The bitter lesson that may be drawn from this tragedy is that eternal vigilance is the price of civilization. A nation must love peace, but keep its powder dry. | |
— Will Durant | |
From his book: “The History of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Start By Trying |
Day 4: Difficult Day | |
2017 | Outlasting Division |
2016 | Said The Man Who Trained To Fight For A Living |
2015 | Tripping On Treasure |
2014 | The Flower Of Light |
2013 | Eye Catching |
2012 | The Holstee Manifesto |
2011 | Three Crooners For The Shower |
The Soldier’s Faith | |
Vacation, Books And Lots Of Movies | |
Archive for July, 2019
What Is True For War Is Also True For Elections
Posted in History, Politics, Quotes, tagged Bitter Lesson, Civilization, Dry Powder, Elections, Eternal Vigilance, History, Peace, Politics, Quotes, The History of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, The Price Of Civilization, Tragedy, Will Durant on July 31, 2019| Leave a Comment »
And I’m Not Letting Go
Posted in Included Video, Poetry, Song Lyrics And Videos By Others, Videos, tagged A Place We Knew -- music video, Dean Lewis, Included Song Lyrics, Included Video, Poems, Vevo on July 30, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A Place We Knew |
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I can picture you now, | |
taking your makeup off | |
You come into my room | |
and you kiss my lips | |
But this hotel life, | |
I’m not used to it | |
And you wear your heart | |
right on your sleeve | |
But it took you a while | |
to open up to me | |
I still love the way | |
that you smile when you leave, | |
mm | |
And I know you get scared | |
when I’m away | |
But I think about you | |
almost all the day, yeah | |
And I promised you that I’d | |
be back again | |
Just can you remember? | |
Oh can you remember when we were | |
Dancing in hotel rooms | |
It was just me and you | |
And we wouldn’t sleep all night | |
With you sitting by my side | |
And every moment | |
we had stolen was a feeling | |
‘Cause it never mattered | |
Where we were, | |
’cause we were falling in love | |
‘Cause your heart is my home, | |
your heart is my home | |
Your heart is my home, | |
and I’m not letting go | |
When I was feeling down, | |
you always picked me up | |
It didn’t matter what | |
I was doing wrong | |
’cause | |
I’ve lived my life without you | |
for too long | |
But when I walked in the door | |
and I saw your face | |
Ooh, I knew in that moment, | |
that my world had changed | |
How can I live my life | |
since you’ve been and gone? | |
But can you remember? | |
Just try to remember when we were | |
Dancing in hotel rooms | |
It was just me and you | |
And we wouldn’t sleep all night | |
With you sitting by my side | |
And every moment | |
we had stolen was a feeling | |
‘Cause it never mattered | |
Where we were, | |
’cause we were falling in love | |
‘Cause your heart is my home, | |
your heart is my home | |
Your heart is my home, | |
and I’m not letting go | |
But in any single moment you can change | |
‘Cause I’ve been gone so long and I can feel you slip away | |
but I’m getting closer and closer | |
Can you remember? | |
Just try to remember when we were | |
Dancing in hotel rooms | |
It was just me and you | |
We wouldn’t sleep all night | |
With you sitting by my side | |
And every moment | |
we had stolen was a feeling | |
‘Cause it never mattered | |
Where we were, | |
’cause we were falling in love | |
‘Cause your heart is my home, | |
your heart is my home | |
Your heart is my home, | |
and I’m not letting go | |
‘Cause your heart is my home, | |
and your heart is my home | |
Your heart is my home, | |
and I’m not letting go | |
‘Cause your heart is my home, | |
and your heart is my home | |
Oh, your heart is my home, | |
and I’m never letting go | |
Performed by: Dean Lewis | |
Songwriters: Dean Lewis, Grant Loaney | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan |
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
And Yet, I Believe
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Quotes, tagged Faith, Illusions, Proof, Quotes, Religious Doctrines, Sigmund Freud on July 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them. | |
— Sigmund Freud | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Beats |
First Step: Starting Cleansing (Again) | |
2017 | Effective Stimuli |
2016 | Dave’s Not Here, Man |
2015 | Blink |
2014 | The Struggle To Educate America Continues… |
2013 | On Elections |
2012 | Warm Smiles |
Pick Your Poison | |
2011 | Straight Shooters |
Speak Up / Call Out
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Free Speech, Martin Luther King Jr, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Silence on July 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. | |
— Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Does Smiling Count? |
2017 | Giving Much |
2016 | Sounds Like Class |
2015 | Inert Ideas |
2014 | Worth Anything? |
2013 | Bruises Before Bed (Or Why You Didn’t Answer) |
Revealed Riches | |
2012 | Extra Gears |
2011 | Say What? |
2010 | Hello Frogs… |
Paint-By-Numbers
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Quotes, tagged Art, Christian Fundamentalists, Faith, Paint-By-Numbers, Quotes, Robin Tyler on July 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. | |
— Robin Tyler | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | #45: Still Trying To |
Oh, Well… | |
2017 | Two Views Of The Starting Line |
2016 | Never Had It, Never Will (Donald Trump) |
2015 | 20/20 |
2014 | All Of My Best Ideas Come While Walking… |
2013 | Learn To Learn |
2012 | I Remind You |
2011 | Respect And Prestige |
2010 | Living Legends (Willie Nelson) and the Gettysburg Address |
The Tragedies Are About To Get Worse
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Bassem Youssef, Columbine, Egypt, Egyptian Politics, Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, Revolution For Dummies, Tragedy on July 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Egypt was living through one tragedy after another. People were killed every day because of something. This became our own Columbine reality on a weekly basis. There was always this challenge of trying to make people laugh amid such terrible circumstances. But what could we do? If we closed up shop every time Egypt lived through another tragedy or unrighteous killing, we might as well not have a show at all. Nonetheless, my team implored me to cancel the show. They were worried about how we would be perceived. I was already stressed out because I still wasn’t used to the timing of a live program and found myself shouting in the control room, “I can’t just go and cancel the show every other episode! This is the country we are living in. Death has become a mere statistic. You will always find trolls who will say to you, how dare you laugh at whatever tragedy is going on in the country. Well, guess what, the tragedies are about to get worse and the trolls will watch us in secret anyways. There are people out there who need this. I am doing the show.” | |
— Bassem Youssef | |
From his book: “Revolution For Dummies“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Plunge |
Time To Meet God | |
2017 | Wealth Within |
2016 | Soaring |
2015 | Gone To The Library… |
2014 | Choose To Lead |
2013 | Not Sent Yet |
2012 | Wall-Crawler Reboot |
Learning To Count | |
On Worshiping God | |
2011 | Emancipated Differences |
2010 | A Little More Technology, Please… |
Happy 10th Anniversary — Thoughts On My First Decade Of Blogging
Posted in General Comments, Quotes, Writing, tagged Excelsior, Happy 10th Blogging Anniversary, Images, Quotes, Resistance Is Futile on July 29, 2019| 9 Comments »
My first decade of viewers…
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