Those frightened by a shadow of a doubt don't stand a ghost of a chance.
                                                                           ---Winston Churchill (attributed)

Are you familiar with the concept of Giving Tuesday? In the US, it's celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving.

You can learn a little bit about it, here:


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Everyone gives himself credit for more brains than he has.
                                                   ---Italian proverb

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
                                      ----Welsh proverb

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you are fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
                                                                       ---John Spence (attributed)

Do something today that your future self will be grateful for tomorrow and after.
                                                                          ---Anonymous

How many can keep a secret? ---One.
                                                       (Chinese proverb)

"...to be without friends is a serious form of poverty."
                                  ---Aloysius T. McKeever, philosopher

Often a clear conscience is only a poor memory.

More than a week ago, we had been doing some outdoor jobs and because the weather was still quite mild I had brought my wide-brim gardening hat out with me.
We ran an errand, and somehow after we got back I lost track of my hat. A look-see of the back seat of the car told me only that my hat wasn't there. I went through the entire house, looking at ( Read more... )