Impeach 45: Make America Great Again

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
—    John W. Gardner
[Let’s start with the rule of law.  It would make for a great start…    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023	Thanks For The Visit!
	Another Reason I Won’t Support #45 In 2024
2022	For A While
2021	The Cautionary Tale Of 6 January 2021
	When I Needed Sunshine (I’m A Believer)
2020	65K
	Burst Buds
	Faux News Viewers
2019	Tomorrow’s Bread
2018	Impeach 45: Make America Great Again
2017	Training Shoulders
2016	You Just Have To Care
	Day 4 – Blending
2015	My Slow Education
2014	Great Service
2013	You Really Should Wear More Sweaters
	Here I Am God
2012	The Serenity Prayer
2011	The Victory Of Life

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Undeniable Requirement

To open ourselves to the truth and to bring ourselves face to face with our personal and collective reality is not an option that can be accepted or rejected.  It is an undeniable requirement of all people and all societies that seek to humanize themselves and to be free.
—    Bishop Jan Gerardi
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On This Day In:
2023	And I Always Will
2022	What You Know
2021	Some Doctors Are Better Than Others
	Lessons (Love Don’t Love Nobody)
2020	A Liar As President Corrupts Us
2019	Is It Dark And Quiet For You?
2018	Undeniable Requirement
2017	Orange Corrosion
2016	Both Particle And Wave
2015	Deep In Debt
2014	The Difference
2013	My Heart Is Described
2012	Keen To Be Alone
2011	The Ideal Business…
2010	55

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Nothing

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
—    Thomas Jefferson
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On This Day In:
2023	Squeeze Your Opportunity
2022	Completely Reasonable To Worry
2021	Seeking Happiness
	Check Your Watch (Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is)
2020	Expectation For The Near Future
2019	Indian Myth
	Did He Even Have The Courage To Ask?
2018	Nothing
2017	Approval First
2016	In Search Of Words
	Day 2 – Blending
2015	At What Price?
2014	Intricate And Subtle Order
2013	Attention To Detail
2012	Aequanimitas!
2011	Consider This

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A Gardening Goal: Feed The Flowers

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
—    Daphne Rose Kingma
Do not take life too seriously.  You will never get out of it alive.
—    Elbert Hubbard
I am not what I ought to be.  I am not what I want to be.  I am not what I hope to be.  But still, I am not what I used to be.  And by the grace of God, I am what I am.
—    John Newton
[Hopefully, one year closer to reaching the garden with a smile and content with where I am…   Happy Birthday to me!    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023	Sometimes Once Can Be Enough
2022	The Air Is Thinner, But It’s A Killer View
2021	Staying Young While Getting Old
	Mid-Afternoon (Hopefully) (Fill The World With Love)
2020	Still Measuring (My Next Thirty Years)
2019	Living On The Couch
	Who Am I – One Interpretation
2018	A Gardening Goal: Feed The Flowers
2017	Freakishly Happy Cowboy (The Cowboy In Me)
2016	One More, Please (Life In One Day)
2015	Infinite Adventure
2014	Unpaved
2013	Headstones
2012	Keeping Young
2011	Lessons Well Learned

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Small Things

To me, God and compassion are one and the same.  Compassion is the joy of sharing.  It’s doing small things for the love of each other – just a smile, or carrying a bucket of water, or showing some simple kindness.  These are the small things that make up compassion.
—    Mother Teresa
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On This Day In:
2023	Time And Chance
2022	One Hour Per Year
2021	If You’re A Lucky 11 Year Old
	Just Got To Be (People Got To Be Free)
	Masked Countdown And Gratitude
2020	Democratic Aspiration
2019	Soul Before Will
2018	Small Things
2017	Clear And Warm To Me
2016	Ripple
2015	Amazing Or Full Of Wonder?
2014	Are You Confused?
2013	But The Odds Are Against It
2012	Far Better Off With Books
2011	Timid And Fainthearted

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United States

Seek what unites, not what divides.
—    Pope John XXIII
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
—    Vesta M. Kelly
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On This Day In:
2023	Folk Guitar
	Then We Probably Don’t Really Agree
2022	A Whole New Kind
2021	Yea, Spring!
	Smile On Your Brother (Get Together)
2020	Spoken And Shared
2019	Real Tools
	Three Cruelties
2018	United States
2017	Out Of Luck
2016	Wavelengths Of The Earth
2015	God Said What To You?
2014	Not Saying
2013	Ears And Tongue
2012	The Story Of Joe (Middle-Class Republican)
2011	Happy Birthday, Diana
	Depending On Kindness

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It’s About Heart Not Skill

There are days when you can’t get the ball in the basket, no matter how hard you try.  But there is no excuse for not playing good defense.
—    An Anonymous Basketball Coach
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On This Day In:
2023	The End As We Fear It
2022	Understanding True Achievement
2021	Avoiding Corners
	Nobody Knows (Nobody Knows It But Me)
	A Novel War
2020	First Buds
	To Fly
2019	What If Nobody Believes Them Either
2018	It’s About Heart Not Skill
2017	Winning So Much I’m Already Tired Of It (Not)
2016	Punishing Red Binge
2015	Bits In The Soup
2014	More Beef, Less Bull
2013	Where Are Your Mountains
2012	Spherical Knowledge Of Hamsters
2011	Taking Stock Over Time

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Happy Birthday, Bro!

