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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

― Malcolm X
From his book: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X“

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On This Day In:
2022	The Arc Of Justice Sometimes Bends Too Slowly
2021	Still Stumbling
	Make It Your Own… (Make Your Own Kind Of Music)
2020	#45: Diarrhea Of The Mouth, Constipation Of The Brain
	Not As Often As I Used To (I Gotta Get Drunk)
2019	Four Buffett’s
2018	Change Happens
	Day 13: Ginger / Mint Relief
2017	Still Removing Bricks
2016	Namaste
2015	Still Learning
2014	Dark Processes
2013	To The Last Link
2012	Slept In Again
2011	Home Again, Naturally
2009	Thoughts after a long day of OT…

Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

— Alan Cohen

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On This Day In:
2022	Ever Feel Like You’re Spitting Into The Wind?
	The Valley Of Death
2021	On Learning To Play Guitar
	When You’re Feeling Small (Bridge Over Troubled Water)
2020	Remember Your Obligation
	Smile And Shuffle (I Wanna Dance With Somebody)
2019	If One Is Lucky Enough
	Basic Training (In Films)
2018	Being President Doesn’t Make You Presidential
	Day 27: 4 Weeks / 55lbs
2017	I’m Seeing It, Too
2016	Personal Decisions
2015	Verbal Fluency
2014	Familiar
2013	Unbending
2012	Simple Sayings
2011	Wupped Again?
2010	3 and 1…
	Musical Notes…
	Doubt Tries…
	Northwest Passages – Evening Two
	The Beierly’s Web Site

One of the most indelible lessons of this scary time is that you can survive alone, but you need others to flourish. The most dangerous preexisting condition my husband and I had for fighting the virus was our devotion to self-sufficiency. Independence can be its own kind of social isolation.

— Belinda Luscombe
From her opinion / editorial: “Nursing my husband back to health, badly“
Appearing in: Time Magazine, dtd: 18 May 2020
The article appears online as: “I Thought I Could Handle Anything. Then My Husband Got Sick“
The link is: https://time.com/5824463/coronavirus-asking-for-help/
(It may be behind a pay-wall. I am a print / online subscriber.)

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On This Day In:
2022	Taking The Chance To Improvise
2021	A Bit Like Politics
	How About Tonight?
2020	Independent Isolation
2019	This Pilgrim Has Had A (Mostly) Happy Road
2018	And Men, Too
2017	Damned If You Do
2016	A Storm Over The Horizon
2015	What About Today?
2014	Idiot, n.
2013	Temporary Reality
2012	The Great Objective
2011	Read A Book

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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On This Day In:
2023	Think About It
2022	An Experiment Without A Control Group
2021	Seeking Center
	Your Love Is Near (Beauty Is Only Skin Deep)
2020	You Mean I’m STILL In School?
2019	Finishing Work
2018	Diversity
2017	Timely Planning
2016	Just Too Easy To Know Fewer And Fewer
2015	A Fine Balance
2014	Next Rung
2013	Super Bowl Prep
	Romantics
	A Goal For Zen?
2012	Mutant Powers Of Obsession
2011	Federal Stars
	Mud Pie

To suffer and learn a lesson, one pays a high price, but a fool can’t learn any other way.

— Traditional Chinese Proverb
Found in: “American Shaolin“, by Matthew Polly

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On This Day In:
2023	Wide And Yawning
2022	Where One Goes
2021	A Direct Relationship
	Another Night Train South (Can’t You See)
2020	One Person’s Roses…
2019	In The Long-Run
2018	#NeverAgain
	Doss II
	Doesn’t / Does
2017	Talent Hates To Move
2016	Looking To November
2015	It Isn’t The End
	Prospero’s Precepts
2014	Friends
2013	Learning Bitter
2012	Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War
	May I Have More Happiness, Please?
2011	There Is No God, But God
2010	Another Running Book…