“No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy”…the disaster of mythic proportion known as Elizabethtown.

“If at first you don’t succeed”… insert your reference here.  I choose Miracle on 34th Street because it’s preceded by “faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to”

“Don’t settle for mediocrity”…title of valedictory address to the Willam A. Wirt High School Class of 1968.

As I returned from my 4th of July trip to Vegas, down an uncustomary few hundred bucks, I reflected on the wisdom of another turn of the past century giant which appears in an altered state as the the title of this entry.  These  various quotes jumped across my synapses over and over like the song you can’t get out of your head.  Then, as I exited the plane, the broken record vanished at the sight of an, apparently, adult man with a ventriloquist’s Yoda on his knee. (Really!)  This resurrected the early Star Wars Yodaism, “There is no try, only do”.

I have an always mind-full, set of tasks to accomplish, each requiring considerable energy to rise above simple existence and achieve.  When success requires further experimentation and my mind envisions gargantuan myths of failure,  the energy necessary to continue, grows exponentially.  At times like these, I reach for my trusty book of quotes. I have collected this wisdom over the past 20+ years.  There I find the deep and comforting words of a Bumper Sitcker which read:

“What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it’s ALL about?”