There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
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Month: February 2025
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Hope is a strange invention
by Emily Dickenson
Hope is a strange invention -A Patent of the Heart -
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out -
Of this electric adjunct
Not anything is known
But it’s unique momentum
Embellish all we own -Fr1424
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. – Thomas Szasz
Source: Words to the Wise
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Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Her ruminations about her husband’s death. I really don’t know that the fuss is about Didion. I find her writing annoy.
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Most of what we say and do is not necessary, and its omission would save both time and trouble. At every step, therefore, a man should ask himself, ‘Is this one of the things that are superfluous?’ Moreover, not idle actions only but even idle impressions ought to be suppressed; for the unnecessary action will not ensue. – Marcus Aurelius
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Clear your mind and get a hold on yourself and, as when awakened from sleep and realizing it was only a bad dream upsetting you, wake up and see that what’s there is just like those dreams. – Marcus Aurelius
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Steve Forbert
Went to see Forbert at the Jammin Java. Excellent as usual. The keyboardist was a nice addition. I particularly liked the songs he played accordion on. He finished the show with an excellent version of January, 1978.
From a few years ago.