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:: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 ::

solutions

God, I offer myself to Thee to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do Thy Will. Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life. May I do Thy Will always.

Oh, that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would always be with me, and that You would keep me from evil.

Thank You for keeping me sober today. Amen.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. -- André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things—combinations that may yield new forms of expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It’s exactly what children’s play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children’s play is so important a part of childhood—and beyond. -- Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers Talks with Parents

How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers. -- Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind

Today is better. Still no real feeling, but better. I made some progress on the revised Unit Cost Reports due next week. Keisha found a solution to one of our Daily Sales Report obstacles. I picked up my laundry after work and then went to the remainder of the Living Sober with HIV meeting and emptied the safe. I fought the traffic on Central to go up to the computer lab and complete my statistics homework. This class is getting much more complex more quickly.

Sent Allen another email last night since I'm not sure if he received mine from Monday night due to server error. If he doesn't respond, I'll just let it go. I returned Charlie and Tom's calls yesterday. Need to get in touch with Marcus and Omar. I told the people at Bryan's House and Preservation Dallas that I need to take a break from volunteering. Need to call Don about the jail team today.

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