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Some of us were ambivalent, but we don’t do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. (February 24, 1991). Thinking Out Loud, p. 177, Random House (1993).
On anti-war sentiment during the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars.
After watching Jack leave his brown paper lunch bag on his lap, unopened, a caring teacher takes him aside to coax him to eat. She opens his lunch bag. She is horrified to see what’s inside.
A crumpled ball of newspaper.
Jack had put it in the bag to make it look like there was food inside.
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For every $25 donation, we can provide enough food for 75 meals for children and families in need. On behalf of the children in Nebraska and western Iowa, thank you.
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Good Morning & Happy FNP,
What shall I do today?
Today is Friday 08/09/V3.4 & we are just 10 months away from my Birthday.
Well I went to an unnamed restaurant for breakfast. Then I went to the bank. I didn’t get any money. Apparently they need some form of identification, for the record you don’t need you operators license to drive a car. You only need to have one authorized & valid.
I was then going to go to target & get me some supplies. So the moral of the story. When you don’t have to do anything. don’t!
I will retry it again later today, I’ve got a feeling that it will be a nap time. I’m going to do it my way though, not anyone else’s way.
The word of the day is finagle which is to trick, swindle, or cheat.
I’m watching The Morning Blend right now. Mary & Mike are talking about City Sprouts. Visit Omaha Sprouts for more information.
There are IV movies opening this weekend, I won’t be seeing any of them.. IF someone where to call me and ask me if I wanted to go see a movie, I could do Percy Jackson, but that someone would have to be special.
We are over 200 words, I think we have shared enough.
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us may realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.) (b. 1924), U.S. president. Address at Commencement Exercises at Notre Dame University, May 22, 1977, Public Papers of the Presidents: Jimmy Carter, Vol. 1977, Book 1, p. 958, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office (1977).
His version of the idea that “the pen is mightier than the sword.”
Good Evening & Happy Friday Eve.
Well you’ve waited hours for this.
Let’s get to the math.
8 squared is what?
13 squared is what?
That’s how you got 233.
You’re WeLcOmE!
I think the main thing, don’t you, is to keep the show on the road.
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), British novelist, story writer, essayist, and memoirist; born in Ireland. As quoted in Elizabeth Bowen, ch. 13, by Victoria Glendinning (1979).
On being asked by television interviewer James Mossman, near the end of her life, “what her feelings were about aging—and, by implication, about death.” (Soon afterward, Mossman committed suicide.).
Good Morning & Happy Thursday,
Everyone gets a bonus shift today with Vernon J
Today is Thursday 08/08/V3.1 and it is 233.
For everyone who came for the news of my complete breakfast. I’ll get there.
I bet you are wondering what the 233 is and how I came to it. There is math involved and it involves today’s short date. I’ll let you chew on that for a bit, if you can’t figure it out. We’ll post an answer here real soon. Sometime after the 2200 news, I’m going to make you wait. & I know you:
I Know You Don’t Want to Wait, but this is how the news do it & if it is good enough for them. It is good enough for you.
The word of the day is waif is a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
Okay, not that you read though all of the less important. I made oatmeal in that pot that had heating water in it. You’re welcome.
What are you doing today? Even though I work until 14.30 I think I can still squeeze in my Thursday Laundry Day. Let’s see.
Vernon J going back to the way things were.
ALIVE & WELL!
The true critic is a scrupulous avoider of formulae; he refrains from statements which pretend to be literally true; he finds fact nowhere and approximation always.
T.S. Eliot
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), U.S.-British modernist poet. Eliot’s doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 7, Columbia University Press (1964).
Good Morning & Happy Wednesday,
A million Five units left before the end of the work week. That’s XIX hours, I’ll let you do the math to figure out how big a unit is.
Today is Wednesday 08/07/V3.4 & we are not done yet.
Never be done when there is time.
This story is pathetic, so someone’s sun goes to the hospitial and it gets news coverage. I tuned out cause there is MORE important things to worry about.
So yup, there shall be work, home, work, home today. Nothing extraordinary today. That doesn’t mean we won’t have an awesome day.
I challenge you to Make It so!
The word of the day is holograph which is wholly written by the person in whose name it appears.
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values—an identification which alone makes it possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.
Sarah Patton Boyle
Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962).
Boyle, a white Virginian, had publicly advocated integration despite great opposition, social isolation, and threats of violence.