A Heartfelt Read ...

Please read this email ... all the way to the bottom.

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From: cary@djcarystringfellow.com
Sent: 6/23/2008 11:24:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: A Quote from George Carlin

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

[Spyder>>] Now after reading this, please take note that the person (Cary Stringfellow) who sent this email, shortly after the recent death of George Carlin, took his own life about a week later.

You can read a little more about Cary HERE.

Hopefully Cary is now at peace with himself and will sharing a moment with George Carlin.

R.I.P. George Carlin, 71

One of my favorite comics passed away today of heart failure. He will be missed.



WASHINGTON (AFP) — Irreverent US comedian George Carlin, who became known as a voice of the 1970s counterculture and was one of the country's best known funny men, died on Sunday aged 71, US media reported.

The Grammy award winner, whose career spanned five decades, died of heart failure, his publicist Jeff Abraham told the New York Times.

Carlin had a history of heart problems and passed away in Santa Monica, California after checking into the hospital with chest pains.

He won four Grammy Awards, including one for his 1972 comedy recording "FM & AM," in which he combined his older, more conventional material that entertained audiences in the 1950s and 60s, with his new, edgier and more controversial style.

Gray-bearded and often dressed in black casual attire, Carlin frequently admitted to drug use and shocked 1970s audiences with his hit "Seven Words That Can Never Be Said on Television."

When a radio station played the album on air, Carlin's use of numerous swear words sparked a legal case over obscenity regulations that made it all the way to the Supreme Court.

The material was judged indecent, though not obscene, and a 1978 high court ruling upheld the government's right to penalize stations that broadcast such material during hours when young people may typically be tuned in.

Carlin, who also collected five Emmy Awards, was considered in the same class of influential comedians as Richard Pryor and his predecessor Lenny Bruce, the Times said.

The first host of the popular comedy show "Saturday Night Live" when it debuted in 1975, he went on to sell more than one million recordings of his stand up acts and also became a best-selling author.

"I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately," Carlin once said.

Earlier this year, Carlin was named the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and was to accept the award at a ceremony in November.

He performed as recently as last weekend in Las Vegas.

"In his lengthy career as a comedian, writer, and actor, George Carlin has not only made us laugh, but he makes us think," said Kennedy Center chair Stephen Schwarzman. "His influence on the next generation of comics has been far-reaching."

He was an Air Force veteran and got his start in entertainment as a disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Carlin was born in New York and had a daughter, Kelly, with his first wife Brenda who died in 1997. He is survived by his second wife, Sally.