Friday Flyer

Today's sad fact:  "You aren't going to change someone's mind who believes it in their headbone."

Personality & Spirituality

~ Robert Brault

Wednesday Wildcard

"No one who has wandered the world alone has ever confused it with traveling."

Songs of Eretz Poetry

~~ Robert Brault

Monday Musings #9

You don't have to believe in an afterlife to believe that there are people gone from this earth you can still make proud of you.

Your Mom Has A Blog

I doubt that you still laugh or cry in the quiet of your grave, but I'm confident that you still worry as a parent.


On the one hand, don't take everything seriously.  On the other hand, don't expect anything to change until you do.


We don't always get the miracle we pray for, but we nearly always get the strength we pray for.


Happiness is always a risk, whereas the unhappiness in our lives tends to be familiar, tolerable and fully paid for.


To be ultimately wise is to know everything, none of it for sure.


As hard as two people may try, it is impossible to travel diverging paths by day and meet back in the same place every night.


To know history is to inherit the ultimate "To Do" list.

As any long-married couple can tell you, there are ways to demonstrate love so subtle that they are undetectable by a third party -- and often by the second party.

~~ Robert Brault

Friday Flyer

If you look like someone who's willing to listen, you hear a lot of explanations owed to other people.

Psychology Today

~ Robert Brault

Wednesday Wildcard

To hear someone say, "If I had my life to live over, I wouldn't do a single thing differently" must make even experience want to leave teaching.

~~ Robert Brault

Monday Musings #8

To condone a political injustice is merely to take your place in the line of eventual victims.

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There is a tendency for someone who stubbornly mistakes us for a better person to be proved right.


Nothing shakes your faith in democracy like the family's 3-2 vote for fudge sundaes for breakfast.


It is easier to battle ignorance than misinformation because, as a rule, ignorance is not refreshed hourly.


To conclude that a miracle is not going to happen, and that it's up to you, is the first requirement of a miracle.


While life can hit us with the unexpected, most things go wrong pretty much when we thought they would, for the reasons we thought they might.


We are lured into unhappiness by its reliability, the assurance that at the end of the day, it will be there.

In the end what makes us all equal is that we are all just passing through.

~~ Robert Brault

Friday Flyer

Too often the words, "I miss you" are the "I love you" you never thought to say.

DreamsTime

~ Robert Brault