“There is no graver threat to the process of discovery than that dread disease, ‘hardening of the categories.’” ~ Bob Miller Just push back from the table, use a little willpower. If you cared about your family you’d stop drinking. You […]

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Costs may be obvious, probable or unlikely yet acting without indecision without what-ifs without yielding to fear following the greater good — no matter the cost — may bring tragedy or honor glory or obscurity. But a life lived for a great […]

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I stepped on the cactus when? Two, three years ago? I backed over it, my foot covering the whole plant without even feeling it there. A weed to begin with, tiny, insignificant, only of value for tenacity in springing up […]

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… the knowledge I now have, it is hard for me to recall how screwy the whole thing sounded—the blind leading the blind, a union of drunks, all banded together in some kind of a spiritual belief! (Alcoholics Anonymous, Kindle Locations […]

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Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride. ~ Pietro Aretino (For Today, Kindle […]

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