There comes a time for each Rotarian who is sent

To provide some service – ah a Rotary moment.!

The service is always our special goal

The project really is, a Rotarian's role

For me it could have been a Mexican site

For a cataract clinic to erase  a blight

To remove the cataracts to let in the light.

The happiness they felt to be able to see

Was certainly a real joy to me.

Or it could have been a visit to a club in Brazil

Whose aid certainly helped us fulfill

Getting wheelchairs to people there

A sign that Rotary really does care.

Our club, Santa Barbara Sunrise

Gave a Paul Harris-a real surprise

To our partner in the enterprise.

But I have to say the very best

Which paled in significance to all the rest

It was to India that we did go

Helping with a NID, you know

To work with them to eradicate polio

They did not need us to fly thousands of miles

Giving drops on the tongues of the children with smiles

but as ambassadors to encourage to keep going

To create awareness in their knowing

These efforts will someday make India polio free

We witnessed so much -- the extreme poverty

Despite their difficulties and such trials

We saw hope in their radiant smiles.

It gives me pause to thank God for our visit there

This Rotary moment with you I now share.

A fellow in a bar notices a woman, always alone, come in on a fairly regular basis. After the second week, he made his move.
"No thank you." she said politely. "This may sound rather odd in this day and age, but I'm keeping myself pure until I meet the man I love."
"That must be rather difficult." the man replied.
"Oh, I don't mind too much." she said. "But, it has my husband pretty upset."

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A lawyer and his wife and 12 children needed to move as his rental agreement was coming to an end but he was having difficulty in finding a new home.
When he said he had 12 children, no one would rent a home to him because they believed that the children would destroy the home.
He could not say that he had no children, he could not lie, after all, lawyers cannot and do not lie. So, he had an idea: he sent his wife for a walk to the cemetery with 11 children.
He took the remaining one with him to see homes with the Real Estate Agent. He liked one of the homes and the agent asked: "How many children do you have?”
He answered: "12 children”.
The agent asked "Where are the others?
The lawyer answered, with a sad look, "They are in the cemetery with their mother”.
And that's the way he was able to rent a home for his family without lying.
The MORAL is: It is not necessary to lie, one only has to choose the right words.
 
Lawyers don't lie ...they are creative ....

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At the wedding reception someone yelled...
"Would all the married men, please stand next to the one person who has made their life worth living."
The bartender was almost crushed to death.