A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert.

During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath.The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him.

After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"

The other friend replied "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them.

Send this phrase to the people you'll never forget. Take the time to live!

Do not value the THINGS you have in your life. But value WHO you have in your life!

Phrase of the Day - Break a Leg

Literal meaning: I command you to break a bone in your leg and you should probably go to the doctor afterwards to get it fixed.

Idiomatic meaning: Do your best and do well. Often, actors tell each other to “break a leg” before they go out on stage to perform

Phrase of the Day

To have something coming out of one's ears
- have too much of something.

THERE WAS AN OLD LADY

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed a fly.
I guess she'll die.There was an old lady who swallowed a spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled insider her.

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed a fly.
I guess she'll die.There was an old lady who swallowed a bird.
How absurd! To swallow a bird!

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled insider her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed a fly.
I guess she'll die.

(Continue verses)

Cat . . . Imagine that! She swallowed a cat.
Dog . . . What a hog! She swallowed a dog.
Goat . . . She opened her throat and in walked a goat.
Cow . . . I don't know how she swallowed that cow.

There was an old lady, she swallowed a horse.
She died of course!

Five laws of library science
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In 1931, the Madras Library Association published the first edition of The Five Laws of Library Science, written by the Library Director at the University of Madras, S. R. Ranganathan. The work came to be considered a fundamental statement of the professional and ethical principles of librarianship, reached a broad audience both within and outside India, and has been widely read and studied by librarians and library science students ever since. The following are the five laws established by Ranganathan in that book, along with a summary of his explanations of the principles.

Books are for use.

Every reader his or her book.

Every book its reader.

Save the time of the reader.

The Library is a growing organism.