Some Things

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
―   H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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2020	Find An Antidote
2019	Take A Few Minutes To Remember
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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
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2011	But Do You Want To?

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A Balancing Act

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
—    Dalai Lama
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On This Day In:
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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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Necessities

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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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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You Can Start With These Three

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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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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Old Math: It’s Actually Two

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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After You, My Dear

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:
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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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And I Always Will

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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Happy Valentine’s Day – 2023!!

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 00 X]
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2019	Happy Valentine’s Day – 2019!!
2018	Happy Valentine’s Day – 2018!!
2017	Happy Valentine’s Day – 2017!!
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2013	Drowsy In Comfort
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Who Was That Masked Man?

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
—     James Baldwin
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2018	Probably Only A Little Easier
2017	Stars Above
2016	Where Do You Stand?
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2015	Leaving On A Mid-Night Train
2014	Questioned Faith
2013	At Home In Fire
2012	A Tale Of Two Books
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2011	Back At The Millstone
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Try Being Unreasonable

Hate has a reason for everything, but love is unreasonable.
—     V. Raiuhes Ahaefuthe
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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
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2012	At Least A Little More Difficult
2011	Speaking Of Fear

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Share Love

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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2020	Posting As A Continual Exercise
2019	Border Security – Yes, Border Wall – No
2018	Supporting Survival Values
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2016	Or A Pot Of Gold After The Storm
2015	One, Two, Three…
2014	Lend Your Hand
2013	Amnesty, n.
2012	Best Resolv’d
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2011	Magic

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Courage To Love

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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2017	He Is Alone
2016	Compensation
2015	Charlie Redux
2014	The Crux
2013	Erosion And Rechannelling
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2012	How Many Thought… (One I Know Of)
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2011	Speed Spoils
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Good And Plenty

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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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
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2013	Who You Are
2012	Mine Stands
2011	Aversions

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Only Through Love

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
—     Carl Sagan
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2021	Being Constantly Great
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2020	Sapping Joy
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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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Large, Reasonable And Important

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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2019	I’m Up For Trying
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2018	#PresidentBoneSpur
2017	My Staggering Confusion
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2016	And Bloggers?
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2014	Are You Likely To Defend It?
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