. We will publish the answers next week. So here are the riddles.
1. The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place
2. What is so fragile that when you say its name, you break it?
I don't know who wrote these riddles. My sister sent them to me. If you have any other riddles, send them to webmaster@ISOpersonals.com. We will mention your ad along with your riddles to give you some extra exposure.
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Love Quotes:
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"They always say that time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself."
_Andy Warhol
"No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything about
yourself or your life that you want to change."
_Barbara De Angelis
Send your love quotes to webmaster@ISOpersonals.com. We will mention your ad along with your quotes to give you some extra exposure.
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Dating Humor:
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The Slider
A man and a woman were having dinner in a fine restaurant. The man started to slide slowly down his chair and under the table. The waitress saw that and believed that the woman dining with him was apparently unaware of his disappearance. She came over and said to the woman, "Pardon me, ma'am, but I think your husband just slid under the table." The woman calmly looked up at her and replied firmly, "No he didn't. He just walked in the door."
4yrarms sent us the following joke. It is a little offensive. So if you are sensitive, please don't read it.
Superman
Superman was feeling bored after a long break of crime fighting and wanted to go out and party. He flew over to Wonderwoman's apartment to see if she was free. As he landed on her balcony, he saw Wonderwoman naked on the bed with her legs open. Superman thought, "I'm faster than a speeding bullet. I could be in there, have sex and out again before she knew what was happening." So he did and flied out happily. Meanwhile on the bed, Wonderwoman asked, "Did you hear anything?" "No!" said the Invisible Man, "But my ass hurts like hell!"
Send your jokes to webmaster@ISOpersonals.com. We will mention your ad along with your jokes to give you some extra exposure.
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Weekly Article:
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We have all been hurt or treated badly in dating on some level. We always complain about it, but what we don't know is that we may have hurt or treated someone else badly too. We are always aware of how people affect us, but we aren't often aware of how we affect other people. "We all want to be cared for, to know we matter, and to feel loved" but do we give the same kind of treatment to the ones we date? A father writes this excellent article about his little daughter's love for her mother, but I think the article works for everybody especially in maintaining a relationship. I wouldn't be surprised if you learn more than one lesson from this article. I know I did. I hope you enjoy the article and have a great weekend.
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Words of Wisdom from the Refrigerator Door
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By T.W. Winslow
"To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in children produces strange and wonderful new thoughts and forms. To continually scramble the familiar and bring the old into new juxtaposition." - Gordon Webber.
Every so often something comes along which prompts me to evaluate myself and my life - something which helps open my eyes to some of life's simple truths, and, in doing so, provides me with direction and inspiration. Many times these come quite unexpectedly and from surprising sources.
One such something came just the other day. Alex, our seven-year-old daughter, brought home an assignment she had completed at school. The assignment entailed picking someone she loved and writing down some of the reasons for her affection. Alex's paper was titled, "My Mom is the World's greatest Mom because . . . "
If before reading her paper I was asked what reasons Alex would give for why she thought her Mom was the World's greatest, I would have guessed she'd said things like: she buys me toys; she takes me to McDonalds; she makes dinner; she takes me ice-skating, etc. Of course these things did appear on her list, but what surprised me were the other things she mentioned.
"My Mom is the World's greatest Mom because: She takes care of our family. She listens to what I have to say. Sometimes I tell her a secret and she keeps it. She plays with me. She loves me. . . ."
In these few short sentences, I discovered what was most important to my daughter. Not the trips to the local burger joint or the new bicycle. Not the expensive ice-skates or the increase in her allowance. Not even the nice home she lives in. No, the things that matter most to her are the same things that matter most to us all.
We all want to feel safe, secure and protected. We all want to be heard, to have our voice count. We all want respect, to be treated honesty, fairly. We all want to be valued, to know others want to spend time with us. And most important, we all want to be cared for, to know we matter, and to feel loved.
As a parent, my daughter's words will remain with me forever. They will serve to remind me of what my daughter truly needs, rather than what I think I need to provide for her. Her words will also help me to remember that what she holds most precious are basically the same for us all. Perhaps this will enable me to be a better father, a better husband, a better friend, a better man.
As for my daughter's paper, it now hangs proudly in the Winslow Hall of Fame (ie: it's stuck to the refrigerator door) - a testament to the love between mother and daughter. As for what I think of Alex's subject matter, I couldn't agree more - her mom is the World's greatest! So what part do I as the father play in all of this? Theodore Hesburgh may have said it best; "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." Well, that's one part I'm most happy to play.
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