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Thought For the Day: When We Try To Pick Out Anything By Itself, We Find It Hitched To Everything Else In the Universe

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” – John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (21 Apr 1838-1914)      

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Thought For the Day: The Real Hope Is Not In Something We Can Do, But In God, Who Is Making Something Good Out of It In Some Way We Cannot See

“The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.” – Thomas Merton      

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First Principles: We Must Not Let Our Rulers Load Us With Perpetual Debt

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson, in Letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816)   All of these trillions of dollars of debt we are currently incurring… When does the payment come … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Life Doesn’t Get Easier or More Forgiving, We Get Stronger and More Resilient

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”  – ― Steve Maraboli,  Life, the Truth, and Being Free    

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Thought For the Day: We Discover Our Greatness When We Find Ourselves In A Situation Bigger Than We Are and We Manage To Grow and Become Bigger Than the Situation

“We discover our greatness when we find ourselves in a situation bigger than we are and we manage to grow and become bigger than the situation.” – Luigina Sgarro    

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First Principles: If We Mean To Have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, We Should Have Learned Women

“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: We Are Too Great A Nation To Limit Ourselves To Small Dreams

“We are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter … Continue reading

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First Principles: We Must Not Let Our Rulers Load Us With Perpetual Debt

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)     Regardless of which side of the divide in politics we sit on, we should each recognize that leaving perpetual debt on our children’s … Continue reading

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The Arrow Shoots Straight

We can do nothing about our yesterdays.  We cannot do a whole lot about our tomorrows but prepare.  All we are promised and all that we have is this moment we breathe. The Arrow Shoots Straight by Michael Romani We … Continue reading

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Looking Forward With Clarity

Based in part on a 02022020 Sunday sermon.: Looking Forward With Clarity by Michael Romani If your eye is the light of darkness Not too speak too much in harshness But you won’t see so much with clarity That sometimes … Continue reading

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