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To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

— Martha Nussbaum

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On This Day In:
2022	Good AND / OR Bad
2021	And Fields Of Green
	Success Has Been So Easy (Don’t You Want Me)
2020	Build It To Last
	Thumpin’ Bass (Get The Funk Out Ma Face)
2019	30 Day Health / Weight Update (Oct 2019)
	When Reason Comes
2018	One Of The Great Ones
2017	Mirror In The Oval Office
	True Courage
2016	What’s Your Excuse?
2015	Some Meaningful Resemblance
2014	Bloom
	Orange October (VII) – The Giants Win The Pennant!!
2013	Walking The Walk
2012	Legacy Of Star Trek (TOS)
2011	Tolerating The Intolerant
	Passionate Germs
2010	Giants Win Game 1 In Philly (4 to 3)!!

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We’re afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, ‘What a jerk!’ It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia

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On This Day In:
2023	Courage To Love
2022	Pass A Voting Rights Act For Democracy’s Sake
2021	Tomorrow President Biden Starts Wrestling
	Good-Bye #45 (The Tears Of A Clown)
2020	The Burden Of Faith
	On To Superbowl LIV (54)!!
2019	Are Your Dogs Barking?
	Dangerous Waistcoats
2018	And 40+ Years Later?
2017	He Is Alone
2016	Compensation
2015	Charlie Redux
2014	The Crux
2013	Erosion And Rechannelling
	Alliance, n.
2012	How Many Thought… (One I Know Of)
	Choices And Decisions
2011	Speed Spoils
	Simply Intended
2010	A Second 4 Hour Jog

Leadership is not about power. It’s not about control; it’s about helping people live according to the vision.

— Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges

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On This Day In:
2022	My Conservative View
2021	Are We Getting Close To Uncertainty?
	How It Could Be
2020	Two Loves
	A Short Count
2019	Don’t Forget: Fire Burns
2018	Especially In The Middle East
2017	A Good Local
2016	Life Unlimited
2015	Still Trying
2014	Destiny, n.
2013	No Apologies
2012	Utterly Convinced
2011	A Key To Effectiveness

Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.

— Claude Elwood Shannon

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On This Day In:
2023	Near The Heart Of The World
	NFL This Weekend: Six Games In Three Days!
2022	Limited Knowledge And No Control
2021	Gifts
	Look Inside Your Heart (Higher Love)
2020	A Strength Of Science
2019	A Higher Standard
	Make Two Calls
2018	Irreplaceable Sparks
2017	Saving For April 15th
2016	First Wish
2015	Tracing Shadows
2014	One Thing
2013	More Is Less
2012	The Screw-Up Gene

Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.

— Alain de Botton

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On This Day In:
2023	Old Math: It’s Actually Two
2022	For An Extended Period
2021	Surrender With Hope
	A Little Grace (La Bamba)
2020	Two Midway
	Invisible Hands
2019	Speaking Of #45
2018	A Higher Loyalty
	RIP – Our Silver Lady
2017	Slowly Cutting Their Own Throats
2016	Man’s Advantage Over God
2015	Deeply
2014	Hi-Yo Silver, Away!
2013	Warning:
2012	Thinking About Beauty
2011	A Founding Father’s Argument Against Public Funding Of Religious Education
	Weekend Update
	So Far, So Good

Of all men’s miseries, the bitterest is this, to know so much and have control over nothing.

— Herodotus.

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On This Day In:
2022	Take Time
2021	A Loss Of Happiness
	Early Boy Band Choreography (I’m Telling You Now)
2020	Wear A Damn Mask!
	I Can’t Stay For Long (Tears In Heaven)
	Boxing (#2): First Lessons
2019	A Surprisingly Good Way
	It’s Official X-mas (Tree) At Home
2018	Weight / Health Update
	What’s Happening With You?
2017	The Great Leveler
	Conservative Depressions
2016	Election + 1 Month
2015	Dance And Sing
2014	A Measuring Stick For Progress
2013	Courtly Love Or Victory Over Habit
2012	Have We Met?
2011	Efficiently Useless

Writers are specialized cells in the social organism. They are evolutionary cells. Mankind is trying to become something else; it’s experimenting with new ideas all the time. And writers are a means of introducing new ideas into the society, and also a means of responding symbolically to life. I don’t think we’re in control of what we do.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
From his book: “Wampeters, Foma And Granfalloons“

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On This Day In:
2022	Seeking The Same Thing
2021	Climate Change Deniers
	We Don’t Listen Anyway (Time Has Come Today)
2020	Nothing New Here
	Talk To Me (What’s Going On?)
	Register And Vote
2019	Love And Leave
2018	Smiling If Not Laughing
2017	Chilled And Smooth
2016	But Sometimes You Have To Stand In Front
2015	The Key Shift
2014	Remember ISIS / ISIL?
2013	What Have You Done Lately?
2012	B8
2011	I’m Definitely Not In Control

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the area where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome and the linkage between effect and cause is hidden from us.

— Peter L. Bernstein
From his book: “Against The Gods“

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On This Day In:
2023	In The Beginning…
2022	I Learn Something New
2021	I’m Retired, I Always Have Time For It!
	Just Mice Elf (Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin])
	That Was A Shot In The Arm
2020	Decide, Support, Vote
2019	Aware Some
2018	Know Any Christians?
2017	The Only Thing I Can Give…
2016	Wiser But Less Cocksure
2015	Not Today
	Wicked
2014	…Am Too
2013	Credible?
2012	Both
2011	Risking Hidden Linkage