Today I think I learned that stirring rhetoric recorded from the Justices of the Supreme Court are much rarer than stirring rhetoric from actors, authors, politicians, and others.
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| Supreme Court at Daybreak |
I was looking for a caption to go along with this photo in a Facebook post, and I had a pretty hard time finding a quote from a Supreme Court Justice that seemed to fit the bill. Ultimately, I was successful, but the search took awhile. To a degree I find that heartening. To be a widely recognized public figure and to have the discipline to keep truly remarkable quotations to yourself in this day and age is quite a feat. I'm sure that they try in the interest of maintaining the court's long held reputation as a place non-partisan institution. Be that as it may, the discipline to pull off that sort of accomplishment is nothing short of remarkable.
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| Capitol Building in the Waning Dark |
Given a short notice tasker to "gist" about six pages of single spaced, font 10 text into six sentences, I discovered that the writing I've been practicing here on a fairly regular basis really is paying dividends that I did not anticipate. Jut on the mechanical side, my typing, which was already reasonable fast, has gotten quite a bit better. I can't quantify the improvement, but I know that speed has improved, and I'm less prone to mistakes. On the more creative front, I didn't really find it too difficult to digest the information and churn out an acceptable product in less than ten minutes. It was an assignment that I would have struggled with several months ago, but today the words seemed to flow through the fingers.
That development was another heartening event. Given the readership here (hint, there isn't any that I can discern), I sometimes find myself wondering if this effort is serving any purpose at all. Today, the benefit manifested itself in some unanticipated ways.
As is my custom, I'm looking forward to what the sea of tomorrow will bring in with the tide of dawn.
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