Every Free And Fair Election Is A Risk – Vote Blue In November To Preserve American Democracy

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
―     Leo F. Buscaglia
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
―     Leo F. Buscaglia
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On This Day In:
2023	Folk Guitar
	Then We Probably Don’t Really Agree
2022	A Whole New Kind
2021	Yea, Spring!
	Smile On Your Brother (Get Together)
2020	Spoken And Shared
2019	Real Tools
	Three Cruelties
2018	United States
2017	Out Of Luck
2016	Wavelengths Of The Earth
2015	God Said What To You?
2014	Not Saying
2013	Ears And Tongue
2012	The Story Of Joe (Middle-Class Republican)
2011	Happy Birthday, Diana
	Depending On Kindness

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Tasting Risk

Life will break you.  Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.  You have to love.  You have to feel.  It is the reason you are here on earth.  You are here to risk your heart.  You are here to be swallowed up.  And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.  Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
––     Louise Erdrich
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On This Day In:
2023	Just Keep Hitting The Damned Keys
2022	Living In The Big Lie With A Loser
2021	An Obligation To Condemn Is Not An Obligation To Ban
	Caught In The Rain (Escape – The Piña Colada Song)
2020	Me Too
2019	#45: Whitewalkers Tremble, Treason Is Forever
2018	Light Or Darkness
2017	Doubtful Education
2016	Absolute
2015	Still The Best Teacher
2014	Inside The Soul
2013	A Toe In The River
2012	Believe It Or Not
2011	The Road To Recovery (And More Myths)

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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:
2023	A Balancing Act
2022	Truly And Simply
2021	Lessons
	We Used To Sing (Brown Eyed Girl)
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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No Regrets For Chances Not Taken

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.
—    H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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On This Day In:
2022	No Regrets For Chances Not Taken
2021	And Speak To Me
	Coming My Way (Everyday)
2020	If You Haven’t Done It Yet: VOTE!!
	I Agree (Affirmation)
2019	I’m Still Looking
2018	I Choose Love
	Courage Can Be Contagious
2017	Scary And Wonderful
2016	#AmnestyDon Hears The Polls
2015	Dare The Improbable
2014	All Together Now!
2013	This Road
2012	Profit
2011	God Is Personal
2010	Playoff Fever Gets the Best of Me…

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The Edge Of Today

Life can’t be taken so seriously that you live it without risk.  There are times in life, as in running and racing, when the only way to see tomorrow is to walk right up to the edge of today.
—     John “The Penguin” Bingham
From his book:  “No Need For Speed“
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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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Historians, Not Librarians

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
—    Warren Buffett
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On This Day In:
2023	You Get What You Pay For
2022	Historians, Not Librarians
2021	Inshallah
	Leave No Doubt (God Only Knows)
2020	A Choice
2019	Fill It Up
2018	Can We Talk About Me? (I Wanna Talk About Me)
2017	About Change
	Gordian
2016	Are Your Prayers Functioning?
2015	Expressing Love
2014	Cyclical Attitudes
2013	Footprints
2012	Broken Resolutions
	Bin It

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Still Dangerous

Derivatives are dangerous.  They have dramatically increased the leverage and risks in our financial system.  They have made it almost impossible for investors to understand and analyze our largest commercial banks and investment banks.
—     Warren Buffett
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On This Day In:
2022	At Least Pay A Fair Share
2021	Still Dangerous
	My Destiny (Could It Be I’m Falling In Love)
2020	Explaining And Gilding
	That Way (I Want It That Way)
2019	Lead To Action
2018	Listen And See
2017	The Big Illusion
2016	What Are You Thinking About?
2015	What The Framers Chose
2014	Lost Anything Lately?
	A Life Of Science
2013	Serve The World
2012	Acquaintance, n.
2011	On Why His Father Was A Great Teacher
	A Baker’s Dozen

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Risk Free

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.  He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.  Chained by his certitude, he is a slave;  he has forfeited his freedom.  Only the person who risks is truly free.
―     Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia
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On This Day In:
2022	The Path To Sheltered Treasure
2021	Why Do Republicans Seek To Destroy American Democracy?
	Namaste (True Colors)
2020	Michigan Countdown
	Risk Free
2019	Speak Up / Call Out
2018	Does Smiling Count?
2017	Giving Much
2016	Sounds Like Class
2015	Inert Ideas
2014	Worth Anything?
2013	Bruises Before Bed (Or Why You Didn’t Answer)
	Revealed Riches
2012	Extra Gears
2011	Say What?
2010	Hello Frogs…

