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Monday, January 25, 2016

Resisting the Unravelling

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It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you.
Monday, January 18, 2016

In Another's Eyes

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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days,  and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought,  unl...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Pleasures

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One half of the world  cannot understand  the pleasures of the other.   - Jane Austen
Monday, January 4, 2016

Origins

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes,  but to follow virtue and knowledge.  - Dante Alighieri 
Monday, December 28, 2015

Little Things

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Little things comfort us because little things distress us.  - Blaise Pascal 
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Wiser Today

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A man should never be ashamed to own  that he has been in the wrong,  which is but saying in other words  that he is wiser today t...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Now To Think

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And now I thought:  till now I had only heard, seen, moved -  followed up or down where I was lead or dragged -  watched event rush on ...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Bravery in Increments

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When you have mastered numbers,  you will in fact no longer be reading numbers any more than you read words when you read books.  You w...
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...