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10/20/10

Music Break: Johnny Cash

Daddy Sang Bass...


with The Carter Family and The Statler Brothers
Live TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGUP8oc9Bgs

Quote of the Day: Robert H. Schuller

Good decisions withstand a time of delay, while a bad decision-making moment passes...

"Never cut down a tree in wintertime. Never make a decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be Patient. The storm will pass. Spring will come."

Robert H. Schuller

Thinking Out Loud

Better to hold your tongue...

Lately I've been growing impatient with people and their interpretation of the world, mainly because it's my belief we're living in a period that history will look back on as an era of monumental change socially, economically and politically. I'm not sure anyone ever fully grasps, while entering an epoch of a new period, the tremendous significance of what they are passing through, understanding fully what is happening in that moment of time. That includes me, although I am aware we are in historical passage, how it will transpire is not in my capacity to view while living within it.

Since I am convicted we are moving through an age of unique characteristics that seems so obvious to me, my frustration is twofold. First, my natural curiosity is to know what I cannot possibly know and that is what the present will bring forward to the future. Secondly I am intolerant of the time it takes for other people to see what I do, and conversely I'm aware there are others who see more than I do. On the former I want to impetuously tell people that I consider them late at arriving to conclusions that seem obvious to me. This is not only arrogant but would be an exercise in futility if carried out. People arrive at their own awareness at their own time in their own way. It is not for me to determine when that it is.

I'm reminded of the advice my father used to give me, which he himself had to struggle to follow: "Son, sometimes the best time for you not to say anything at all, is when you feel as if you absolutely have to. It will wait and come out a whole lot better if you do."

Urban Landscape

Trees from the ground up...