Where To We Begin

If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	Decision, Decisions
2021	Bring The Void
	Home Cookin’, Anyone? (Hey Good Lookin’)
2020	Growth Mindset
	I Wonder Where You Are (I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry)
2019	Steps To Impeach #45
	Science Upgrade Needed
2018	Come November 6th
2017	Hearts And Memories
2016	Tremendous Energy
	Beyond Trying
2015	Tell Me…
2014	Live Forever (To Remember Me)
	Orange October (VI) – Giants Win Game 4
2013	More Than Just Words
2012	Egotist, n.
2011	Good And Bad

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Three In One

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	In Less Than 70 Days…
2021	You Really Are
	What You Want (Whole Lotta Love)
2020	So Far The Only Burden Shifted Has Been The Cost
	Rockin’ The Hammond (Gimme Some Lovin’)
2019	The Powers Of Mind
	Day 10: Into Double Digits
2018	Up For Progress
	Day 1.5: Done (For Now)
2017	And Second By Second
2016	Bakeries And Coffee Shops
2015	Spirit Not Form
2014	Sometimes Even Kneeling Seems Insufficient
2013	Hobgoblins
2012	Got Sleep?
2011	Not Another Barren Corner

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Pretty Sure I’m Still Being Ignored

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	Two Years Later (Now 1,004,000+ Deaths And Inflation)
2021	One Year Later (Now 604,000+)
	Good Intentions (Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood)
2020	115,000+
2019	One Generation’s View
2018	The One Thing
2017	Never Give Up
2016	Which Generation Are We?
	Congratulations, Kyle!
2015	Centered
2014	Economic Trinity
2013	At Both Ends
2012	Holding Allowance
2011	The Power Of Good

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Between Us And Darkness

Hatred corrodes the container it’s contained in.
—     Proverb
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
Education on the value of free speech and the other freedoms reserved by the Bill of Rights, about what happens when you don’t have them, and about how to exercise and protect them, should be an essential prerequisite for being an American citizen — or indeed a citizen of any nation, the more so to the degree that such rights remain unprotected.  If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power.  But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us.  In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights.  With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.  In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
—    Carl Sagan
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
—     Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On This Day In:
2023	Between Us And Darkness
2022	Or Simple Truths You Don’t Want To Believe
2021	I Never Could Keep A Secret
	A Half A Mile Or So (Sail On)
2020	Facing The Truth
2019	How Much Is Your Education Worth?
	Is America Ready: Mayor Pete – 2020!!
2018	Disruptive Definition
2017	A History Of Small Insights
2016	Be Uncommon
2015	Ooops!
2014	What Price Freedom?
2013	Remembering Val
2012	Good-bye, Val
	Survival Value
2011	Traitors In Our Midst
	Life Ain’t Easy

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No Equal Two

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	No Equal Two
2021	I Hope To See You Later
	To Do With You (Time In A Bottle)
2020	More Than Satisfying Hunger
	End Of Year Thoughts Of Those Gone Before Us (Night Shift)
2019	Still Hoping To Soar
2018	Why America Stinks More Than It Did 50 Years Ago
2017	No Universal Thinking
2016	Supervise The Results
2015	Just Magic!
2014	It Lies Ahead…
2013	At Least One Difference
2012	Are We, Are We?
	On Not Playing The Game
	Scale
2011	Nutcracker And Nooks
	Seeing Differences

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Ask Your Friends To Vote In November

The future depends on what we do in the present.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
[Ask them TODAY!!  We are less than 30 days from the mid-term elections.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022	Ask Your Friends To Vote In November
2021	What Matters To Me
	With The Slamming Of The Door (It’s All Coming Back To Me Now)
2020	Make Voting A Habit
	You Ought To Hear Him Tell His Stories (Silence On The Line)
2019	2019 49ers Season Starts 5-0!!
	Will Any Republican Senator Vote For Impeachment?
2018	VOTE – We Need A Wave
2017	Soothe, Inspire And Recharge
2016	Aren’t We?
2015	Cold Embrace
2014	Delightful
2013	Apprenticeship
2012	Curtain Rods
2011	A Living Force
2010	BART Rides – A Tipping Point

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Seeking The Same Thing

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth, or the Inner Voice or “the Still Small Voice” mean one and the same thing.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
Live seeking God, then you will not live without God.
—     Leo Tolstoy
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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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If You Do Nothing About Climate Change

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.  You have to do the right thing.  It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit.  But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing.  You may never know what results come from your action.  But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	Streaming Life
2021	If You Do Nothing About Climate Change
	Standing By (Baby, Baby Don’t Cry)
2020	Each Over All
	Rollin’ Along (Ol’ Man River)
2019	And Integrity For Today’s Elected Republicans
2018	A Faulty Start, Too
	Honorable Resignation And Syria
2017	Beneath The Tree Of Wisdom
	The Republican Rape Of The American Middle Class
2016	Something Authentic Happened
2015	Back On The Bricks
	On, Rocinante!!
2014	Changing Frequently
2013	Trifles
2012	Simple, Ordinary And Wonderous
2011	Humane Writers

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My Thoughts On Global Climate Change

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
—     Mahatma Gandhi
[Mankind cannot continue our war on the Earth’s environment and expect to survive – let alone expect to “win”.  Yes, we can destroy the environment, but the Earth will not care and it will go on.  If we continue to make the planet uninhabitable for our species, we will become extinct, but the Earth will continue just fine.  The planet is indifferent to our survival as a species.  This will be a bitter lesson (for humanity) for the next 150 years…    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022	Truth Without Humiliation
2021	My Thoughts On Global Climate Change
	And Never Understand (Sign Of The Times)
2020	Waiting For 20 January 2021
	#45: You Would Cry Too… (It’s My Party)
2019	#Corrupt45 Fails Another Great Test
2018	Where The Economy Is Headed Thanks To #IncompetentDonald
2017	Time For More Research, Too
2016	Original Thoughts
2015	If They’re Good Enough
2014	Three…
2013	Uncle Joe’s Song
	Live, Then, As If…
2012	Still Trying
2011	Not Deserving

 

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What Will You Become?

