“The freedom of death is the ultimate compensation for the misery of life.” – Steven Magee

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

August 28

'This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions. One thing he always teaches is that there is rottenness where he appears. He is a carrion crow; and although you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere. Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid. Fear for ages has boded and mewed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.'

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

“A baby fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.” - Anonymous

27 August

“A baby fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.” - Anonymous

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

An infallible, universal characteristic of babies and losers is that they want what they want NOW, not a week from Tuesday, not in five minutes.

The good news is, babies will grow up!

“One day you’ll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.” - R. M. Drake

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

August 27

Lincoln was troubled by a proneness to depression, a fascination with madness. He was afraid that it could happen to him. He did not drink because whiskey left him, as he himself said, feeling ‘flabby and undone.’ Arguably one of his personal 3 AM demons [we all have 3 AM demons, don't we?] would threaten the destruction of his own reason, leaving him spinning in a mindless vortex without the power either to comprehend or gainsay.

'Fear knocked, Faith answered, and nobody was there.' 

- Anonymous

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” - Aesop

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

26 August

We live in a world of inter-locking dependencies. Thus

·      I accept gratefully the parenting I need as and when I perceive it offered;

·      I offer generously the parenting I can as and when I perceive it needed.

“Even when I’m sick and depressed, I love life.” – Artur Rubenstein

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

August 26

 ‘Mr. President, I’m from New York State where we believe that God Almighty and Abraham Lincoln are going to save this country.’ Hearing this remark, Lincoln smiled and nodded. ‘My friend,’ he said, ‘you’re half right.’

‘Never confuse your net worth with your self worth.’

- Anonymous