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Life is like riding a bicycle.  To keep your balance you must keep moving.
    —    Albert Einstein
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On This Day In:
2022 Taking The Chance To Improvise
2021 A Bit Like Politics
How About Tonight?
2020 Independent Isolation
2019 This Pilgrim Has Had A (Mostly) Happy Road
2018 And Men, Too
2017 Damned If You Do
2016 A Storm Over The Horizon
2015 What About Today?
2014 Idiot, n.
2013 Temporary Reality
2012 The Great Objective
2011 Read A Book

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I think one of the noblest projects for anyone in age is to find a shape in his life.  It was a drama in how many acts.  How can he make the last act worthy of the earlier ones?  He is the author, the protagonist, the audience and the critic.  He has to work under handicaps while the stage hands fidget and the audience is eager to go home.  But perhaps he can succeed in acting out “I was” or even “I was this.”
    —    Malcolm Cowley
Letter to Thomas Ferril, 30th Aug 1978
From:  “The Long Voyage
[Found at one of the blogs I follow:  https://news.lettersofnote.com/
The specific post is:  https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-think-one-of-the-noblest-projects
Please visit the original site and support it if you are able.     —     kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022 My Conservative View
2021 Are We Getting Close To Uncertainty?
How It Could Be
2020 Two Loves
A Short Count
2019 Don’t Forget: Fire Burns
2018 Especially In The Middle East
2017 A Good Local
2016 Life Unlimited
2015 Still Trying
2014 Destiny, n.
2013 No Apologies
2012 Utterly Convinced
2011 A Key To Effectiveness

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To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world;  and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves.  Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement.  Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.
 
    —    Kathryn Schulz
 
[This quote was found at one of the blogs I follow:  https://aponderingmind.org/
The specific post was located at:  https://aponderingmind.org/2023/05/18/todays-quote-8/
Please check out the original site if you have a few spare minutes…    —    kmab]
 
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On This Day In:
2022I Want His Job
2021I Better
 The Way I Will
2020Necessary Events
2019I May Have Started Too Soon
2018But Me
2017A Little More, Please
2016In Full Vigor
2015A Good Lad
2014Who Dare Not Speak
2013I Love Beer
2012Trial By Jury
2011First Class
 Got Knowledge?
  

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We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.  That’s a clear prescription for disaster.
    —    Carl Sagan
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On This Day In:
2022 Appearances Can Be Deceiving…
2021 Here’s To…
Tweet, Tweet
2020 Why My Dentist Loves Me
Live, Learn And Teach Goodness
The Lesson Of Trump’s Life
2019 You Really Don’t
No One Can Imagine
2018 Until Integrity, Decency, Wisdom, And Humility Return
Just Tell (And Re-tell) The Big Lie Often Enough On Fox News
2017 To Laws, Not Office Or Individuals
Beast / General / Civil
2016 Patronage
2015 For Blogs, Too!
2014 Righteous Anger
2013 An Irish Blessing
2012 But Is It Worth It?
2011 Let Us Start

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In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.  They really do it.  It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.  But it happens every day.  I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
    —    Carl Sagan
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On This Day In:
2022 Just Smart Enough
2021 For Some Of Us Anyway
Sh-Boom
Glarry Green
2020 Role Reversal
Time To Defend The Constitution (Part I)
Time To Defend The Constitution (Part II)
2019 Right Or Wrong
2018 Open Doors
2017 When It Deserves It
2016 Expiation For Rest
2015 You’ll Get Through It
2014 A Special Kind Of Fall
2013 Very Rewarding
2012 MIB3 – The Team Is Closer Than Ever
Yet
2011 Little By Little

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I have been in those rooms with [Trump] when he met with those [world] leaders, I believe they think he’s a laughing fool.
    —    John Bolton
Former National Security Advisor to President Trump
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.  They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers.  But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
    —    Carl Sagan
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On This Day In:
2022 Sowing The Future
2021 Unmistakable Progress
Dom-De-Doo-Be Dom
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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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    —    Carl Sagan
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On This Day In:
2022 Traveling Faster Than ‘c’
2021 Maybe “Creation” Wasn’t That Difficult After All
C’est Chic
2020 #45: Time Is Ticking Away
#45 Claims COVID-19 Defeated To Open The Economy
2019 Belief Buffet
2018 Change Is Law
2017 A Dog Day Of Summer
2016 Chances Are
2015 Truer Spoken
2014 Not Quite There Yet (Either)
Many Colors
2013 Distance, n.
Less Can Be More
2012 Rise Up!
The Gift
2011 Artful Courage
2010 A Handful of Lessons…

