Quote-of-the-day from yesterday’s calendar:<\/p>\n
Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. –Thomas Carlyle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which strikes a chord with me, albeit in a fuzzy late-Friday-afternoon kind of way.<\/p>\n
And it’s not to say that we should never look into the distance. It’s important to think about it a little. But unless you’re the Hubble Telescope, simply looking probably isn’t your main purpose in life.<\/p>\n
Prognosticating can be fun, but it can be hollow too. Sometimes it just leaves me with a “But now what?” feeling. What’s really satisfying – always and without fail – is when I can see something that needs doing, and do it, and it’s done, and the world is a bit of a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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