My 2023 setting of The Lord’s Prayer
My 2023 song about toddler Hannah Suzanne
Weidenbachers’ Romance-
A 2021-
My 2019 song about the town I love living in, and why.
My 2022 re-
My 2017 song about Girlfriend #1 way back when, 60 years later.
Words, Words, Words
Link to the Cincinnati Museum’s PDF 23-
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.
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“Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise.”
(Proverbs 22:17)
Sources can be found on Google
For all your days prepare,
And meet them ever alike:
When you are the anvil, bear-
When you are the hammer, Strike.
Edwin Markham
Without a moral compass, we are lost.
Without at least one exemplar, we are alone and lost.
When in doubt, ask, “What would [my exemplar] do?”
If you don’t have a worthy exemplar, get one.
Be bold. Be bold. Be not too bold. (Greek adage)
STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN. Always, not only when crossing a street.
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become YOUR WORDS.
Keep your words positive because your words become YOUR BEHAVIOR.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes YOUR HABITS.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become YOUR VALUES.
Keep your values positive because your values become YOUR DESTINY.
Mohatma Gandhi
I didn’t understand why the ball was getting bigger and bigger.
And then it hit me.
Eschew the Seven Deadly Sins:
Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth
“Judge not, that ye be not judged…. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
God, grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change...
Courage to change the things I can,
And Wisdom to know the difference.
Allow distractions to deepen your concentration.
Abraham Lincoln is known to have been heavily influenced by Euclid and his mathematics. He kept a copy of Euclid’s Elements (about Geometry) next to his bed to study it. He said that he learned how to reason thanks to Euclid and recent research proves the connection between his speeches and Euclid.
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Know Thyself
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Beware of unearned wisdom. Carl Jung
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Aristotle divided friendship into three different types, according to whether it was motivated by utility, pleasure, or virtue.
When it became clear he was going to lose the game, chessmaster Aron Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, “Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!” (That I should lose to this idiot!').
