After an unusually cool spring and early summer, we have some heat at Redwing — not often the triple digits we see this time of year, but lots of bright, hot, mid-90s days.
He knew that there could be no meaning to someone who was dead. Meaning came out of living. Meaning could come only from his choices and actions. Meaning was made, not discovered ... The things he’d wanted before — power, prestige — now seemed empty, and their pursuit endless. What he did and thought in the present would give him the answer, so he did not look for answers in the past or future. Painful events would always be painful. The dead are dead, forever.
Karl Marlantes
Matterhorn (Chapter 23)
The rules of conduct, the maxims of actions, and the tactical instincts that serve to gain small victories may always be expanded into the winning of great ones with suitable opportunity; because in human affairs the sources of success are ever to be found in the fountains of quick resolve and swift stroke; and it seems to be a law inflexible and inexorable that he who will not risk cannot win.
—John Paul Jones
