Everything Has Its Cost

The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics:  everything has its cost.  We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past.  We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.
—    Brian Herbert
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On This Day In:
2023	Reveal And Conceal
	Heart Update (+30 Days)
2022	The Edge Of Today
2021	Why I’m Wrinkled With Age
	Is There A Generic Available? (Love Potion #9)
2020	I Feel Noblesse Oblige
2019	Live For Something
2018	My Dogs Beat ‘Em Up
	Is Your Sky Falling?
2017	Unseen Here, Too
2016	Criticized Anyway
2015	Sometimes The Truth Hurts
2014	All Agreed, Say “Aye”
2013	Two Books, Two Movies
	Just Because
2012	God’s Requirements
2011	Greater Purity

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Enormous Effort

One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.  But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes.  It was ever so.  I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
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Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.
—    Clarice Lispector
From her book:  “The Hour of the Star“
[This quote was originally found on one of the blogs I have been following for several years:  A Pondering Mind  at:  https://aponderingmind.org/
The specific post is at:  https://aponderingmind.org/2019/09/02/all-the-world-began-with-a-yes/
Please visit the original site if you have a spare minute.     —     kmab]
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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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It Starts With A Dream

You dream.  You plan.  You reach.  There will be obstacles.  There will be doubters.  There will be mistakes.  But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.
—     Michael Phelps
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On This Day In:
2023	And Pretty Viscous Without Review
2022	Going Beyond
2021	Shapely Ankles
	Beyond Thar Be Dragons (Puff The Magic Dragon)
2020	Skyin’ (Keep Your Head To The Sky)
2019	I Hope He Has A Lot Of Room Down There
2018	What Time Is It?
2017	Gifts
2016	30 Seconds
2015	Success
2014	Create The Fact
2013	Overpowering Curiosity
2012	On Planning The Invasion Of Iraq…
2011	This And That
	I’m Bettin’ On The Bible

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We ALL Make Them

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
—     Elbert Hubbard
[It’s called:  “Being Human“.  The “trick” is to not keep making the same bad ones over and over again.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022	From Mountain Tops, Seashores And Under The Stars
2021	Learning Stages
	Sometimes It Only Takes A Smile… (Silly Love Songs)
2020	Come Laugh With Me
	Make Life Be Life To Me (Back In The High Life Again)
2019	For Your Consideration…
2018	Brown’s Rules
	Day 23: Fasting Visualized
2017	Still Trying To Make It
2016	One Lucky Man
2015	Food Change ==> Health Change
2014	10 Commandments Of Logical Arguments (Fallacies)
2013	Sociology Of The Future
2012	1010
	There In The Sunshine
2011	Not Enough Time

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In The Grand Scheme Of Things…

Do not fear mistakes.  There are none.
–     Miles Davis
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On This Day In:
2023	A Dash Of Yellow
	In The Grand Scheme Of Things…
2022	Suggestions (The Order Of Precedence Is Optional)…
2021	But That’s Certainly Irrational
	Just Goin’ To My Room (In My Room)
2020	The Butterflies Are In Trouble
2019	The Deep Center
2018	Oh, Heaven (Too)
2017	Now Pausing Makes Sense
2016	Just Spicy
	Only One Part
2015	Positive Acts Of Creation
2014	One Thing Is Clear
2013	Corrections
	See Greatness
2012	Gemutlichkeit
2011	Back On The Asphalt

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Unmistakable Progress

You are making progress if each mistake you make is a new one.
—    Anonymous
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On This Day In:
2023	Laughing At #45:DonTheClown
2022	Sowing The Future
2021	Unmistakable Progress
	Dom-De-Doo-Be Dom (Come And Go With Me)
	Reviewing Austen
2020	A Better Synthesis
2019	It’s Only Funny If You’re Old Enough To Know What “Film” Was
2018	Bourne Wicked Blonde
	First Things First
2017	This Explains A Lot
2016	Me Too
2015	A Proper Price
2014	Well Hard
2013	Because I Can
	Eloquence, n.
2012	Why Bother?
2011	Peculiar Notions

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At Least A Lot More Gray

Without music, life would be a mistake.
―     Friedrich Nietzsche
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On This Day In:
2023	Two Brown Miracles
2022	I Learn The Hard Way
2021	I Ask For Two Minutes…
	Always (Always Something There To Remind Me)
2020	At Least A Lot More Gray
2019	Walking The Lonely Path
2018	The Ultimate Trial
2017	Vain Expectations
2016	Or Of One Thought
2015	What’s In Your Future?
2014	Light In Darkness
2013	How ‘Bout Just Obeying The Law?
2012	Or Maybe Not
2011	My Interval Is Too Short!

