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I write so I’ll know what I’m thinking

"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

— William Ellery Channing

"Tommy Joe, don't take any wooden nickels."

— Dolly Hale (my Mom)

"Three o'clock is always too late, or too early,
for anything you want to do."

— -Jean Paul Sartre,"

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

—Anais Nin

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

—Chinese Proverb

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

—Mark Twain

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

— Vivian Greene

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

—Vince Lombardi

"Every charitable act is a step toward heaven."

— Unknown

The nine scariest words in the English language: I'm from the government and I'm here to help

— Ronald Reagan

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and
an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

""As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other is for helping others."

— Audrey Hepburn

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"There is no love, there are only proofs of love."

— Pierre Reverdy

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself
makes you fearless."

— Lao Tzu

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."

— Confucius

"The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence.

All passes; nothing returns."

— Ellen Glasgow

"You never know how strong you are,
until being strong is your only choice."

— Christina Cuomo

"Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them but you know they are there"

— Christy Evans

"Tell and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

— Benjamin Franklin

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

—Christopher Columbus

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

— Plato

"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."

— Walt Disney

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

—Charles Swindoll

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

— Albert Einstein

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

— Cicero

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

—Buddha

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit."

— Aristotle

"Success is a lousy teacher.
It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

— Bill Gates

"There is always a barrier between me
and someone who does not like dogs."

— Ellen Glasgow

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there,
leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
— J.D. Salinger

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

— Dolly Parton

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

—Henry Ford

"We become what we think about."

— Earl Nightingale

"The heart has reasons the brain know nothing of."

- Blaise Pascal

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection

we can catch excellence."

— Vince Lombardi

"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words"

— Unknown

"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."

— Unknown

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"An unexamined life is not worth living."

—Socrates

"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day,
as each day came."

— Abe Lincoln

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude."

— Maya Angelou

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

— John Burroughs

"When I was 5 years, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

— John Lennon

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."

—Ancient Indian Proverb

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

—Aristotle

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

— George Addair

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible
into the visible."

— Tony Robbins

"Cruel, but composed and bland, dumb, inscrutable and grand.
So Tiberius might have sat, had Tiberius been a cat."

— Matthew Arnold

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

— Samuel Johnson

“What’s Wrong With Me?”

Why have they got me in this awful place,
with padded walls, it’s such a disgrace.

Look at the way I dress and you’ll see,
there’s absolutely nothing wrong with me.

I dressed myself, and ain’t I neat,
check this out, we’ll start at my feet.

See, both of my socks are on just right,
blue’s on the left, red’s on the right

Sandals on the left, the straps are all clean,
boot on the right, camouflage green.

Check out the pants with the zipper in the back,
right where it goes, straight up the crack.

Get a load of this shirt, it’s Hawaiian you see,
I bought it last Christmas in Alaska for me.

It’s even got a pocket, thats useful you see,
I hide all my crayons, or they’ll take them from me.

So, now I ask you face to face,
should I be here in the damn place?

There’s nothing wrong, nothing needs fixin’
why, in ‘72 I voted for Nixon.

–Phil McCoy

Books I’m Reading

Camino Winds by John Grisham

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins ****

A Country Doctor by Sarah O. Jewett

I Ching: The Book of Change by David Hinton

Profiles in Audacity by Alan Axelrod

The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider

Unqualified by Anna Faris **

Get Happy (Judy Garland) by Gerald Clarke ***½

Web Things to Read

Your Health A to Z

How Cancer Changes Hope

A Definition of Blockchain

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Find out how stuff works

Search For Clinical Trials

IRS Tax Brackets for 2020

Find Any Info On 50 States USA

It’s Time to Talk About Death

Time and Date World Clock

COVID Dashboard

COVID-19 In Virginia

List of My 5 Star Movies

Dolittle (for kids ****)

In A Valley Of Violence (western) ***

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ****

Yesterday ****

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