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If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

— African Proverb

[This quote reminds me of the British expression: “You’re not as green as you are cabbage looking.” — kmab]

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On This Day In:
2022	My Impatient Desires
2021	Cabbage Looking
	Burning Up The Night (Night Fever)
2020	Your Challenge
2019	The Tragedies Are About To Get Worse
2018	Plunge
	Time To Meet God
2017	Wealth Within
2016	Soaring
2015	Gone To The Library…
2014	Choose To Lead
2013	Not Sent Yet
2012	Wall-Crawler Reboot
	Learning To Count
	On Worshiping God
2011	Emancipated Differences
2010	A Little More Technology, Please…

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.

— Pam Shaw

The shortest answer is doing.

— Proverb

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On This Day In:
2022	True For All Arts
2021	Driving To Your Destiny
	Angels (Angel Of The Morning)
2020	It Almost Certainly Will If #45 Is Re-elected
	Sssshhhh (The Sound Of Silence)
2019	Deciding, Doing, Done
	Day 5: Getting Easier
2018	Thought Experiments
	Day 38: Going Crazy
2017	Which Did You Learn?
2016	Shape And Limit
2015	Me Either
2014	Just Business
2013	Beautiful Adventure
2012	Precedence
2011	Ya Think?

God writes straight with crooked lines.

— Portuguese Proverb

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On This Day In:
2022	Neat, Please
2021	Someone Should Tell Senator Joe Manchin
	One Of The Things We Need (Listen To The Music)
2020	Boxing Day 2020
	Fractal Branches (Bloody Well Right)
	Advice For Sons, Too
2019	Almost Soulful Pleasure
2018	Cursive In The News
2017	Coffee Crunch
2016	Preparation
2015	Scarcely Asked
2014	They Resemble Us
2013	Both
2012	That’s Success!
2011	Losing At Dominoes
2010	1,001

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

— French Proverb

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On This Day In:
2022	If Only I Could…
2021	Become Daily
	Just Pickin’ (Doc’s Guitar)
2020	So, You Think You Know The Answer?
	The One You Come Running To (Let’s Stay Together)
2019	His Promises, OUR Hopes
2018	Where I Write
2017	At Last, An Honest Philosopher…
2016	Fake It ‘Til You Make It
2015	Hell Toupée
2014	Corrected And Amended
2013	Too Few
2012	Three Characters
2011	Universal Payment
2010	Privatizing the TSA? (An old – *and long* – post, but still relevant!!)

You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

— Irish Proverb

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On This Day In:
2023	Almost Spring
	With Some Fava Beans And A Nice Chianti
2022	What Really Hurts
2021	Republican Governors Don’t Help
	We’re Coming To Your Town (We’re An American Band)
2020	With Friends Like This…
2019	Still Better Than Third
2018	A Tough Row To Hoe
2017	Just In Case
2016	Republicans Eat Their Young
2015	Still 99%
2014	Affirming The Wall
2013	Maintain The Freedom
2012	All Good
2011	Fountains Of Life
	Staying Alive

A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.

— Mozambique Proverb

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On This Day In:
2022	At Least Three…
2021	Maybe A Tiny Bit Wiser
	On The Other Side Of That Hill (You Just Can’t See Him From The Road)
2020	Resistant Expectation
	Every Second (I Lived)
2019	Two More Reasons Trump Is Such A Poor Leader
2018	Conservatives Have 20/20 Hindsight
	#Forever44
2017	Dodgers Choke Away World Series
	Firing Director Comey = Obstruction
2016	Why Do Republicans Always Seem To Be Angry?
2015	All Things Being Equal
2014	Fearful Light
2013	Unexpectedly Knowledgeable
2012	Seems Obvious
2011	See The Specialist

A river is made drop by drop.

— Afghanistan Proverb

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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