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Quotes To Ponder ~Amelia Boone
“No one owes you anything.” “I’m not the strongest. I’m not the fastest. But I’m really good at suffering.” ~Amelia Boone (Only three-time winner of the World’s Toughestest Mudder 2012, 2014, & 2015. And she’s done a lot more.) Continue reading
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Quotes to Ponder ~Tzu, Krishnmurti, Foster
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~Lao Tzu “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~J. Krishnmurti “In The end, winning is sleeping better.” ~Jodie Foster Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Pierre-Marc-Gaston
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ~Pierre-Marc-Gaston Continue reading
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Quotes to Ponder ~Vonnegut and Auden
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things — he people on the edge see them first.” ~Kurt Vonnegut “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.” ~W.H. Auden Continue reading
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Resolutions,Rituals,Goals, Tasks and Course Correcting
Easy to forecast that there will be about a million articles, blog posts, Facebook statuses and tweets dealing with New Year’s Resolutions. There will be triple the number of opinions on doing them or not doing…how you should do them or how you shouldn’t do them…why you should do them or why shouldn’t do them that… Continue reading
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A Call for a New Strenuous Age
A Call for a New Strenuous Age, ~The Art of Manliness | Repost Note: All quotes, unless otherwise noted, are taken from No Place for Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 by T. J. Jackson Lears “Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.” –Flannery O’Connor To look… Continue reading
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Tolkien’s Lost “Noel”
“NOEL” by J. R. R. Tolkien Grim was the world and grey last night: The moon and stars were fled, The hall was dark without song or light, The fires were fallen dead. The wind in the trees was like to the sea, And over the mountains’ teeth It whistled bitter-cold and free, As a… Continue reading
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Tis The Season To…Bulletproof
It’s been sitting on my kitchen counter for almost a week now. All the while, Christmas movies have been playing in the evenings for every night this week. Even the weather has been inspirational with cold nights and crisp mornings. Finally, this morning, my wife took the initiative and made two cups of hot chocolate… Continue reading
Chase The Kangaroo 