The Popcorn People

It was winter time.  Christmas was just a few days away and Mama and Daddy were making holiday preparations.  There was an air of expectancy and secrecy all around the house along with the smell of cinnamon and spices.  Angel was waiting for the family to come together in the living room after dinner for the traditional Christmas Tree Decorating.  She could almost taste the hot cocoa Mama would make, and taste the ginger cookies she would set out on the table for everyone to snack on.  Daddy was pulling the tree decorations out of the attic and placing the boxes next to the beautiful pine tree in the front window.  The excitement and expectation was almost more than she could bear!  Daddy put the last box down and Mama pulled the warm, wonderfully smelling cookies out of the oven when the knock at the door came.  "OH NO!", Angel thought, "One of daddy's church members who probably had to talk or pray or something!"  Well, she would do her own praying and pray God would send them away quickly so Christmas decorating could go on as planned!

She heard Daddy say, "Let me get my coat and boots, and I will come," she saw him leave with Mr. Brownlea and head for the old Ford truck parked by the barn.  "Mama," she whined, "where did Daddy go, and what about our Christmas tree?"  "Calm down, honey, Daddy had to go, there has been a fire at the Chaney farm."  Angel was real sorry about that, but this was important too!  Angel was torn between concern for the Chaney boys, Chet and Charlie, and getting her tree decorated.  She and Mama went ahead and unpacked the Christmas Angel, the red and green balls, and the handmade ornaments.  The red and green paper chains that she and Sister had made days ago, were carefully laid out on the table.  Several hours went by and still Daddy did not come home.  Mama called the family in to the living room, Grandpa grabbed a handful of ginger cookies on his way to his favorite chair, and Sister came in rubbing her already sleepy eyes with one hand and carrying her little stuffed lamb, Rachel, with the other.  The decorating began.  There was laughter, and singing, and joking, and lots of looks toward the front door.  It was fun, but it was not the same with Daddy missing.

Just as the last ornament was put on the tree, Angel heard the sound of steps on the porch and the door opened and as the cold burst of wind came through the door, so did Daddy!  He smelled of smoke and was very dirty and looked very tired.  Mama gave him a big hug and a cup of hot coffee and told him to sit down, and tell what had happened.  He took a long swig of the hot coffee, reached a blackened hand for the ginger cookies and leaned back in his chair.  "The fire started with their tree, we think.  The house is not a total loss, but the living room is pretty much gone, and all of their Christmas." He looked right in Mama's eyes when he said that, and Angel saw the tears well up there.  "Will they be alright?", Mama asked. "Yes, I think so.  We boarded up what we could, and I drove them over to Kate's mothers house."  Angel remembered Chet's granny's house, it was a one room house on the other side of town.  It would be alright for one old lady but she could couldn't imagine three grownups and two rowdy boys there.  She felt bad for Chet and Charley, their granny was a grumpy, mean old lady, even Christmas didn't seem to make her happy.  While she had been lost in her own thoughts Daddy had washed up and had pulled out the brown paper bag with the popcorn in it.  Mama got the needle and thread out for everyone.  The popcorn stringing would go on!  Every year the family would string strands of fresh popped corn and wrap them around the Christmas tree.  It was so much fun, and the house smelled so wonderful! Sometimes, it took a long time, because as much went in the belly as went on the tree.  The metal corn poppers were ready at the fire place, and Daddy filled two of them with corn kernels.  He set them both over the fire and began to shake them.  "Angel, do you know what is so special about popcorn?", he asked.  She shook her head and looked up at him.  "This, pan on the right has regular corn in it, and the one on the left has popcorn it it, let's see what happens"  After several minutes the pan on the right began to smell burned and Daddy pulled it out of the flames. When he opened the pan, the kernels were still small and hard, but burned up. While the one on the right began to make popping sounds and fill the air with the wonderful sweet aroma of fresh popped corn.  The lid on the pan began to lift as the corn expanded and filled the pan to overflowing.  The popping sounds started out slow and then got faster and faster and faster.