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one;  for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character.
—    Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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On This Day In:
2023	What My Dog Thinks About Her Daily Walk… (The 59th Street Bridge Song, Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast)
	Still Sunny
2022	Following His Own Path
2021	Show A Brother Some Love
	Beyond Words (Classical Gas)
2020	Especially You, Bro
	Words Without Explanation
2019	Enjoy!
2018	Happy Birthday, Bro!
2017	Love Can Change The World In A Minute (What Do I Know)
2016	60, Little Bro!
2015	Vision and Courage
2014	58 – Little Bro
2013	New Adventures And Old Hopes
	Caving In
2012	Bits And Bobs And Birthdays
	Always Hope
2011	Wet Snow And Long Hills

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Wondering About #45

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
—    Jonathan Swift
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On This Day In:
2023	Ditto For A Good Spouse And Their Love
2022	Putin’s Objective In Ukraine?
2021	It’s 12 O’clock Somewhere
	The Way It Is (Get On Up / Sex Machine)
2020	And #IncompetentDonald Weakens It
2019	Morning Mirror
2018	Wondering About #45
2017	A Prayer For London
2016	Don’t Default
2015	Her Pilgrim Soul
2014	Three Observations
2013	Robbed Again
2012	Good Hearts
2011	Interesting Reading
	What Are You Lookin’ At?

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Two: A Current President With Both

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
—   Theodore Roosevelt
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On This Day In:
2023	One’s Seal Of Approval
2022	Make It Easy
	On A Lighter Note
2021	I Hope Not
	Diggin’ It (Grazing In The Grass)
2020	Organized Skepticism
2019	An Interest In Life
2018	Two: A Current President With Both
2017	Watch This Space
2016	Beyond The Foundation
2015	Become An Affliction
2014	Just Setting Out
2013	Scott’s Inscription
2012	Good Knowledge
2011	Social Safety Nets

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Does Fatalism Equal Mental Health?

Living healthily is nothing less than arriving at old age accepting one’s one and only life cycle as that something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted of no substitution.
—    Erik Erikson
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On This Day In:
2023	In Good Company
2022	One World (Our Only Place)…
2021	Move The Heart
	Join Hands (Love Train)
2020	He Broke Even (The Gambler)
	Whoever / Whatever
2019	The Right Anger
	Another P&P Review
2018	Does Fatalism Equal Mental Health?
2017	Choice
2016	Growing Worlds
2015	Change The Tide
	Martyr, n.
2014	You, Too!
2013	Bitter Stand
2012	Lost For Words
2011	On Market Reactions…

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A Message To The “Wanna Be” Dictator On Leadership

An American president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.
—    Republican Sen. John McCain
On Tuesday (20 March 2018), the senior GOP senator from Arizona criticized US President Donald Trump for congratulating Vladimir Putin on being reelected as president of Russia.
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On This Day In:
2023	Handle It, Handle It…
2022	Seek Good
2021	Aging Well
	Now And Forever (Let It Be Me)
2020	Always
2019	#45 Is More Of A Piddle Than A Puddle
2018	Found Out
	A Message To The “Wanna Be” Dictator On Leadership
2017	Still Waiting…
2016	Same Old, Same Old
2015	Shout!
2014	I Hear Voices
2013	Ethics And Standards
2012	Swing Higher
2011	Convicted For Life

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Found Out

The measure of people’s real character is what they would do if they knew they would never be found out.
—    J.C. Macauley
[For a certain President, it’s who are you going to try to fire to avoid being found out.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023	Handle It, Handle It…
2022	Seek Good
2021	Aging Well
	Now And Forever (Let It Be Me)
2020	Always
2019	#45 Is More Of A Piddle Than A Puddle
2018	Found Out
	A Message To The “Wanna Be” Dictator On Leadership
2017	Still Waiting…
2016	Same Old, Same Old
2015	Shout!
2014	I Hear Voices
2013	Ethics And Standards
2012	Swing Higher
2011	Convicted For Life

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Some Men Make Their Office As Small As Themselves

A life spent centering only on itself will in the end occupy a very, very small universe.
—   Former Senator and Former Astronaut John Glenn
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On This Day In:
2023	Prior Reflection (I Hope)
2022	Be Someone For Somebody
2021	Genius (And Other Details)
	I Don’t Know Why (I’m In A Hurry)
	Going Into The Deep End
2020	Repercussions For Health
2019	Chained To #45
2018	Some Men Make Their Office As Small As Themselves
2017	Too Many
2016	Not Yet, Anyway
2015	On Pornography
2014	Nudge, Nudge
2013	The Journey Will Be Joy
2012	Hopeful Flights
2011	Irrationally Predictable
	Lawful Restraint

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Except When It Is From The Oval Office

It is that little bit of insanity that keeps us all sane.
—    Kevin Cunningham
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On This Day In:
2023	Good Reading
2022	How About: Just Be Kind…
2021	Try To Choose Wisely
	Found It (Oakland Stroke)
2020	We Have A Window
2019	No Escape
2018	Except When It Is From The Oval Office
2017	Bad Karma
2016	Poor Management Choices
2015	Is It Still Dark Out?
2014	Rule One
2013	Spelling God’s Name
2012	Love Your Life And Sing
	Feeling Under the Weather?
2011	Cheers, Friend!

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