Otherwise.............................

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Fifty years ago.......................

The Chambers Brothers.......................Time Has Come Today



This eleven minute classic was released in 1967.  It was still high on the music charts in 1968.  Lyrics here.

On rest...................................

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”   
-John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

Crucial..............................

"Some of the most crucial conversations you will ever have will be with yourself.   Slow down sufficiently to make this possible."
-as extracted from here

Later..........................................

We are.....................we will............................

Trying to slow down................................................

"Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.  You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life."
-Dallas Willard

Port Clinton, Ohio...Wednesday...6:05 am...

The sun rises over Lake Erie

My view for most of yesterday........................

Gonna try this today.............................

Will report back tomorrow................................

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On taking............................................

........................................................sometimes it is appropriate.

Need to recharge. Back later..................

Too busy to blog......................................?

................not really, but here's a story on competitive busyness.  You can go ahead and win.  It's alright by me.

Back shortly................................................

There have been more than........................

...........a few times I wish I had followed this bit of advice:

"If possible, move slowly on decisions which are hard or impossible to reverse and more quickly on those which can be easily reversed."

More wisdom can be found here.

Gone golfing, shopping, visiting..................

Talk with you later...................................................

On sleeping on it.......................

"As my father told me back when I was first learning about handling money, 'Any decision about money that you can’t sleep on — or haven’t slept on — is one that you’re not ready to make.' ”
-Chuck Jaffe

Mystery of the missing................

..........Courthouse clock hands has been solved.  Story here.

Does anybody really know what time it is...?

Suddenly, the hands on the Courthouse clock have gone missing.