Happy Sunday my Friends! Good Morning Digital Neighbors, Triggeratti, Refugees & PHAM! Hello again Early Birds, Dawn Patrol, Later Dayers, Fascinating People and Day Walkers! I hope you find a good place to hang your hat on Locals all of you Conversants, Lurkers and Scrollers. Don't worry I didn't forget your Bigots either. ?

Another Mary Engelbreit print and some more autumn photography provided by the fine search engine that is Duck Duck GO! Momma Peggy loved this print by ME, she was a bit obsessed with pigs and the old time vibe that Mrs. Engelbreit made her own. Bottom line, better to try something and fail at it that never to try it at all. The specter of "can't" prevents us from trying so much in life. There have been too many moments in my younger years where "can't prevent me from doing things things in life. I know it is not as simple as "just do it", I am more of a what do you have to lose if you try it? Have you prepared for it? Have you done your research? Have you try to honestly assess the pro's & con's?

Once all the prep work is complete, roll the dice and hope for the best. Failure is only final when we accept it. No doubt, repeated failure sucks and a string of failures can push even the strongest into dark places. Any failure we recover from probably teaches more about ourselves than most of our successes. Sr. Zoe used to say often that failure is a better measure of character than success, who doesn't find success easy? Who doesn't enjoy success? Handling failure shows you what a person is made of. I liked Sr. Zoe. Again, no on wants or can endure a steady diet of failure, but giving up too early has probably cheated us more than we may ever realize. Thomas Edison is one of my inspirations for relentlessly for the pursuit of one's desires and dreams.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas A. Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison

Well enough rambling, I have to get ready for Mass, a few baptisms and the Gamers are coming over from some table top fun. I have started a parent and child RPG group. Two Dads and their children are venturing into the dorkery of D & D type game. One dad is a seasoned gamer that I have gamed with for the last 15 years, all the rest are noobs. Happy Sunday friends, mine looks to be great one if things go well, and even if they don't it is not going to stop me from enjoying it as much as I can. On to Mother Mary Engelbreit and Mother Nature.