"Popcorn has a very special drop of water inside each kernel, the heat causes the water to expand and explode turning the kernel inside out.  That small hard kernel turns into something sweet and delicious and beautiful.  God put that special drop of water into the popcorn.  Just like He put the Living Water into His people.  When God's people are placed in situations where they are put under pressure and it seems like their situations are to hot to handle, a miracle happens.  They seem to explode with love for each other, the hardness in them blossoms into a sweet softness, their hearts grow ten times bigger than they were before.  That which seemed to have very little value has become something that brings a sweet aroma to your senses, a salty taste to your tongue, and beauty to your eyes."  He began to string the popcorn onto the thread Mama had given him.  "The Chaneys are Popcorn People, they will be just fine."

Mama began to put paper chains and strings of popcorn back into the boxes they came out of. all but the very special hand made ornaments went back too.  Daddy pulled the truck up close to the porch and we loaded up the tree and the boxes of ornaments, Mama's cookies, and  Mama went into her closet and came out with some packages in bright wrapping paper, she made some new tags and placed them in a wicker basket to go into the truck.  Grandpa carried Sister up to bed.  Mama bent down to Angel and ask if she wanted to go with them.  Angel watched her beautiful tree go into the truck with a twinge of regret.  She grabbed her coat, ran back to her room to get her new sling shot, Chet would like that, and got in the truck.  She was one of the Popcorn People too.


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 “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”

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― George Washington

 “The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

 “But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

                                                                                                                                                                     

 “Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.”

― Beth Johnson

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― Karl Popper

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― Brian Tracy

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― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game: Collector's Edition

“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...

But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'

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― Xiaolu Guo

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― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup

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― Natsuki Takaya

“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

 “To become one who believes two become one, you need love in your life.”                                  12

“She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?”

― Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic

 “At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
”

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 “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

― Brian Tracy

 “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”

― Karl Lagerfeld

 “We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.”

― Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

 “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”

― Socrates

“I may be alive now, but in a series of moments I won’t be. And let it be said about me: He didn’t waste his time talking to conch shells, but he did listen to what they had to say about the ocean.”

― Jarod Kintz

 “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

― Desiderius Erasmus

 “With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.”

― Johnny Depp

 “It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

― William Saroyan

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― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country

 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

― John Dewey                                                                                                                                   12

 “When you make a choice, you change the future.”

― Deepak Chopra

 “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

― Socrates

 “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

― Walt Whitman

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

 “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

― Alexander Pope

 “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

 “Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.”

― Paulo Coelho

 “Chase away sorrow by living”

― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

 “More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them”

― Harold J. Smith

 “Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

― C.S. Lewis

 “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

― Kahlil Gibran

 “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”

― C.G. Jung

 “The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. ”

― C.S. Lewis

 “If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that

you want to be like.”                                                                                                                           14

 “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”

― Karl Lagerfeld

 “The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.”

― Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita: El Canto del Senor

 “The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you

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― Brian Tracy

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― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

 “well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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― Charlotte Brontë

“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much

Just remember two main rules for the beginning:

You better starve, than eat whatever

And better be alone, than with whoever.”

― Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat

 “You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.”

― Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind of Girl

 “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

― Oscar Wilde                                                                                                                       10

“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this -- and much more than this is true -- why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us--why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.

Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

 “Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."

As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”

― Lorraine Heath, Surrender to the Devil

 “I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”

― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

 “I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. ”

― Marilyn Manson

“My next breath may very well be in your lungs. Store it wisely, because my life depends on it.
”

― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

 “Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.”

― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye        

                       

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

― Elbert Hubbard

 “He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.”

― Lao Tzu

 “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”

― Gary L. Francione                                                   10

 “What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.

Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.

This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again. ”

― Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

 “It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”

― Jaeda DeWalt

 “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”

― Isaac Asimov

“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”

― Gary L. Francione

 “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”

― Deepak Chopra

 “God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.”

― Merritt Y. Hughes, Ten Perspectives on Milton

 “We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

 “I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”

― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

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 “There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.”

― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

 “When in doubt, choose to live.”

― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

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 “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. [Verse 223]”

― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”

― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

 “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 “If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.”

― Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

 “You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”

― Viggo Mortensen

 “Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”

― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

 “Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”

― Douglas Coupland

 “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”

― Brian Tracy

 “Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”

― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

 “I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's

greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending

commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may

sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their

dreams from those who live in regret.”

― Anthony Robbins

 “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

― Brian Tracy

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