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Welcome. Most of what I’m saying on this page appeared in the very first post of the blog. But since that is going to be rapidly shoved off the site’s front page by the wealth of wit and wisdom you and I put into this wonderful new blog — I felt I should preserve it here. It’s really just a bit of a discussion of how I got the idea for the website’s name: “Take Time for Living.”

So here’s the essence of it, and I quote from that first fateful post of March 11, 2008:

“There’s a saying that’s been attributed to John Lennon of Beatles fame that goes something like this: ‘Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.’ From what I’ve been able to find out searching on the Internet, JL probably said this — but he probably wasn’t the first notable person to say it.

“At any rate, that always ring true to me: I look at my life and realize that, the older I get, the more I discover the things I PLANNED for my life were overtaken by the things which have HAPPENED in my life, planned or not — mostly not.

“So I want to make this blog a combination of good news and bad news — happy things and unhappy things — I want it to be a place where we take the time to LIVE, with living meaning pretty much all that comes along during our daily and not-so-daily journey.”

Those are the basics. I hope you’ll hang around and see what’s here to see. I hope you’ll come back often. Above all, I hope you’ll see or read something here you heartily agree with or heartily disagree with and leave us your comment(s). Frequently.

And as an old friend of mine used to say:

“Have a good day — unless you’ve got something else planned.”

Hang around. Share your own thoughts through the comments form. Let’s have some fun, eh?