I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
― Michael Jordan
Jordan Sets NBA Playoff Record
April 20, 1986 – The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan scores 63 points in an NBA playoff game against the Boston Celtics, setting a post-season scoring record that still stands. Despite Jordan’s achievement, the Bulls lost to the Celtics in double overtime, 135-131. Boston swept the three-game series and went on to win the NBA championship.
Ole’ Green Eyes
Salem loves his Sunday Mornings in Dallas. Just an iPad photo.
Stereophonics- “Maybe Tomorrow”
For your Sunday Morning listening pleasure…Stereophonics perform an acoustic version of their hit song “Maybe Tomorrow” on RTL2.
I look around at a beautiful life
Been the upper side of down
Been the inside of out
But we breathe
We breathe
I wanna breeze and an open mind
I wanna swim in the ocean
Wanna take my time for me
All me
Words
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.
– General Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur Gives Farewell Speech
April 19, 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur gave his “Old Soldiers” speech before the U.S. Congress.
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”
And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
Honored
I am so honored to have one of my favorite writers, Robert Brault, profile me on his blog. His words have been an inspiration to me for many years. “Every seven minutes, every day, someone in the Twitter world tweets a Robert Brault quote.” Check out his blog. Thanks, Robert!
The Rick Lewis Touch
Check out Robert’s book when you visit his blog!
Words
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America’s hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
– J. Michael Straczynski
Elysian Waters 