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Quote of the Day for Sunday, April 19th

Quote of the Day: “And yet, being a practical man, I recognized a big difference between the mere affirmation of faith and its effective implementation. To desire harmony, or peace, or whatever word you care to give to the sense of identification with the orderly processes of life, would be a step in the rightContinue reading “Quote of the Day for Sunday, April 19th”

Quote of the Day for Thursday, April 16th

“If we choose to focus on things that bother us, we will never be at peace. We will be at the mercy of those around us. The serenity to accept the things we cannot change must involve the ability to be patient with these things and decide that they will not alter our state ofContinue reading “Quote of the Day for Thursday, April 16th”

Shared Reading: From Richard E. Byrd’s “Alone”

“But you must have faith- you must have faith in the outcome, I whispered to myself. It is like a flight, a flight into another unknown. You start and you cannot turn back. You must go on, trusting your instruments, the course you have plotted on the charts, and the reasonableness of events. Whatever goesContinue reading “Shared Reading: From Richard E. Byrd’s “Alone””

Quotes of the Day for Friday, March 20th

 “It’s impossible to begin to learn that which you think you already know,” Epictetus said “Only an idiot turns up their nose at how other people do things. Sure, nine times out of ten, you’re right and they’re wrong. But that one time? That’s the game changer.” Ben Franklin in Poor Richard’s Almanack