Rous., may I inquire just which version of the OED you used, Dear? I got this in e-mail the other day, and it fits here:

> >>As I've said for quite a while, Life is just two things:
Attitude and Cash Flow.
>>READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN. THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START
>YOUR DAY TOMORROW.
> >>Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good
> >>mood and always has something positive to say.

When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I
> >>were any better, I would be twins!"
> >>He was a natural motivator.
> >>If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the
> >>employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
> >>Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to
> >>Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all
> >>of the time.
> >>How do you do it?"
> >>Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you
> >>have two choices today.
> >>You can choose to be in a good mood or .. you can choose to be in a
> >>bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood.
> >>Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or.. I
> >>can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
> >>Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept
> >>their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I
> >>choose the positive side of life.
> >>"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
> >>"Yes, it is," Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you
> >>cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice.
> >>You choose how you react to situations.
> >>You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good
> >>mood or bad mood.
> >>The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."
> >>I reflected on what Michael said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower
> >>Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often
> >>thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to
> >>it.
> >>Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious
> >>accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
> >>
> >>After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was
> >>released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
> >>I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him
> >>how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see
> >>my scars?"
> >>
> >>I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone
> >>through his mind as the accident took place.
> >>
> >>"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my
> >>soon to be born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground,
> >>I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or ...I
> >>could choose to die. I chose to live."
> >>
> >>"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Michael
> >>continued, "...the paramedics were great."
> >>
> >>They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled
> >>me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors
> >>and nurses, got really scared. In their eyes, I read "he's a dead man.
> >>I knew I needed to take action."
> >>
> >>"What did you do?" I asked.
> >>
> >>"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said
> >>Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything.
> >>
> >>"Yes, I replied." The doctors and nurses stopped working as they
> >>waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, "Gravity."
> >>
> >>Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate
> >>on me as if I am alive, not dead."
> >>
> >>Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because
> >>of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the
> >>choice to live fully.
> >>
> >>Attitude, after all, is everything.
> >>
> >>"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
> >>about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
> >>
> >>After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.