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Ooops (Again)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
―     George Bernard Shaw
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On This Day In:
2022	Looking Forward To Christmas
2021	What Should Be Universal Exercise
	I’m So Glad (You’ve Made Me So Very Happy)
2020	Trying To Keep On Keeping On
	Bending (The Hard Way Every Time)
2019	Ooops (Again)
2018	Two Start Up Front
2017	I Love America Because…
	An Act Of God
	And So It Came To Pass (Act Of God part 2)
2016	As Far From
2015	Rocky 7
	Just Like Politics
2014	Game And Legend
	“Scientific” Pride In Humanity
2013	Real Honor
	Catching Up
2012	Thoughts And Communications
2011	But How Does Peter Feel?
2010	Name That Regret

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The Far Side

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it.  So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can.  Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
—   Thomas J. Watson
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On This Day In:
2022	Wake Up Call For November 2022
2021	And It Will Be Here Last
	Still Goode 40 Years Later (Johnny B. Goode)
2020	Necessary And Desirable
	Who Made The Rules? (The Way It Is)
2019	The Far Side
2018	Hold On
	Day 11: Just Plain Tired
2017	Why Don’t You Tell Us What You Really Think?
2016	Discontent
2015	Do You Know Me?
	Appetite For Life Update
2014	Tough Journalism
2013	Things I’ve Learned
2012	Abstainer, n.
2011	Rain, Rain, Rain
	Test Your Strength
2009	End the mistakes…

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The Ones Worth Remembering, Anyway

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
––    Oscar Wilde
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On This Day In:
2023	Tread Softly, It Works…
2022	Whatever One Can
2021	Horticulture Anyone?
	Take To The Sky (Natural High)
2020	Heroes Die Too
	Front Update
	Still More Hope Than Fact
2019	The Ones Worth Remembering, Anyway
	Boot Edge Edge (My New T)
2018	To Reach The Next Threshold
2017	Streaking Tales
2016	Singular Reality
2015	He Says It’s Hard To Get There From Here
2014	Question From A Founding Father
2013	Make Heroes
2012	See And Hold
2011	Am Not, Are So

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Every Vote Counts

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
—    Edmund Burke
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On This Day In:
2023	I Hope Blogging Counts Too
2022	Republican Ambling
2021	I’d Argue Wealth, Then Income
	Knock Him Off His Feet (Mighty Love)
2020	Steppin’…
2019	Every Vote Counts
2018	Or A President
2017	Pleasures
2016	Why Not?
2015	Je Suis Charlie
2014	To The Nines
2013	Higher And Truer
2012	Life’s Last Question
2011	A Single Heartbeat
	A Little Male Humor – WHY MEN SHOULDN’T RETIRE

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#45: Still Trying To

Learn from the mistakes of others.  You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
―     Groucho Marx
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On This Day In:
2022	The Real Price
	Second Of Four
2021	Truthfully
	Average It Up (Pick Up The Pieces)
2020	Demonstrably Proven To Yield No Benefits
	But When You Must, Stand
2019	Paint-By-Numbers
2018	#45: Still Trying To
	Oh, Well…
2017	Two Views Of The Starting Line
2016	Never Had It, Never Will (Donald Trump)
2015	20/20
2014	All Of My Best Ideas Come While Walking…
2013	Learn To Learn
2012	I Remind You
2011	Respect And Prestige
2010	Living Legends (Willie Nelson) and the Gettysburg Address

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And Your Point Is?

My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon.  Do not mistake the finger for the moon.
–    Buddha
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On This Day In:
2023	Strength, Wisdom, Deserving
2022	One Link In The Chain
2021	Life Measures
	First Thing Every Morning (Man In The Mirror)
2020	Like #45 And Many Of His Supporters
(Leap Year 29th)	With Some Epic Scenery Along The Way
2019	Creative Prayer Time
	ADF: Day 9:5
2018	#DumbDonald: Start With Hearing What You Don’t Want Said
2017	The Press Is NOT The Enemy
2016	It Ain’t Easy
(Leap Year 29th)	Or Try To, Anyway…
(Leap Year 29th)	Circles Within Circles
2015	A Series Of Funerals
2014	And Your Point Is?
2013	Infinitely Care
2012	In My Room
(Leap Year 29th)	Stingray – TV Series Review  (This is my most popular post since starting my blog – hands down!  It still draws hits almost every week.  The hits seem to come mostly from Central Europe.  I guess the show must be in syndication there.  //  2020 update:  While this is still my all-time, most popular post, it is no longer being viewed every week – or even every month.  I guess the show is no longer in syndication.)
(Leap Year 29th)	A Single Thread
2011	Lyrical Mixture
	Teaching = Translating

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Just Getting Up

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you.  What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
—    Mary Pickford
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On This Day In:
2023	It’s About Perspective
2022	I’m Still Friends
	More Cherry Than Candy Apple (Or My Continuing G.A.S.*)
2021	The Heart Of Science
	Too Thin (Thin Line Between Love And Hate)
2020	Up Again
2019	Advice From #1 To #45
2018	How Much I Will Miss The Trump Administration
2017	We Need To Continue Experimenting
2016	Consistently
2015	We Must Dissent
2014	Now What?
2013	Judgement
2012	Stuck In My Mind (I Know That My Redeemer Lives)
	Life’s Hope
2011	Just Getting Up
	Directions Please

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