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Recently I was invited to a thrilling Saturday afternoon trip to one of my least-favorite places on earth: the budget department store. I would name it, but Target doesn’t need any more free advertising. I was at a friends house about to … Continue reading
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Inspiring thought for a beautiful spring day
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who … Continue reading
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Don’t ever give up
Truth is always pure. The subject matter or the person speaking are not important. Most of the time. For those of you that may not follow college basketball, this is a video of Jim Valvano accepting the 1993 ESPY award for … Continue reading
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The Middle Part
I have belted out quite a few thoughts on minimalism over the past year or so. Let’s take a break from our regularly scheduled program and talk about the middle-aged part. Things start to hurt for no apparent reason. I’m … Continue reading
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Thoughts for an end-of-winter day
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take … Continue reading
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Danger
As this beautiful November day slips into tomorrow I would like to share one of my favorite quotes. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. … Continue reading
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Something to get you through the heat.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed … Continue reading
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Thought for a summer day
The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, “Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.” And the sign that something’s … Continue reading
Thought for the weekend …
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. J. Brotherton
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Thought for the day
To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and … Continue reading
