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The deepest need of man is to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness.' - Eric Fromm

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what I'm reading now

Here's a book about how the far right conservatives have managed to persuade the American working people to vote against their own interests.

insightful analysis 

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
-- Lord Byron

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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

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Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
-- J. S. Bryan

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Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. -
- Clifton Fadiman

tara's first job

Service with a smile is Tara's motto as she serves us at Quizno's sandwich shop. 

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'If we wish to understand the nature of reality, we have an inner hidden advantage: we are ourselves a little portion of the universe and so carry the answer within us.'
- Jacques Boivin

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For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
-- Marilyn C. Barrick

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The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
-- Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

life on fast forward

Dennis, a fellow letter carrier, told me about an article he read on the web explaining why time seems to pass faster as we age than when we were young. The article states that when we're older we are learning less and having fewer new life experiences and this causes time to seem to be passing quicker.
So when I retire, to keep my remaining life from fast forwarding like a video tape, I'll have to keep learning and having new experiences? It's too late to join the Army and become an Airborne Ranger, and besides I wouldn't want to embarrass those younger guys who couldn't keep up with me. I don't think I have the time to go back to school and pursue brain surgery or rocket science, besides, with my short term memory I would probably leave some medical hardware in someone's brain or in the case of rocket science, the space probe to Uranus would probably find an anatomically correct target but be geographically off the mark.
I guess I'll grow a garden and sell tomatoes by the side of the road. Marley Kate and Hunter can help. Tara and Sam use to like to do that with me. And then there's travel. I've yet to see the world's largest ball of twine, or the Petrified Forest. The readers of this blog will be looking forward to those photos, I'm sure.

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True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
Mignon McLaughlin