Through the Looking Glass

What is the Meaning of Life?

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Facebook has a group called “The Alan Watts & Buddhism Study Group” of which I’m a member. I don’t read all of the postings but one recently caught my eye. A member had asked simply “What is the meaning of life?” Evidently a lot of people think about this, because the question received the greatest number of responses I’ve ever seen. I culled out the first 112 responses so I could see what the consensus might be. The most numerous response with 24 votes was that the meaning was simply to live; this is close in concept to its runner-up which was “there is no purpose.” So it seems the majority of respondents reject the question with an attitude of “don’t be silly; just get on with it.” The Indian mystic Osho was quoted as saying “Life is the purpose.”

Other responses fell into categories of doing good, learning, and acceptance.

Suffield’s Pride

Brian Claughsey

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Brian Claughsey has always been good at defense. As a high school varsity hockey goalie for four years, he was used to  protecting the goal and fighting off slapshots. In September 2015 however, he was fighting off something far more deadly serious than slapshots. In the process he was awarded a Silver Star, the highest medal for combat valor not unique to any specific service branch and the third highest military award exclusively for combat valor. Brian graduated from Suffield High School in 2002 and from Western New England College in 2006 with a degree in business management.

Food for Thought

Food For Thought

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National Ice Cream Month – July

“Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.”

– Jim Fiebig

“I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.”

– Wendy Liebman

“I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.”

– Brian Regan

National Picnic Month – July

“We hope that when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”

– Bill Vaughan

“Among the delights of summer were picnics to the woods.”

– Georg Brandes

“A couple went for a picnic. They have five sons and each son has seven sisters and each sister has three babies. In total, how many people went for the picnic?”

– Pinterest

(*see answer at end)

“If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?”

– Marie Dressler

International Joke Day – July 1

“If Plan A fails, remember that you have 25 letters left.”

– Unknown

“If people say they just love the smell of books, I always want to pull them aside and ask, ‘To be clear, do you know how reading works?’”

– @bridger_w

“Been reading up on the thesaurus lately because a mind is a terrible thing to garbage.”

– @dinokitten

“What do you call someone who can’t stick with a diet? A desserter”

– Reader’s Digest

“The cool part about naming your child is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.”

– Bill Murray

“My collection of vintage kitchen utensils includes one whose intended purpose was always a mystery.

In Memoriam

In Memoriam

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Daniel J. Beneski April 24, Age 42 Sharon A. Meola May 2, Age 58 Joan M. “Joanie” Berghal May 18, Age 35 Martha G. Clark May 19, Age 89 James E. Williamson May 21, Age 83 Lydia Elizabeth Trillo May 23, Age 44 Shawn Phillip Lopez May 24, Age 20 Michael John Kotowski June 6, Age 56 Dorothy Kaplan McCarty June 6, Age 87 […]