obstacle.....................

 

The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today.

-attributed to Seneca

On this day in 1920...............

.....................The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks as our hero, was released in New York.

 

On lurching..........................

 In Gettysburg I still feel close to my grandparents, and I still go to these rolling hills for reflection.  Yet so much has changed since that time—not just the disappearance of the Stuckey's souvenir shops or the Rexall drugstore on Gettysburg's main square—the fabric of our society today has a different texture than it did in the 1950s:  some of it stronger but much of it badly frayed.

      Engaging one's deepest self was easier in those days—with long waits between letters and long-distance phone calls deferred until Sunday when the rates were cheaper.  Today, tethered to smartphones and transfixed by Twitter and Instagram, we lurch from one demand to another with scarcely a moment to think.  Our impulses are reactive, not considered.  They are short-term rather than strategic.  We have lost our capacity to act in the present while thinking into the future.  We are struggling.

-Susan Eisenhower, from her Introduction to How Ike Led:  The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions

The care and feeding......................

.....................................................of the goose that lays the golden eggs.   Our check is in the mail.

Primary elections in Ohio today........

Do vote.

Today...................................

     Today is a really good time to take an action, to start working on some changes you desire, to create your definitive personal development plan, to... Yesterday is learning and reflection.  Tomorrow is planning.  Today is action:  today is where You, Only Better is created.
-Nicolas Bate,  You, Only Better:  Find Your Strength, Be the Best and Change Your Life

Good luck...............................

Can I get an Amen.........................?

thanks e-man

Today vs Tomorrow...............

"If you are selling tomorrow, be very careful not to pitch people who are only interested in buying things that are about today. It's virtually impossible to sell financial planning or safety or the long-term impacts of the environment to a consumer or a voter who is relentlessly focused on what might be fun right now."
-Seth Godin

Impenetrable folds..................

"We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson