Day Trip to Nauvoo

These are pretty purple flowers and a picket fence in front of Brigham Young's home. The day in Nauvoo was a nice way to spend the Sabbath.

Some Rules from www.pragmaticbuddhism.org

The Rules

Gamble's Rule
When your work speaks for itself, shut up.

Starr's Law
Worry is interest you pay on money you didn't borrow.

Einstein's 2nd Rule of Relativity
Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of value.

Lillian's Legacy
There are beings in this world whose sole function in your life is to allow you to acquire good karma, practice patience and build character. And sometimes they are all too easy to find.

The Rule of Expectations (Mark Twain)
Expecting life to treat you "fairly" because you're a good person is like expecting the bull NOT to charge you because you're a vegetarian.

The Second Rule of Expectations
An EXPECTATION is a Premeditated resentment.
Contributed by Julia

Rule of Just Compensation
Nobody can be paid enough for a job that politeness can be left out or ignored. The price paid by the employer or the employee (or both) is the loss of humanity.

Rule of Cheap Lessons
The only lessons really worth learning are those that are the most expensive.

Rule of Politeness
Impoliteness, like confrontation, is sometimes an act of violence, and it is always an act of aggression.

Sandburg's Solution (Carl Sandburg)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

The Rule regarding Growing Old
Don't fret old age, it is a privilege denied to many.

Rule of Illusionary Value
Most people will sacrifice more and fight harder to protect a valuable illusion than they will to defend an unglamorous truth.

Rule of Wrong Lessons
If the student, friend or companion is not permitted or encouraged to question; not permitted or encouraged to a dialog; the principle lesson learned is indifference.

Rule Regarding Mind Reading
If men and women were really capable of reading each others' minds, most would be either too embarrassed or too angry to ever face each other again.

Harold E. Kohn's Rule
Brooks become crooked by following the path of least resistance. So do people.

Galbraith's Rule of Choices
Faced with a choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Lincoln's Criteria
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

Seneca's Note
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. - Seneca (5BC - 65AD)

E. E. Cumming's Rule of Conquest
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.-- e.e. cummings

The Rule of HALT
When Hungry, Angry, Lonely and/or Tired, stop what you are doing and take care of yourself. -Shi Shen Long

Rule of Veracity
People will believe a lie if they want it to be true or if they are afraid that it is true.

The Four Fears
There are four types of fear. In descending order, they are:
1. The fear of losing what you have.
2. The fear of acquiring what you don't want.
3. The fear of not getting what you want.
4. The fear of not losing what you don't want.

Karpman's Rule - The Drama Triangle
In any drama there are three and only three roles: Victim , Persecutor and Rescuer. Roles can shift in a matter of moments, and any actor can take on any role. (Stephen B. Karpman 1968)

Rule of Realism
Enlightenment does not equal perfection. Rather, it is the simple acceptance of one's unique situation in this life, as authenticated through rigorous self-honesty.

Rule of Buddhist Action
Cease to do harm. Do only good. Do good for others.

Rule of Acculturation
We are all limited by our cultural upbringing, and there is not one person who is free from the acculturation process. This is not a limitation but a natural reflection of dependent origination. Just as human communication is culturally mediated, fish must breathe through gills. I've never met a fish audacious enough to proclaim, "we fish are not truly bound by our gills in this world." Culture, though malleable, is part and parcel of life as a human being.

Rorty's Rule
Take care of freedom and truth will take care of itself.
(Richard Rorty, Pragmatist and CPB supporter)

Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Rule of Relative Humor
"I would laugh too if he wasn't mine"(Wife when she saw her husband drunk on the street in the middle of the day.)