“Behold, this dreamer cometh.” – The Bible

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

28 July

The only vision that counts comes from the light we radiate toward one another. So don't put yours under a bushel – the rest of us can’t afford it!

“The riddles of God are far more interesting than the solutions of man.” - G. K. Chesterton

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

July 28

“It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future. Act now, without delay.” - Simone de Beauvoir

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

27 July

At age 91 Winston Churchill could well have looked back on a life replete with unmitigated failure. Defeated at the polls at the very end of a world war he was so instrumental in winning, he returned to the back benches as head of the Opposition, and once again he was a lone voice crying out in the wilderness, this time decrying the threat of Stalin's voracious, unprincipled Soviet Union in the 1950’s as he had against the threat of Hitler’s voracious, unprincipled Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.

An unabashed imperialist, he sat impotently by as the British Empire withered into that toothless PR construct known as The British Commonwealth - Britain as a world power was finished. He lived the vast majority of his life in the wilderness as a member of the opposition and, if he weren’t careful would have gone to his grave thinking his life a failure.

The rest of us knew, though, that there were a few months during those 91 years, from the spring of 1940 on, when he stood alone on the bulwarks of civilization itself against the bottomlessly evil and immensely powerful threat of Nazism.

Hey, he wasn’t a failure after all!

The moral of the story: in 1940 he was THE right man for the job, and all of us, and all of our posterity, owe this man a debt of gratitude of incalculable proportions.

“We teach people how to remember, not how to grow.” - Oscar Wilde

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

July 27

“Kings have always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally if not always that the good of the people was the object.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.” – Anonymous

 From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

26 July

“Be patient. Life comes at you at its own pace, and doesn’t take kindly to your pushing the water uphill any more than it does to your pushing it downhill.” – Arnold Kunst

“Know thyself.” - Socrates

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

July 26

“History is not history unless it is the truth.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Magnificence is our destiny.” - Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

25 July

Life can be so tenuous. Without any trouble at all you and I are reduced to huddling together, exposed on the tip of the planet, hoping against hope that we’ll just survive. That, combined with our own innate, bottomless casual furies, more than fuels our fears which in turn richly pollute all our deepest urges.

How pitiable, how magnificent, is man!