Because they are not sitting across the table from me every night (and because they left for college before I was done imparting my knowledge), here are the nightly bits of wisdom you received at the dinner table.

Love Dad

Monday, December 13, 2010

Last Push

The BEST KICK ASS poem ever.   

TODAY thank God for you unconquerable soul.  

Say this OUT LOUD - I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY FATE AND THE MASTER OF MY SOUL.

And have the ass the never, ever stays kicked. - "Bloody but unbowed".

Kick Ass this week - and enjoy doing it.   These times that try you are the very best of times  - there are a ton of people this week that will not get to display their character.  Enjoy every battle - there never seems to be enough of them.  In 4 short days it will be over.
 
I have included INVICTUS in its entirety.


Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever God may be,
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not cried nor winced aloud,
Under the bludgeoning of chance,
My head is bloody but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the captain of my fate,
I am the master of my soul.

William Earnest Henley, 1875

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