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Believe in miracles but don’t depend on them.
    —    H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never give up on anybody.  Miracles happen everyday.
    —    H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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On This Day In:
2022 I Learn The Hard Way
2021 I Ask For Two Minutes…
Always
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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You use a glass mirror to see your face;  you use works of art to see your soul.
    ―     George Bernard Shaw
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On This Day In:
2022 Three Treasures
Memorial Day 2022
2021 How Trump Won The Fringe Right
Hold My Hand
2020 I’d Include Health Care
2019 Accustomed To It
2018 Booking My Trip Into The Expanding Universe
2017 Fear Instead Of Convictions
2016 Memorial Day – 2016
2015 A Handful Of Reviews
And You Can Quote Me
2014 Get Wisdom
2013 Enjoying The View?
2012 Adam’s Rib
2011 I’m Sure I Remember That…
Memorial Day, 2011

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
    —    Victor Hugo
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On This Day In:
2022 Stumbled On This Memory (Of High Notes)
2021 A Chance Meeting Finds A Way
Over 50 Years Ago!
2020 The Magnitude Of The Challenge
2019 Still Tearing, Still Being Rewarded
2018 Nothing More, Nothing Less
2017 Memorial Day – 2017
No Wonder I’m Smiling
2016 Thinking Science Fictional
2015 Dawn Is Coming
2014 Back When I Was A Firebrand
2013 Pen In Hand
Word Up!
2012 Disturbing
Trying To Keep Up
2011 Unreliable And Selective
2010 Adult-Onset Athlete

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The important thing is not to accomplish but to be in the process of accomplishing, to live, to feel, to love, to labor, to be fully alive in the awareness of the beauty and the tragedy of life.
    —     Gustav Mahler
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On This Day In:
2022 Smoldering Or Burning?
I’m Not Okay Either
2021 Make A Difference
What’s That Sound?
2020 Promise Her In Music
2019 But I’m Well Past 100 By Now
2018 Learn
Land Of The Free, Because Of The Brave
4 Appearances In A Row, 4 Wins To Go
2017 And Yet I’m Still Having Fun
2016 I See Coincidence Everywhere
CA3: Civil War
2015 I Resemble That Remark… (5!)
2014 The Writer’s Dilemma
2013 Just Paying The Rent
2012 Remembering…
2011 A Little Farther

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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
2021 Or These Days, On The Internet
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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Create no images of God.  Accept the images that God has provided.  They are everywhere, in everything.  God is Change — Seed to tree, tree to forest;  Rain to river, river to sea;  Grubs to bees, bees to swarm.  From one, many;  from many, one;  Forever uniting, growing, dissolving — forever Changing.  The universe is God’s self-portrait.
    ―     Octavia E. Butler
From her book:  “Parable of the Sower
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On This Day In:
2022 An Honorable Preference
2021 Very Young Or Very New
Feelin’ It
2020 Or To Destroy Democracy
2019 A Defense Of Liberty
2018 And Blog To Word Up To The Universe
The Irony Of Greed
2017 Or Revisiting A Blog Site
2016 Alas, Too Often The Latter
2015 Either / Or
2014 Memorial Day – 2014
Perfection
2013 Memorial Day Video
Equal = Equal
2012 Congrats, Nephew!!
Doggie Vision Networks
The Flash: Omnibus
JLI: vol 1
Flash: Rebirth
Burning Images
What Do You Believe?
2011 Are We Still At War With The Poor?

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
    ―     Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On This Day In:
2022 Dozing In The Backyard Hammock
10 (40)
2021 Still Learning (And Practicing) Guitar
Still Ain’t Quite Right
More Changes…
2020 Remembering…
You KNEW That Man Was Trippin’
2019 Kingslanding
2018 I’d Bet On Taxes
Ooops! I Spoke Too Soon
2017 A Cautionary Wish
2016 Slogging
It’s About…
Man / Man
2015 Memorial Day – 2015
Content People Love To Share
2014 I Resemble That Remark
2013 Long Range Exploration
2012 UBI
2011 Opportunity

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“I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out.  ‘All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.’
“Okay,” the young man challenged.  “So what’s the answer?”
“There isn’t one,” I told him.
“No answer?  You mean we’re just doomed?”  He smiled as though he thought this might be a joke.
“No,” I said.  “I mean there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems.  There’s no magic bullet.  Instead there are thousands of answers – at least.  You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
    —    Octavia E. Butler
From her essay for Essence Magazine titled:  “A Few Rules For Predicting The Future
[This quote can be found at multiple locations on the web.  The original source is not always cited.  I have not read the full magazine article / essay.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022 Strumming And Changing Chords
2021 B U
Blueprint Blue
2019 I Struggle With One At A Time
2018 An Infectious Political Cancer
Site Update / Poems Page Evolution
2017 Our Thirst
2016 History Favors The Victor
2015 This We’ll Leave Them
2014 Sounds Like Faux News To Me
2013 Reasons
2012 American Libertarianism
2011 The Goal

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