Simple thoughts

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~ President Theodore Roosevelt
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Soul

Anybody can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie.
~ Willa Cather
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So very sad

You can’t go to a SUPER BOWL PARADE, a bowling alley, to a restaurant, to work, to the mall, to a grocery store, to your church, to the movies or the bank. 

You can’t attend a concert, go to a dance class or go to see your doctor. 

You can’t ring a doorbell, use a leaf blower, hop in a car, pull down a driveway, bounce a ball, or ask the neighbor to keep it down. 

You can’t check out a farmer’s market or pick up a package at the post office or go to a Fourth of July parade, and you certainly can’t send your kids to school without worrying that someone will get shot. 

That someone you LOVE will get shot. 
Or that YOU will get shot. 
This is where we are now. 
This is not normal. 

This upside down reality is being imposed upon us by those who equate firearms with freedom. 

This is anything BUT freedom. 

And. This. Is. Not. A. Reality. We. Have. To. Accept. 

I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS REALITY. 
~ Jo on Twitter

Context note - today February 14, 2024 - after the KC Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade, a moron opened fire on the crowd, killing one and wounding 11 to 20 (numbers are not final at this time)
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Food for thought...

What people think success is:
  • Making lots of money 
 What success actually is:
  • Being healthy
  • Having morals
  • Not being a dick
  • Being a good friend
  • Owning your own time
  • Being present with family
  • Being authentic to yourself
  • Working on something meaningful
~ Dan Go
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Lessons to learn

The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think.When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt.
 
 We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.
~ Richard Feynman
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I'm gonna meditate on this for a few days...

  • Positivity is a CHOICE
  • Happiness is a CHOICE
  • Giving back is a CHOICE
  • Being honest is a CHOICE
  • Showing gratitude is a CHOICE
  • Respecting yourself is a CHOICE
  • Being kind to everyone is a CHOICE
The older I get the more I see life is simply what we CHOOSE to make it. 

~ Tyler Todt
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Ha!

If 'ifs' were fifths, then we'd all be drunk

~ heard on a sports TV show

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Indeed

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable

~ Socrates

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Good advice

Do not use your energy to worry. 
Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow. 
~ Richard Feynman
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True

If you are not too long,

I will wait here for you

all the days of my life.

~ Oscar Wilde

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Yep

I loved her against reason,
against promise, against peace,
against hope, against happiness,
against all discouragement 
that could be.
~ Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations
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As usual!

Brenda:  Are you drunk?

George: [scoffs] Not nearly enough!

~ from Young Sheldon

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