If you are reading this it a miracle because no one ever reads what I have written. It is raining, close our eyes and envision the World. Day by day, hour by hour minute by minute venture back through life and capture as many as possible of the moments that you have skipped over up until now. Use those every day memories of life as anchors and fill in the minutes and seconds between them with colors and sounds of a life that stretches six decades from an off-white hospital room at birth to the desert rain and thunder of this moment. Feel the sun, the touch of a hand, the water on your face for the first time, the thrill of self-propulsion, the heart break of love lost, and the heart beat of love won. The dying of each Autumn and the birth of each Spring. The heat of each Summer and the unrelenting cold of each Winter. Then hold in your minds eye the Heavens above filled with uncountable stars beyond stars stretched against a blackness so deep and wide your eyes strain to open enough to take it all in and can not. Then slowly open your eyes to the World here and now....and tell me who will you believe? Google or your Heart?
Advice to the young...and old.
Kosciuszko's Advice to a Youth To do honor to your family and yourself and at my recommendation, you must reread what follows every day so that it will be engraved on your memory on which your well being will depend. Rise at four in the summer and six in the winter. Your first thoughts must be directed towards the Supreme Being; worship Him for a few minutes. Set yourself to work with reflection and intelligence, either at your prescribed duty carried out in the most scrupulous manner, or perfect yourself in some science in which you should have true mastery. Avoid lying under any circumstances in your life, but always be frank and loyal and always tell the truth. Never be idle but be sober and frugal even hard on yourself while indulgent to others. Do not be vain nor an egotist (1763 https://www.etymonline.com/word/egoist). Before speaking or answering on something, reflect and consider well in order not to lose your point and say something stupid. Never fail to give due recogniti...
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