Ger's words for the day! Here's to Crackpot Friends!!

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends
of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack
in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of
water.
At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the
cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on
daily,with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the
perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed
of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been
made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to
the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my
side causes water to leak out all the way back to this your house."

The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on
your sideof the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known
about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk
back,you water them." "For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate
the table.
Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our
lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what
they are and look for the good in them.

SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to
smell the flowers on yourside of the path!