How does a lapse of faith occur? Very simply: one begins to live like everybody else. | |
— Leo Tolstoy | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | The Ultimate Trial |
2017 | Vain Expectations |
2016 | Or Of One Thought |
2015 | What’s In Your Future? |
2014 | Light In Darkness |
2013 | How ‘Bout Just Obeying The Law? |
2012 | Or Maybe Not |
2011 | My Interval Is Too Short! |
Archive for May, 2019
Walking The Lonely Path
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, Leo Tolstoy, Philosophy, Quotes on May 31, 2019| 5 Comments »
Accustomed To It
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Anthony De Mello, Philosophy, Quotes, Teaching, Truth, Turning 45 on May 30, 2019| 2 Comments »
“I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.” | |
“Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?” | |
“I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?” | |
“You will have grown accustomed to it.” | |
— Anthony De Mello | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Booking My Trip Into The Expanding Universe |
2017 | Fear Instead Of Convictions |
2016 | Memorial Day – 2016 |
2015 | A Handful Of Reviews |
And You Can Quote Me | |
2014 | Get Wisdom |
2013 | Enjoying The View? |
2012 | Adam’s Rib |
2011 | I’m Sure I Remember That… |
Memorial Day, 2011 | |
Still Tearing, Still Being Rewarded
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Certainty, Comfort, Philosophy, Quotes, Simone de Beauvoir, Truth on May 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me. | |
— Simone de Beauvoir | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Nothing More, Nothing Less |
2017 | Memorial Day – 2017 |
No Wonder I’m Smiling | |
2016 | Thinking Science Fictional |
2015 | Dawn Is Coming |
2014 | Back When I Was A Firebrand |
2013 | Pen In Hand |
Word Up! | |
2012 | Disturbing |
Trying To Keep Up | |
2011 | Unreliable And Selective |
2010 | Adult-Onset Athlete |
But I’m Well Past 100 By Now
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Errors, Meister Eckhart, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth on May 28, 2019| 9 Comments »
No one can attain the truth without a hundred errors along the way. | |
— Meister Eckhart | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Learn |
Land Of The Free, Because Of The Brave | |
4 Appearances In A Row, 4 Wins To Go | |
2017 | And Yet I’m Still Having Fun |
2016 | I See Coincidence Everywhere |
CA3: Civil War | |
2015 | I Resemble That Remark… (5!) |
2014 | The Writer’s Dilemma |
2013 | Just Paying The Rent |
2012 | Remembering… |
2011 | A Little Farther |
Take A Few Minutes To Remember
Posted in History, Philosophy, tagged History, Images, Memorial Day – 2019, Philosophy on May 27, 2019| 1 Comment »
[On this holiday (especially), we should all take a few minutes to pause and to remember those who gave their lives in our defense. A grateful nation remembers… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | You Cannot Pretend |
2017 | A Long Shadow |
2016 | Learning, Experience, Chances or Money |
2015 | The Critical State |
2014 | Dawn, n. |
2013 | Ouch! |
2012 | Just Lookin’ Around |
Still Growing | |
2011 | But Do You Want To? |
A Defense Of Liberty
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Alana Abramson, Brian Bennett, Constitution, Duty, Impeachment, Liberty, Molly Ball, Philip Elliott, Politics, Quotes, The Path To Impeachment, Time Magazine, U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler on May 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
“We are not going to rule it out or in,” Nadler tells TIME. “If our duty is to do it, we will do it. If it’s not, we won’t. Impeachment is not a punishment. It is not a political act to say we think it’s a good idea to get rid of the President. Impeachment is a defense of the Constitution, a defense of liberty. It’s a very blunt sword that should only be drawn if absolutely necessary. But it may be.” | |
— Representative Jerry Nadler | |
From an article written by: Molly Ball (with reporting by: Alana Abramson, Brian Bennett and Philip Elliott) | |
The article is titled: “The Path To Impeachment“ | |
The article appears in Time Magazine, dtd: 25 March 2019 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | And Blog To Word Up To The Universe |
The Irony Of Greed | |
2017 | Or Revisiting A Blog Site |
2016 | Alas, Too Often The Latter |
2015 | Either / Or |
2014 | Memorial Day – 2014 |
Perfection | |
2013 | Memorial Day Video |
Equal = Equal | |
2012 | Congrats, Nephew!! |
Doggie Vision Networks | |
The Flash: Omnibus | |
JLI: vol 1 | |
Flash: Rebirth | |
Burning Images | |
What Do You Believe? | |
2011 | Are We Still At War With The Poor? |
Kingslanding
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Abigail Van Buren, Ashes, Fire, GOT, Kingslanding, Philosophy, Quotes on May 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes. | |
— Abigail Van Buren | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | I’d Bet On Taxes |
Ooops! I Spoke Too Soon | |
2017 | A Cautionary Wish |
2016 | Slogging |
It’s About… | |
Man / Man | |
2015 | Memorial Day – 2015 |
