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Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
    ―   H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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On This Day In:
2022 Vision Test
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There Goes My Heart
2020 Find An Antidote
2019 Take A Few Minutes To Remember
Start By Doubting
2018 You Cannot Pretend
2017 A Long Shadow
2016 Learning, Experience, Chances or Money
2015 The Critical State
2014 Dawn, n.
2013 Ouch!
2012 Just Lookin’ Around
Still Growing
2011 But Do You Want To?

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Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
    —    Dalai Lama
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On This Day In:
2022 Truly And Simply
2021 Lessons
We Used To Sing
2020 And #45 Is Flat On His Face
2019 I’m Still Hungry
2018 What Matters
2017 By Far
2016 Until…
2015 Or Infinitesimal
2014 I’ve Looked At Clouds
2013 Undiscovered Ocean
2012 Feeling Old? (Part 2)
2011 What About Freedom?

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We can reject everything else:  religion, ideology, all received wisdom.  But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion…  This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith.  In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine or dogma.  Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple.  The doctrine is compassion.
Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are:  ultimately these are all we need.  So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy.
    —    Dalai Lama
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On This Day In:
2022 Threat Calculus
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2021 Questioned By Life
If There’ll Come A Time
2020 Trying To Grow Pearls?
2019 Instantly Turned
2018 Sitting
2017 No Right Way
2016 Still Ticklish
2015 Maybe Sooner Than You Think
2014 The Path Of Mastery
2013 Love’s Ignorance
2012 Here’s To Enjoyment
2011 Not Just The Facts, Ma’am

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In the end, only three things matter:  how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
    —    Buddha
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On This Day In:
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I’m Still Mediocre With Easy
2021 I’m An Optimist
Talent Is A Ticket To Ride
2020 Works For Me
Rivers Versus Waterfalls
2019 Better To Do
News: Drunken Party Girl Saves Seoul
2018 Keep Moving
2017 Fighting Good
2016 Size Matters
2015 Maybe The Best Thing
2014 Ready To Be Fried?
2013 A Real Lover
2012 Winning Wars
2011 A Different Lesson

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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
    —    George Sand
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On This Day In:
2022 For An Extended Period
2021 Surrender With Hope
A Little Grace
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

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Love is taking a few steps backward maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
    —     Winnie the Pooh
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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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October 17, 1946
D’Arline,
I adore you, sweetheart.
I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.
It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you’ll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic;  and I thought there was no sense to writing.
But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past.  I want to tell you I love you.  I want to love you.  I always will love you.
I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me.  I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you.  I never thought until just now that we can do that.  What should we do.  We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector.  Can’t I do something now?  No.  I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.
When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed.  You needn’t have worried.  Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much.  And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want you to stand there.  You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.
I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way.  I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years.  But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes.  You only are left to me.  You are real.
My darling wife, I do adore you.
I love my wife.  My wife is dead.
Rich.
PS  Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don’t know your new address.
[The above letter was written by Dr. Richard Feynman.  To quote the origin site / blog:  “In June of 1945, his wife and high-school sweetheart, Arline, passed away after succumbing to tuberculosis.  She was 25-years-old.  16 months later, in October of 1946, Richard wrote his late wife a heartbreaking love letter and sealed it in an envelope.  It remained unopened until after his death in 1988.
Disclaimer:  The above (letter and quote) are posted here on my site without prior permission or approval by either the originating site or whomever may own the rights to the actual letter.  My posting is being done without claim of ownership and without any attempt to solicit or obtain monetary compensation for myself.  I just think both the letter and the site deserve a wider distribution and this is my small effort to “spread the word”.  If either the letter owner or the originating site object to my post and request removal of this post, I will, of course, comply.
Found on one of the blogs I follow:  Letters of Note
The specific post is located at:  https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-adore-you-sweetheart
Please visit the original site if you have a few minutes.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
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2019 Is It Dark And Quiet For You?
2018 Undeniable Requirement
2017 Orange Corrosion
2016 Both Particle And Wave
2015 Deep In Debt
2014 The Difference
2013 My Heart Is Described
2012 Keen To Be Alone
2011 The Ideal Business…
2010 55

