Mute

"You sound like a 13-year-old boy." -Matt's reaction to my cracking voice this morning. Now, it's all I can do to get out a whisper...
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Today

"Have a nice day. Have a memorable day. Have a (however unlikely) a life-changing day." -Lou Lipsitz

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Principles

"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body." -Walt Whitman
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Going Home

"Sunset at the end of a rough week. While we won't be coming back to the same place, we're definitely coming back to a stronger community." -caption on a photo of Los Alamos.

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Milestones

"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." -a letter from Amelia Earhart to her husband; her (unsuccessful) flight round the world was 74 years ago yesterday.
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Uncontrolled

"For the time being, it seems unlikely that Las Conchas will burn LANL or Los Alamos. But the fire is only 3 percent contained. As of Friday, it had destroyed 103,842 acres." -get the details of New Mexico's biggest wildfire at Outside.com.
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Lost Kids

Sign at Gabriel's, a restaurant north of Santa Fe: Unattended Children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.
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