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Still Willing

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
—    John W. Gardner
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On This Day In:
2023	Easing Into 2023
2022	A Crucial Skill
2021	Our Fate Is Up To Us
	Amazing Or Terrifying? (Do You Love Me?)
2020	Still Willing
2019	Another Prayer
2018	After Silence
2017	Are You Looking Forward To A Trump Presidency?
2016	Three Errors From Eureka
2015	Limiting Choices
2014	Praise The Lord And Pass The Hypocrisy
	That Sound
2013	Still Waiting For Answers
2012	Informal Leadership
2011	A Little More Progress
2010	Bec’s Gone Again…

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Just Two?

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.  People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
—    Peter Drucker
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On This Day In:
2022	People, Relationships And Experiences
2021	I Regret To Admit (I Do)
	Two Ways (Love On A Two Way Street)
2020	3rd November 2020
	He Sat Down And Opened Up His Mind (Old Dogs and Children, and Watermelon Wine)
2019	Just Two?
2018	I Resemble That Remark… (6!)
	Day 14: Two Weeks!
2017	Try It, You’ll Like It
2016	Echo Chamber?
2015	Embrace The World Like A Lover
2014	Democratic Beliefs (for the next President)
2013	And Go Now!
2012	A World Safe For Diversity
2011	What If I Don’t Want To?
2009	Restful Sunday and a Movie About Boys’ Dolls (Action Figures)

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Four Buffett’s

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
—    Warren Buffett
Price is what you pay.  Value is what you get.
—    Warren Buffett
Rule No.1:  Never lose money.  Rule No.2:  Never forget rule No.1.
—    Warren Buffett
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
—    Warren Buffett
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On This Day In:
2022	The Arc Of Justice Sometimes Bends Too Slowly
2021	Still Stumbling
	Make It Your Own… (Make Your Own Kind Of Music)
2020	#45: Diarrhea Of The Mouth, Constipation Of The Brain
	Not As Often As I Used To (I Gotta Get Drunk)
2019	Four Buffett’s
2018	Change Happens
	Day 13: Ginger / Mint Relief
2017	Still Removing Bricks
2016	Namaste
2015	Still Learning
2014	Dark Processes
2013	To The Last Link
2012	Slept In Again
2011	Home Again, Naturally
2009	Thoughts after a long day of OT…

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No Regrets

Grab a chance and you won’t be sorry for what might have been.
—    Arthur Ransome
[Maybe a few regrets…  But try to keep them to a minimum.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022	I Really Have Tried
2021	Your Best Heat
	Memphis Group (Green Onions)
2020	Me Too
2019	No Regrets
2018	In Times Of Crisis
	Genes, Desire And Luck
2017	The Voice Of Experience
2016	Who And When
2015	Change Process
2014	What Is Still Possible
2013	Strength Is There
2012	Beyond Reasonable Doubt
2011	Celebrating Values
2010	Is it just me, or is it suddenly dark around here?
	Dance!

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The Greatest Hazard

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
―    Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia
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On This Day In:
2022	Recovering From The #45 / COVID Induced Inflation / Recession
2021	Sift And Stir
	Some Oaktown Beat
2020	Reasons
2019	The Greatest Hazard
2018	Both Sides
2017	What, With, Where…
2016	Much Less
2015	True Wealth
	Still The King
2014	First Wishes
2013	Can’t I Just Use A Bigger Hammer?
2012	Entering Imagi-Nation
2011	Which Is Which
2010	Weekend Update – 4th of July 2010

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One A Day

Take a risk a day — a one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
—    Susan Jeffers
[Sarah, Happy Birthday!!
The best view is always from the edge…
Love Always,
Mum & Dad]
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On This Day In:
2023	Wishes For You…
2022	Finding Your Strength
2021	Step By Step Find Strength
	Keep Searching (Search For The Hero)
2020	Giving Thanks
2019	One A Day
2018	Try
2017	You’re Starting To Make Us Feel Old
2016	Focus (It Won’t Be Like This For Long)
2015	Challenging Legacy
2014	Happy 21st Birthday!
2013	Expectations
2012	Trust Him Smile
2011	Why Change?

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Great Risk

During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.  When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.
—    Søren Kierkegaard
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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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