Best Wishes For 2014!

Here’s to you, my blog readers,
Give of yourselves…
Love others (and tell them often)…
Enjoy long walks (preferably) while holding someone’s hand, nutritious food and candle-light meals, good reading, music which touches your soul, and quiet moments for reflection…
Look forward (Hope), while living in the moment (Enjoy), and not forgetting the past (Memories)…
May you have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014!
Please have a happy (and safe) New Year’s Eve!
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On This Day In:
2012	My Creed
2011	It Probably Isn’t So

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Be

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution.  Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
—   Tina Fey
From her book: “Bossypants“
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On This Day In:
2012	The Only Way to Win
2011	Honest Writing

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At Least One Difference

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
—    Oscar Levant
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On This Day In:
2012	Are We, Are We?
	On Not Playing The Game
	Scale
2011	Nutcracker And Nooks
	Seeing Differences

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Risking Truth

…I intend to speak of my faith and my people as well as I can, and I will tell the truth.
One note on style: if I sometimes write here with a light hand, it is not because I am the less serious in what I say.  It is no service to the reader to load him with technical jargon to convince him that my words have weight.  I have risked being as clear and pleasant as I could, and I have worked very hard for clarity.
—    Herman Wouk
From the Prologue to his book:  “This Is My God“
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On This Day In:
2012	Working On Reality
2011	Massive Contradictory Changes

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Both

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
—    Joseph Addison
[Musta been talkin’ ’bout Rush Limbaugh…    —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	That’s Success!
2011	Losing At Dominos
2010	1,001

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Are You Helping?

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
—    Edward R. Murrow
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On This Day In:
2012	Inside All Truth Is A Vacuum
2011	So, Whom Are We Trying To Fool Then?

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Merry X-mas – 2013

There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.
—     Albert Einstein
[This quote was originally found on one of the blogs I follow, maintained by Deodatta Shenai-Khatkhate:  Deo Volente  at: (http://dshenai.wordpress.com/)
The actual post is:  http://dshenai.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/insightful-inspirational-quotes-about-life/
Thanks, Deo!   —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Merry Christmas – 2012
2011	I Have Seen

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I Hear Voices

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
—   Napoleon Bonaparte
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On This Day In:
2012	Positive Thoughts
	Hope Works
2011	Look! Up In The Sky…
	Humility Before The Unknowable

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One Standard Deviation

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
—    Frank Zappa
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On This Day In:
2012	High Anxiety
2011	And I’m Taking Me There
2010	1,000

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Who You Are

I understand why we do that now.  It’s a help, not a threat.  It’s something to remind you how important words are.  Ideas are important.  Principles are important.  Words are important.  Your word is the most important of all.  Your word is who you are.
—    Tom Clancy
[Found on a blog I follow: http://dshenai.wordpress.com/
The specific post is:  http://dshenai.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/tribute-to-tom-clancy-with-his-insightful-quotes/
Thanks Deo!   —   KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Mine Stands
2011	Aversions

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Additions

Today I’ve added two song lyrics to my Poems page.  I’ve also updated six more of the ones already on the page to include the YouTube videos.
The additions are: “Lydia – The Tattooed Lady” and “People Got To Be Free“.  The performances are by Groucho Marx, and The Young Rascals, respectively.
Both of these songs are songs which just popped into my head when I woke up and stuck there for the rest of the day.  Both are from my earlier years – the first (“Lydia“) before I understood the “implications” of being a female in the circus and “tattooed”.  While humorously presented, it has a quite serious side.
The second song is from one of my all time favorite groups as an early youth: “The Young Rascals“, later shortened to just “The Rascals“.  These guys had a string of hits, and this is one of my favorites.  I’m sure there will be more to come…
My favorite lines are:
“Ask me my opinion,
My opinion will be
It’s a natural situation
For a man to be free“
The six updates are:
I Am A Rock
Like A Rock
I Hope You Dance
She’s Gone
Like A Rolling Stone
I’m A Believer
If you don’t know these songs or haven’t read the lyrics lately, you owe it to yourself to check them out.  Then you can drop down to the bottom of the page to enjoy the performance.
As always, read the lyrics, enjoy the performances, then go support these artists or the artists of your choice.  Participate in supporting the Arts locally!  Keep Art alive in your community!
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On This Day In:
2012	Telling Her
2011	On Torture

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The Object Of Instruction

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently, and an overloaded curriculum is useless.  The object of instruction is not to produce technicians, but good active minds.
—   André Maurois
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On This Day In:
2012	Telling Her
2011	On Torture

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Trifles

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
—    Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2012	Simple, Ordinary And Wonderous
2011	Humane Writers

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In The Present Day

There once was a time in history when the limitation of governmental power meant increasing liberty for the people.
In the present day the limitation of governmental power, of governmental action, means the enslavement of the people by the great corporations, who can only be held in check through the extension of governmental power.
—    President Theodore Roosevelt
14 September 1912
[Does anybody seriously wonder why I love me some TR???   —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2012	Feeling It
2011	Stretching Science

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Misperceptions

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
—   Oscar Levant
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On This Day In:
2012	Essential Experience
2011	Lest We Forget Those Still In Harm’s Way
	Sound Familiar?

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