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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping.  You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear…  the distant beating of its surf.
    —     Mark Twain
[Happy Valentine’s Day, Hil!!  You are my priceless treasure…
All my love,
Always,
Your Kev
XXX
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On This Day In:
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Backyard Narcissus
2020 Happy Valentine’s Day – 2020!!
2019 Happy Valentine’s Day – 2019!!
2018 Happy Valentine’s Day – 2018!!
2017 Happy Valentine’s Day – 2017!!
2016 Happy Valentine’s Day – 2016!!
2015 To My Special Lady
2014 Awakening
2013 Drowsy In Comfort
2012 Happy Valentine’s Day
2011 Own Your Bible

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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
    —     James Baldwin
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On This Day In:
2022 In My Defense…
2021 Mike Could Have Saved Us A Bundle On Border Walls
Is It Too Late?
2020 And Then There Was Yellow
At This Moment
2019 Sin Less Every Day
2018 Probably Only A Little Easier
2017 Stars Above
2016 Where Do You Stand?
Health Update
2015 Leaving On A Mid-Night Train
2014 Questioned Faith
2013 At Home In Fire
2012 A Tale Of Two Books
More Meaning
2011 Back At The Millstone
To Learn, Teach

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Hate has a reason for everything, but love is unreasonable.
    —     V. Raiuhes Ahaefuthe
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On This Day In:
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2021 Guns Or Butter
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2020 Haunting Illusions
True Color
Crackin’ The Flags
2019 Maybe A Slight Advantage
We Should Never Give Up On Our Dreams
2018 As I Recall
2017 Truly Generous
2016 Choose Your Destiny
2015 Fast And Firm
2014 Neither Head Nor Heart
2013 Lonely, Foolish, Love Songs
Batting 1.000
Coward, n.
2012 At Least A Little More Difficult
2011 Speaking Of Fear

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These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 15:17
King James Version (KJV)
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along;  people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents.  Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
    ―     Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia
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On This Day In:
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(Hopefully) Good-Bye To The Trump Dark Ages
2020 Posting As A Continual Exercise
2019 Border Security – Yes, Border Wall – No
2018 Supporting Survival Values
2017 Inauguration Day 2017  [Sometimes, I hate it when I’m right!   —   kmab]
2016 Or A Pot Of Gold After The Storm
2015 One, Two, Three…
2014 Lend Your Hand
2013 Amnesty, n.
2012 Best Resolv’d
The Clock Is Running
2011 Magic

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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:
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2020 The Burden Of Faith
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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

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Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already:  the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
    —     Nick Hornby
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On This Day In:
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2020 Speaking For Us
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2019 Foundational Pillar Of Civilized Discourse
2018 Seven Minutes. Not Six, Not Eight
2017 Falling Forward One Step At A Time
2016 And Without Expectation
2015 Just Do It
I Am A Runner
2014 Some Things I Learned (Mostly) In The Army:
2013 Who You Are
2012 Mine Stands
2011 Aversions

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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
    —     Carl Sagan
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On This Day In:
2021 Being Constantly Great
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2020 Sapping Joy
Blew Out My Flip-Flop
Really Wheelie
2019 Word Up
2018 But Much Is Worth Learning
2017 Mr. President, About Global Warming
2016 Starting To Stumble
2015 Begin Combat
I Am A Runner
2014 Just Dig ‘N It, Why?
2013 Additions
The Object Of Instruction
2012 Telling Her
2011 On Torture

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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.  It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
    —     Eleanor Roosevelt
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On This Day In:
2021 The Question Is Courage
Never Change
2020 Two Quotes Which Remind Me Of Our Lame Duck President
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2019 I’m Up For Trying
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2018 #PresidentBoneSpur
2017 My Staggering Confusion
Zapped!!!
2016 And Bloggers?
2015 Ethical Energy
2014 Are You Likely To Defend It?
2013 Might As Well
2012 The Long And Short Of It
2011 Bravery

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