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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Life of a Balloon, Update 5

What are you looking at?

Well, here we are in week 14! My birthday ballon has wandered off to the far corner of the room, no doubt in search of solitude, or perhaps seeking a better view out the window. I am thinking we are approaching world record balloon age here. Perhaps the stuff of legend in the world of helium filled balloons, or maybe the sign of our impending doom. The first of a new generation of helium balloons that will rise up and take over the world. Maybe he is just floating around waiting for the Red Sox to actually beat someone?

Tonight should be a great night. The Boston Red Sox can't lose, they've been rained out.

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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Life of a Balloon, Update 5

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