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Monday, March 28, 2016

Grief That Does Not Speak

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Monday, March 21, 2016

Vicissitude

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Monday, March 14, 2016

The Wide World

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The universe is wider than our views of it. -Henry David Thoreau 
Monday, March 7, 2016

The Chain We Forge

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"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," repl...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Jealousy

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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. -Shakespeare, Othello
Monday, February 22, 2016

Nobody's Perfect

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Monday, February 15, 2016

Backdraft

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I took a deep breath  and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Monday, February 8, 2016

The Next Act

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 It all seemed to him to have disappeared  as if behind a curtain at a theater.  There are such curtains that drop in life.  God is mov...
Monday, February 1, 2016

My People

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We shape our buildings;  thereafter they shape us. -Winston Churchill 
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...