Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. Zig Ziglar Greetings, Dwellers! Happy December, happy Thanksgiving, happy soon-to-be close of the year, merry Christmas in advance, etc., etc. It’s been a busy time both personally and career-wise, with what one should expect from the season and by …
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. – Jesus, Matthew 26:41 Happy Palm Sunday, everyone. Today also just happens to be the 10th birthday of my youngest, which makes me and the missus officially old now that all of our kids have hit their double digits. I’ve been struck by something of late, …
Self-mastery is a long and exacting work. One can never consider it acquired once and for all. It presupposes renewed effort at all stages of life. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2342 No fancy title for this one. I intended to write this post last week, as it was one of the weekends bordering …
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose The …
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. P.J. O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World Another short non-post because, well, I thought it better to spend as much time with the missus as I could. So, I did. I promise, though, I’ll be back in action next week! …
Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back I’ve come to accept the fact that none of my ambitions get done if I’m not tracking them, and even then it’s difficult to keep on task if I’m not having someone keep me accountable. I have terrible discipline – something I’m …
I don’t care what you think unless it is about me. Kurt Cobain Here we are, at the end of our long journey together. It’s been… fun? Educational? Hopefully at least thought provoking? Either way, I want to thank those of you who have stuck it out along the way. The goal of this process …
Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes. Mokokoma Mokhonoana Five down, two to go. And the two we have left are doozies (Huh, that’s actually a word and that’s how you spell it, how about that?). I considered the first …
Isn’t it funny. I’m enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Janet Fitch, White Oleander Wrath. Unlike some of our previous expositions, everyone understands this one from the onset. We all have an image of Wrath, an anecdote or association that we can conjure at hearing the word. And, also unlike …
I have a soul of lead // So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I’d like to relay a bit of irony right off the bat. Every article written for this site – every single one of them – I wrote the day of publication. And every one …
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