Inspiration on the Sabbath, Memorial Day eve: 27 May, 2018
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Mimicry is well known as the most sincere form of flattery.
I wouldn't fault your comment LM #2, except for your word -attempt * -. I'd have hoped I'd succeeded.
If ZZ has posted such similar topic for today's date and I overlooked it, please pardon me.
If he has, I didn't know.
Instead, I deduced ZZ had taken the day off, and that to the limited extent of my meager abilities would try to fill in, until the master resumes.
"Greatly admire" may be gilding the lily. But I do appreciate ZZ's frequent parallel topic contributions, and have stated so publicly on at least one occasion. Quite often, the only additions to his constructive contributions are under my pseud.
BUT !!
This isn't really about me, or ZZ.
In the U.S., a font of warriors in a nation born in war, we honor our heritage on Memorial Day by acknowledging the titanic sacrifice so many have made, so that we may continue to breathe free.
I'd hoped in my quoting Plato, a name synonymous with classical philosophy (I read his book) that we might ease in on this Memorial Day eve, to the paradoxical principle of self-sacrifice.
Best wishes to one & all this Memorial Day. & my continuing thanks to ZZ for inspiring us all.
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." U.S. Secretary Colin Powell
* If I have misconstrued please correct me.
I wouldn't fault your comment LM #2, except for your word -attempt * -. I'd have hoped I'd succeeded.
If ZZ has posted such similar topic for today's date and I overlooked it, please pardon me.
If he has, I didn't know.
Instead, I deduced ZZ had taken the day off, and that to the limited extent of my meager abilities would try to fill in, until the master resumes.
"Greatly admire" may be gilding the lily. But I do appreciate ZZ's frequent parallel topic contributions, and have stated so publicly on at least one occasion. Quite often, the only additions to his constructive contributions are under my pseud.
BUT !!
This isn't really about me, or ZZ.
In the U.S., a font of warriors in a nation born in war, we honor our heritage on Memorial Day by acknowledging the titanic sacrifice so many have made, so that we may continue to breathe free.
I'd hoped in my quoting Plato, a name synonymous with classical philosophy (I read his book) that we might ease in on this Memorial Day eve, to the paradoxical principle of self-sacrifice.
Best wishes to one & all this Memorial Day. & my continuing thanks to ZZ for inspiring us all.
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." U.S. Secretary Colin Powell
* If I have misconstrued please correct me.
