Remembrance

"Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains." -Adlai Stevenson

Memorial Day parade downtown this morning :)

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Cruising

"Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving." -Albert Einstein. What a smart guy.

Headed back to CoMo after festivities in Boonville -- including the new Cooper's Oak store and Split Lip Rayfield :)

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Trail Ride

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine." -John Howard. Powering Jake the Snake to Boonville and back this weekend for the Pedaler's Jamboree. 75+ miles of good times.

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Flipper

"...a trained dolphin can sell for as much as $150,000." -from a Time review of The Cove. Watched it last night; pretty gruesome stuff.
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Hello, Strawberries!

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." -Charles Dickens
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For Better and Worse

"If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate." -John Ciardi
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Bitter Valediction

"The glorious business of the University is not limited to seeking truth, but necessarily includes the search for meaning, a striving to understand from multiple perspectives what it is to be authentically human." -from an essay on the recent and unfortunate events at the Univeristy; by RBS Director and English Professor M.F. Suarez. A few days late but still thought provoking.
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