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The net of Heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through.
    —    Chinese Proverb
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On This Day In:
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Never Knowing
2020 In Passing
Look A Little Bit Closer
2019 Especially Mine
90 Day Health / Weight Update (Dec 2019)
2018 And Some Never Do
2017 When We Know We Are Loved
2016 Good Acts
2015 Will You Be Leaving Soon?
2014 Just Long Enough
2013 R.I.P. – Tom Laughlin
Seeking Success?
2012 All Aboard
2011 Sail On, Sailor

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
   —  George Bernard Shaw
[And, a Happy 91st Birthday to my mom!    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022 Guitar Music
Yesterday
2021 Maybe Faith Is Based On Hope
I Want To See You Smile
2020 Thank You (To Those Who Serve)
Hanging In There
2019 Her Job, Too
2018 Just Another Song I Like
Earlier Still
2017 Ten To Go
2016 Unstable Emergence
2015 88
2014 Some One-Liners Are Too Easy
2013 Greatness
2012 Memories Of Arlington
2011 Wake Up

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I do not myself believe that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
    —    Bertrand Russell
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.  For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
    —    Isaac Asimov
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On This Day In:
2022 Suggestions (The Order Of Precedence Is Optional)…
2021 But That’s Certainly Irrational
Just Goin’ To My Room
2020 The Butterflies Are In Trouble
2019 The Deep Center
2018 Oh, Heaven (Too)
2017 Now Pausing Makes Sense
2016 Just Spicy
Only One Part
2015 Positive Acts Of Creation
2014 One Thing Is Clear
2013 Corrections
See Greatness
2012 Gemutlichkeit
2011 Back On The Asphalt

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The person… by protecting against the hell within himself, also cuts himself off from the heaven within.
     —    Abraham Maslow
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On This Day In:
2022 I’ve Lost My Share
2021 You Decide
A Dream And The Wind
2020 Making Me
2019 Inside Your Head
2018 Lingering Curiosity
2017 Just Kidding
2016 The Danger Of Walls
2015 Protection
2014 Let It Go
2013 Don’t Know And Not Telling
2012 A Challenge For Progress
2011 Dependent Difficulty

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I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
    —    Emily Dickinson
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On This Day In:
2022 And Even Fewer Regrets
2021 Today Counts
I Hope You’ll Understand
2020 Maybe #IncompetentDonald Really Is A Great Manager
2019 Your Only Choice
2018 A Good Definition
2017 Getting It Done
2016 Getting To Know Me
2015 Why I Pay Taxes
2014 Inequality Of Sacrifice
2013 I Never Saw A Moor
2012 Fill In The Blank
Not For Naught
Cliff Notes To Life?
2011 Conference Games Sunday

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
    —    Will Rogers
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… Divine revelation has been scoffed at by the Philosophers of the present day, the immortality of the soul treated as the dreams of fools, or the invention of knaves, & death has been declared by public authority an eternal sleep; these opinions are gaining ground amongst us & silently saping the foundations of religion & encouragement of good, the terror of evildoers and the consolation of the poor, the miserable, and the distressed.  Remove the hope & dread of future reward & punishment, the most powerful restraint on wicked action, & the strongest inducement to virtuous ones is done away.
   —    Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Letter to Secretary of War James McHenry in 1800
[If a person is virtuous in order to claim the reward of Heaven, are they truly virtuous?  What happened to doing good for good’s sake?  What about the Golden Rule?  And why not have the death penalty for more crimes?  Wouldn’t that lower the crime rate by increasing the dread?  I guess I just don’t understand the “how” or the “why” of these things sapping the foundations of religion.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022 Against Considerable Odds
2021 Only 10
Just A Hopeless Case
2020 What We Know About Ourselves
2019 But It Feels Dirtier Lately
2018 I Remember Some More Than Others
2017 Creating Reality
2016 Come, Read To Me Some Poem
2015 Exceeding Service
2014 Still Learning
Hospitality
2013 Execution Not Intensity
2012 Charles Carroll Of Carrollton (The Only Catholic Founder)
2011 Life Works
Pay Like Hell
Prosperity Finds Its Way Up

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