Thought For The Day

Be gentle to all and stern to yourself.
- Saint Teresa -

Thought For The Day

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything
you want to do.
- Jean Paul Sarte -

Babe Ruth

"I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't got enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists, men who deserved a great following - and I have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

I'm proud of my profession. I like to play baseball. I like fans too......but I think they yelled too loudly and yelled for the wrong man.

Most of the people who have really counted in my life were not famous. Nobody ever heard of them exept those who knew and loved them.

I knew an old priest once........how I envy him. He was not trying to please a crowd. He was merely trying to please his own immortal soul......so fame never came his way.

I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base."
- Babe Ruth -

Thought For The Day

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures'
- Horace Greeley -

Poem For The Day

No fate could rob us of our own,
No circumstance can make it less;
What time removes was but a loan,
For what was ours we still possess.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -

Thought For The Day

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth -

Race Planning

Planning is well under way for the 31st Annual Dennis Road Race, the most perfect small-town road race in America. As always, it will be held on the last Saturday in July, this year it's July 26th.

Tonight, I attended a meeting of the Dennis Recreation Commission from 6-7 PM to make sure our race preparations are going smoothly, and then a meeting of the Cape Cod Athletic Club from 7-8:30 to promote the race to the largest runner's club on Cape Cod. Hopefully, all the hard work by many people will pay off with another successful race. I'll keep everyone updated.

Thought For The Day

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz -

Thought For The Day

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- Horace Walpole -

Election 2008

It has been a while since we focused on the election. Having the spotlight to himself doesn't seem to be helping McCain too much. I guess when you're on the wrong side of nearly every key issue, all the free publicity in the world won't help you.

Clinton and Obama are still battling with two primaries coming up tomorrow in Indiana and North Carolina. They will probably split, and settle nothing. However, Clinton is gaining in the polls in North Carolina. If she can pull an upset, she might get enough superdelegates to go her way and give her the edge she needs.

It has been about 40 years since a nominee was actually selected at the convention, but it looks like it will happen this year. It seems unlikely that either of them will drop out of the race before the convention. I disagree with the experts who think this long process is hurting the Democrats. Whoever wins will unite the party and be very hard to beat in November.

Meanwhile, here in Dennis, we have our Town Meeting tomorrow night. We are voting to have either a tax override, which means a permanent tax increase, or a debt exclusion, which means a one-time tax increase that will ned to be voted on every year. Either way, our taxes are going up. What a choice! Unfortunately, after many years of poor management, the town's infrastructure is falling apart and we need more money in the budget. It's just a matter of how we choose to finance it. I'm in favor of a permanent increase because it's much easier to plan a budget, with long-term goals, if you know how much money will be available each year. And, the Dennis-Yarmouth School District is asking for more money to avoid layoffs. It should be very interesting.

By the way, did everyone read the George Sheehan essay of a couple of days ago?

Thought For The Day

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
- Gore Vidal -