Content People Love To Share | |
2014 | I Resemble That Remark |
2013 | Long Range Exploration |
2012 | UBI |
2011 | Opportunity |
I Struggle With One At A Time
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Confucius, Earnestness, Generosity, Gravity, Kindness, Perfect Virtue, Philosophy, Quotes, Sincerity on May 24, 2019| 1 Comment »
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue. These five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. | |
— Confucius | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | An Infectious Political Cancer |
Site Update / Poems Page Evolution | |
2017 | Our Thirst |
2016 | History Favors The Victor |
2015 | This We’ll Leave Them |
2014 | Sounds Like Faux News To Me |
2013 | Reasons |
2012 | American Libertarianism |
2011 | The Goal |
I Don’t Know Truth, Either
Posted in Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth, Yogi Berra, Yogi-ism on May 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know. | |
— Yogi Berra | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | An Approaching Disgrace |
2017 | Liberty, Collusion, History And The Republican Majority |
2016 | But I Have Too Many Questions |
2015 | A New Friend |
2014 | Do I Have To Fall In Love? |
2013 | More Democracy, Please |
2012 | Speaking Of Love |
2011 | Limits |
#Impeach45: Halt The Slide Into Tryanny
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #Impeach45, Beginning, Joan Chittister, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Preventing Tryanny, Quotes, Stopping, Vision on May 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »
We need the kind of vision that tells us when to stop something as well as when to begin something. | |
— Joan Chittister | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Expecting Profit |
2017 | In Spite Of The President |
2016 | And Sets |
And My God For His Graces | |
2015 | About Character |
2014 | Your Gain |
2013 | Look Up |
2012 | Count Me In |
2011 | Pirates Four, Three Songs |
Sir Charles | |
Look First, Not Last | |
2010 | Par-a-diddle |
Hungry For Trust
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged A Balancing Act, A Divided Country, David Muir, Freedom Of The Press, Karl Vick, Politics, Quotes, Time Magazine, time.com, TV News, World News Tonight's David Muir Wants to Earn Your Trust - One Broadcast at a Time on May 21, 2019| Leave a Comment »
“I think that in this era, where people are really hungry for someone that they can trust and a team they can trust, that it’s just something they sense in their gut,” Muir says. “And we go out there and try to earn that trust every single night. And we’re not perfect. One of the great gifts of this job is that you can go out the next night and give it your best shot again. But we never forget that we’re reporting to a divided country.” | |
The challenge, he says, when “half the country is saying give the guy a break and the other half of the country is still saying how on earth could this happen and how much longer will it last,” is to hear both sides without being identified with either. “We do this balancing act every night of trying to signal to an audience we hear you, we’re asking questions for you.” | |
— Karl Vick (quoting David Muir) | |
From his article / interview: “World News Tonight’s David Muir Wants to Earn Your Trust, One Broadcast at a Time“ | |
Time Magazine, dtd: 27 August 2018 | |
Online interview at: http://time.com/5368871/david-muir-world-news-tonight/ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Mutual Assistance |
2017 | The Toughest Job |
2016 | Congratulations!! |
Better Yet, Read! | |
2015 | Even If It Kills Us Slowly |
2014 | Fun To Play God |
Of Anything | |
2013 | Legal (Almost) |
2012 | Great Scots! |
2011 | The GI Bill – A Simple History Lesson |
Breaking Even | |
Happy Meeting Day 35 (And Counting)
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Family History, Included Video, Videos, tagged Could It Be I'm Falling In Love -- Music Video, Family, Happy 35th (Meeting) Anniversary, Happy Meeting Day - 2019, Included Video, The Spinners, YouTube.com on May 19, 2019| 2 Comments »
Thirty-Five years ago I met the love of my life… | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Happy Meeting Day 34 (And Counting) |
Storytelling | |
2017 | Happy Meeting Day 33 (And Counting) |
2016 | Picture Perfect |
2015 | Life Showed Compassion |
2014 | And Then I Met Her |
2013 | Defining Maleness |
The Run Continues | |
2012 | All Set |
2011 | Not Always |
Unless One Is Nearing A Problematic Presidential Election
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #IncompetentTrump, Opinions, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Swords, Ulysses S. Grant, War on May 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. | |
— Ulysses S. Grant | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Happy Meeting Day 34 (And Counting) |
Storytelling | |
2017 | Happy Meeting Day 33 (And Counting) |
2016 | Picture Perfect |
2015 | Life Showed Compassion |
2014 | And Then I Met Her |
2013 | Defining Maleness |
The Run Continues | |
2012 | All Set |
2011 | Not Always |