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My POV
Brian A. Wilson
My dear ol' mother-in-law, Jean Wuyts-Phillips, passed away a few days ago. I was going to supply that as a reason for not posting a column this week, but she would have despised that notion.
A Wisconsin farmer for most of her 84 years, Jean's top priority was doing what needed to be done. Standing around didn't cut it. One of her favorite lines was, "If you can't find something to do, I'll find something for you."
My mind isn't in top form, so I will rely on my fellow writers and thinkers to provide some inspiration to you this week.
Enjoy.
Keep writing.
BW
LA
It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit. --The Talmud
I only write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. --Peter de Vries
All serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty
You are enough. Dennis Palumbo
Failure is not an option. Gene Kranz
Summoned or not, the god will come. -Motto over Carl Jung's house
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. -Willa Cather,, in O Pioneers!
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts. -Martin Ritt
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. -Les Brown
I went back to my office and sat in my swivel chair and tried to catch up on my foot-dangling. There was a gusty wind blowing in at the windows and the soot from the oil burners of the hotel next door was down-drafted into the room and rolling across the top of the desk like tumbleweed drifting across a vacant lot. I was thinking about going out to lunch and that life was pretty flat and that it would probably just as flat if I took a drink and that taking a drink all alone at that time of day wouldn't be any fun anyway. -Raymond Chandler, "The Big Sleep"
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