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.  If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it.  On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
––     Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	Choose Hope Today
2021	What Will You Become?
	Life’s Illusions (Both Sides Now)
2020	Rules Of Morality
	Tempting Fate (Tears On My Pillow)
2019	Good People On Both Sides?
2018	Schedule, Please
2017	No Hope For #DumbDonald
2016	Do Something
2015	What Are You Making Now?
2014	Like Fire Burning In My Heart
2013	Oh Yes He Can!
2012	Enquiries
2011	The Prize: Understanding
2010	Can You Tell My Scanner Works?
	Rebecca – The Early Years
	James – The Early Years
	Brothers By Another Mother

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How Many Democracy Loving Conservatives Are In The Senate?

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
—   Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2023	I Honestly Don’t Remember
2022	Slow Down And Don’t Break Things
2021	How Many Democracy Loving Conservatives Are In The Senate?
	The Fighter Still Remains (The Boxer)
2020	Love And Charity
2019	Tomorrow Is Valentine’s Day
	Inverted U Curve
2018	Still More Prejudice
	A Well Trod Path Of Hopes, Expectations And Surprise
2017	…And With It Civilization
2016	Just Like My Mother
2015	All Omissions Are Mine
2014	Precise Order
2013	Uh, No. Not Really…
	Deep Regions
2012	A Pre-Valentine’s Day Message
2011	Easy Like Sunday Morning
	May I Have A Little More, Please…
2010	Valleys and Peaks

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Just Chillin’… Why?

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
—    Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2023	Imagining Justice
2022	Yo-yo Management
2021	DIY: Outdoor Gym Modifications
	First Hammock Hang Of 2021
	Slow Moving Trains And Squirrels (I Love…)
	Just Chillin’… Why?
2020	Still Crazy After All These Years…
2019	20 / 20 Foresight
	He Knew Damned Well…
2018	Be Someone’s Kindling
2017	When The Moment Comes (I Lived…)
2016	Changed Clothes Lately?
2015	Like Stone
2014	Resistance Is Futile
2013	Subtle Humor
	To Look Behind Green Eyes
2012	The Path Is Endless
2011	Happy MLK, Jr Day!!!
	A Factor Of Ten
	Better Late Than Never?
	Whoops!
	Acceptable Beginnings
	Slow Progress
	Useful Confrontation
	When Phenomena Are Different
	Creative Avoidance
	Thinking
	Fast And Flexible
	Surrender Certainty
	Techniques
	Vive La Difference
	Destiny
	Completeness
	Art

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Thank You, Georgia!

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
—   Mahatma Gandhi
[Two new Senators and Democratic control of the U.S. Senate!!!  A big “Thank You!” to the State of Georgia.   Of course, 21 January 2021 starts the real work for all of America.   —   kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023	A Goal Or THE Goal?
2022	No Ulterior Motive
2021	A Soul Passing
	I Hear You Singing In The Wire (Wichita Lineman)
	Thank You, Georgia!
2020	Implications
2019	Just To…
2018	Still Going…
2017	Great Risk
2016	Robbery
2015	Humanity Plus
2014	Dinner For Two?
2013	Exercise For Those Over 50
2012	Tearful Joy!!
	Except When He’s Left

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Why We Must Vote #45 Out

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
—    Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	Mangia, Mangia
2021	Why We Have So Few Personal Favorites
	I Would Have Liked You Anyway (You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice)
2020	Why We Must Vote #45 Out
	If You Believe (Do You Believe In Magic)
2019	Sometimes I Still Have Trouble Sleeping
	Public Ridicule For Office Holder
2018	And Flights Of Fancy
	Dodgers Lose 2nd Consecutive World Series!!
2017	By Their Acts Thy Shall Know Them
2016	Remembering
2015	One
2014	Sure Experiments And Demonstrated Arguments
2013	Irrational Complacency
2012	Why Criticize?
	Giants Sweep 2012 World Series With Game 4 Win (4 To 3)!!!
2011	Saying Just Enough
2010	Giants Win Game 2 Shutout of Rangers – 9 to 0!!!

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Stay Gentle

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
—    Mahatma Gandhi
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On This Day In:
2022	We Need Both
2021	Broaden The Circle
	The Phone Keeps Ringing
2020	Stay Gentle
2019	Immoral #45
2018	From My Soapbox
2017	The Single Most Effective Thing For Health
2016	A Trumpet Solo
2015	Potential Is A Heavy Burden
2014	Fear Not, Weep Not
2013	Half Way There
2012	Sacrificed Any Lately?
2011	The Value Of One’s Character
2010	Intervals
	On Being Human
	Non-predictive Emergence
	Events
	Bodily Functions
	Standing Thoughts
	Sent Home Is Better Than Fixed

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