Quote Of The Day

Indecision may or may not be my problem.
- Jimmy Buffett -

Independence Day

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-Excerpted from a poem by Emma Lazarus, 1883, inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. -

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 -

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
- Jesse Jackson -

Thought For The Day

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The Journey

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One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice --

though the whole house

began to tremble

and you felt the old tug

at your ankles.

"Mend my life!"

each voice cried.

But you didn't stop.

You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried

with its stiff fingers

at the very foundations,

though their melancholy

was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do --

determined to save

the only life you could save.

~ Mary Oliver ~

Thought For The Day

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
- Anon. -

Poem For The Day

If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
and from thy slender store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy Hyacinths to feed thy Soul.

Thought For The Day

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.
- Joyce Brothers -

Poem For The Day

One ship sails east and another sails west
With the self-same winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sail and not the gale
Which determines the way they go.
As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate
As we voyage along through life,
Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -

Thought For The Day

You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great.
- Lee J. Colan -

Bits & Pieces

The "Rays" are in first place one year after they dropped the "Devil".....................hhmmmm.

Continuing my usher job, I saw Lyle Lovett and his Big Band on Saturday night at the Melody Tent. It was not something I would have paid to see, but it was very good. There was a little too much gospel music for my taste, and not enough country music, but he was very good. On the small Melody Tent revolving stage, he had 12 musicians and a 10 person gospel choir. When you see Lyle Lovett perform you know you're going to hear a little bit of every kind of music.

This week we see Melissa Etheridge on Tuesday, and Boz Scaggs on Saturday. Quite a combination.

The 31st Annual Dennis Road Race, the best small-town road race in America, is coming up on July 26th. Planning is well under way, and we expect another strong turnout.