Star Trek -- Spock Loved JIM’S Name! 1966 (The Real Story) Lawn Dart Accident

Spock and Jim enjoyed each other as actors and laughed a lot. They were very good friends and swam a lot in the summers together and played darts. Jim or William Shatner loved playing Lawn Darts but that’s what hindered Billy Shatner and Leonard Simon Nimoy’s continuance of a relationship. “Kirk” tossed a Lawn Dart, a large yellow Lawn Dart, toward Nimoy while playing a game at Nimoy’s home in Boston when the Lawn Dart veered into the sun, causing Nimoy to loss sight of the yellowish of the Dart used in the Lawn. The Lawn Dart had been tip loaded for greater accuracy and weighed over 14 pounds. Upon striking Nimoy in the skull, Nimoy shouted, “Aww Hell!” and fell into the empty swimming pool in his back patio tundra. Shatner shouted, “Look there, look there! Give that man a cigar!” This statement was out of context and they distanced themselves from one another for a few months largely because Nimoy was in ICU for 2 months.

Ceasing the FRET

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I've heard said that the majority of our fears are irrational to the extent we haul them around even when and particularly when no danger is present.  And might the answer be discovered in the last word of the above sentence?  Present.  The word demands our attention but we too often go with the painfully predictable or the many familiar falsehoods.  

You know you can't change the past but you can ruin the present by trying to.  God gives a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball for forecasting our futures.  Both extremes are banal, nothing but tommyrot!  Also, both conditions are gravely dangerous to twaddle with.  With one foot in yesterday and the other in tomorrow, we straddle the present in an almost concussed dividing of our minds.  

George MacDonald penned the following and it makes profoundly good and common sense:   

“The next hour, the next moment, is as much beyond our grasp and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for the morrow, or for a day in the next thousand years—in neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. Those claims only of the morrow which have to be prepared today are of the duty of today: the moment which coincides with work to be done, is the moment to be minded; the next is nowhere till God has made it.”

Excerpt From: C. S. Lewis. “George MacDonald.”

Read that again for there are excellent reasons for redundancy.  The mind is less apt to wander when in the present.  It's practically impossible to panic while living in the present  -- right NOW!  

Do dogs worry?  Not that I can see.  They aren't aware of yesterday's squabble at the dog park or concerned the same cranky canine might show up tomorrow.  They're quite content with now.  

Could it be that worry is nothing more than a bad habit?  Jesus seemed to think so.  "How will worrying add a single hour to your life span?"  It won't and He knows we know it.  What do we get from worrying?  Some puerile and pitiful feeling of having some control?  Common sense shouts 'Yes' but we are determined to lug and tote yesteryear's regrets and tomorrow if not 10 years from NOW along as a soldier bears the weight of his Rucksack!  

"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."

"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."

"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."

"Just for today, I will not worry and be happy."

Remember, there's often a very good reason for redundancy.

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