I Learn The Hard Way Every Time

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
–  Oscar Wilde
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On This Day In:
2017	For Some
2016	Fragile And Explosive, Provocation And Privacy
2015	Bound Up
2014	Economic Engines
2013	Weren’t You Supposed To Be Reading?
	Absent Friends
	Where I Stand
2012	Hangin’ With His P’s
	Help Save
2011	Six Facets Of Good Leadership

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Tic-Toc

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
—  Franklin Pierce Adams
[Maybe procrastination has a little bit to do with it, too.  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2017	Explaining Working Class Support For Donald
2016	Not In My Experience
2015	Effort
2014	Honest Wants
2013	Faith, n.
2012	Surprise Me
2011	Confused With Truth

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Both Sides, Mr. President?

Remember man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
—  John Maxwell
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On This Day In:
2017	Republicans Better Wake Up
2016	Truth Telling
2015	To Be Effective In The Modern World
2014	A Little Cover
2013	Binding
2012	Lift
2011	Another Good Movie, Another Excellent Book
	miSFits
	I’m Just Not Sure

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Torn Between Two Loves

The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books.  The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.
—  Andy Rooney
[The title refers to books and eating, not cooking and dieting.  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2017	I Think They Are Starting To…
2016	Living There
2015	Bookin’ West
	Beyond My Reach
	You Never Call Anymore…
2014	Winning?
2013	Still Inventing
2012	Motivated
2011	Waiting In Line At Starbuck’s

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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:
2017	Freakishly Happy Cowboy
2016	One More, Please
2015	Infinite Adventure
2014	Unpaved
2013	Headstones
2012	Keeping Young
2011	Lessons Well Learned

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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:
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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In Line

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.
―  Groucho Marx
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On This Day In:
2017	Just Get It Right
2016	In Support Of Common Core
2015	Oscillation
2014	Truth Shift
2013	Real Heroes
2012	Controlling The Beast
2011	1,002

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