If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ The Dalai Lama

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Lost time is never found again.” – Rev John Hill Aughey (1928-1911)

“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.” ~  Wally ‘Famous’ Amos

Henry Gibson, a cherub-faced actor who recited nonsense poems in a Southern drawl on the TV series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and who later stood out as a smarmy country star in the 1975 film “Nashville,” died on Monday at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 73.

The cause was cancer, his son Jon said.

Mr. Gibson made his living working the margins in dozens of films and TV shows.

It was the hit “Laugh-In” that made him a star. Wearing clerical garb and sipping tea, he would calmly circulate in the show’s frenetic cocktail-party scene, deliver a one-liner and then melt into the crowd.

As a simpering poet, he would hold a single flower and announce, with deadpan formality, “A Poem, by Henry Gibson.”

The verse that followed, always written by Mr. Gibson, was ludicrous, like “The Eyelash”:

The eyelash is a friend to man.

It lives to serve the eye.

It fights the dirt and dust and grime,

And keeps the eyeball dry.

The rest of the obituary is here at the NEW YORK TIMES.

No mores  poems by Henry Gibson. ;-(  I recall those wonderful poems from the “Laugh-In” Days. I was a big “Laugh-In” fan. In fact our Senior play in High school was “Laugh-In.”   Hmm, I can’t recall who played Henry Gibson in the play but I do remember a student Laura Parr did a “mean” (in a good way) Lily Tomlin imitation

Here we go again — two celebrity icons in one week. Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary being the second. Add to that the loss of Patrick Swayze and that trifecta of so sad news is more than enough for one week. Don’t you agree?

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

After a long, tough week I ran across this quote. This is really deep! I had to read it a few times and then it magically clicked in my stressed brain that the thing I had been crying about all week was in fact a blessing in my life.

“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It’s a wonderful life and I love it.” ~ James Maury “Jim” Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990)

Quoted from “It’s Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider.”

The Jim Henson Company