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Monday, November 30, 2015

Les is More

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Have a great day. -Les Miles
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Monday, November 23, 2015

Your Reward

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And he writhed inside  at what seemed the cruelty  and unfairness of the demand.  He had not yet learned that if you do one good dee...
Monday, November 16, 2015

The Heroine's Couch

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And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch,  which is the true heroine's portion -  to a pillow strewd with thorns and...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Happy Now

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If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy 
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Monday, November 2, 2015

In the Shadow of the Black Horse

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The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart  upon the black horse of affliction. - Charles Spurgeon
Monday, October 26, 2015

She Who Travels with Another (& Another)

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another  must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau 
Monday, October 19, 2015

Late Nights with Yeti and Nietzsche

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When we are tired,  we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. -  Friedrich Nietzsche
Monday, October 12, 2015

Midnight Confessions

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all,  when he kneels in the dust,  and beats his breast,  and tells all the sins...
Monday, October 5, 2015

The Virtue of Displeasure

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If you would attain to what you are not yet,  you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself,  ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Holes & Lumps

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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. -Auguste Rodin 
Monday, September 21, 2015

Eighty-Nine Years of Song

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  Even in the mud and scum of things,  something always, always sings.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Monday, September 14, 2015

Notes on Irrigation

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provide...
Monday, September 7, 2015

If There Were Only Joy

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We could never learn to be brave and patient,  if there were only joy in the world. -Helen Keller
Monday, August 31, 2015

A Word Before School

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It is the mark of an educated mind  to be able to entertain a thought  without accepting it.  -Aristotle 
Monday, August 24, 2015

The Problem with People

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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. - Dante Ali...
Monday, August 17, 2015

One More Time

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The right time  is any time  that one is still so lucky as to have. - Henry James
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Monday, August 10, 2015

The Summer Straddle

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I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death,  just because I couldn't make up my mind  which of the fi...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Redeeming Ruth

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If you can't explain it to a six year old,  you don't understand it yourself. -Albert Einstein
Monday, July 27, 2015

Pretty Woman

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It takes some effort to look like this. -Truvy Jones
Monday, July 20, 2015

Simplify

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Our life is frittered away by detail.   Simplify, simplify.   -Henry David Thoreau