A Little More Each Day

As we advance in love, we grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of the soul.
—     Fyodor Dostoyevsky
From:  “The Brothers Karamazov“
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On This Day In:
2023	Into Redemption
2022	A Little More Each Day
	Zappa-ed!!
2021	Every Time It Gets Better
	Distant! (How Do You Like Me Now?!)
2020	I’m Persuaded (Crystal Blue Persuasion)
2019	Hungry For Trust
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

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Love And Leave

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
—    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
—    Native American Proverb
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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

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I’d Be Happy With Another Score (Or So)

I do not believe in personal immortality;  it seems so unnecessary.  Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
—    Edward Abbey
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On This Day In:
2023	Inviting Dispute
2022	Beautiful Curves
2021	Life Is…
	Thank You Guardians (OTG)* (Come And Get Your Love)
2020	Why #DonTheCon Hates, Belittles And Fires Honest Government Employees
2019	What Do You Want?
2018	Wakanda Forever
	I’d Be Happy With Another Score (Or So)
2017	In Defense Of A Free Press
2016	Lost Opportunity
2015	Are You Listening Ladies?
2014	Practice, Practice, Practice
2013	A Fist Full Of Confusion
2012	Teaching Faith
2011	The Heart Of Terror
	The Proportion Of Gravity And Probability

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If Death Be My Future

Surely if the species must die, let it die while leaving behind a greater species that can take up more effectively the eternal struggle with darkness and stride to the kind of victories we can’t even imagine today.  Properly viewed, to such a species death is no death at all, but another step toward the only worthwhile immortality – that of life and intelligence in the abstract.
—    Isaac Asimov
[This was written in my journal with no reference.  Looking it up, the one notation states it is from a 1967 article arguing against the value of individual / personal immortality.  I cannot speak for the species, but I will die contented if I pass believing I left my children better off than I was, in a world better than the one I have enjoyed being in.   —   kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023	Set Asides
2022	I Love Flowers
	Hope And Fear: Global Warming / Climate Change
2021	I Should Have Started Earlier
	To Soothe Your Soul (All Day Music)
2020	Let’s Make It So
2019	Today’s Question
2018	A Moment Of Union
2016	Symptoms
2016	Tossers
2015	Hunger
2014	Outside Dependence
2013	Doing Right
2012	A Short Course In Human Relations
	If Death Be My Future
	Strive
	Such A Fool
2011	I’m Working For A Living

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I Err Gladly

If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and I do not wish to lose so delightful and error.
—    Marcus Tullius Cicero
From:  “Cato Maior de Senectute“
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On This Day In:
2023	Sit In The Hoop
2022	Courage In Ukraine
2021	Enjoying The Getting There
	And I Carry It With Me (I Got A Name)
2020	Might As Well Jump (Jump)
2019	Just Sitting Here…
2018	My Experience As Well
2017	He’s Making A List
2016	Mere Specks
2015	Day To Day Success
2014	We Have Ignition!
2013	The Dreamer
2012	I Err Gladly
2011	Ill Executed
	And You?

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Charles Carroll Of Carrollton (The Only Catholic Founder)

… 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:
2023	Webs
2022	Against Considerable Odds
2021	Only 10
	Just A Hopeless Case (Can’t Get Used To Losing You)
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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