Given recent events, I am going to work on that.

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What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone;
For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

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Don’t be so easy on yourself (don’t be so easy on yourself)
Don’t be so easy on yourself (don’t be so easy on yourself)
Rearrange the voices in your head
Remember what they said
Don’t be so easy on yourself

Drive-By Truckers (Isbell), Easy On Yourself

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H/T Eric Amble for the title.

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If you have friends in Gloryland
Who left because of pain
Thank God up there, they’ll die no more
They’ll suffer not again
Then weep not friends
I’m going home

Gloryland, Ralph Stanley, and The Clinch Mountain Boys

Trial lawyers become experts in the circumstances just before and after the end of life. Some deaths come with early warning, and others come suddenly. They all leave behind a trail of evidence: weights and measurements duly noted by the medical examiner’s office; microscopic slides of tissue magnified by pathologists; vials of blood sent for testing; black boxes containing recorded information and conversations; skid marks, yaw marks, and highway debris.

Photos, letters, marriage licenses, news stories, diplomas, awards, service medals … the accumulated physical evidence of lives well-lived.

Families. Loved ones. Children.

For wrongful death, put these lives and this evidence in the hands of someone you can trust.

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And as my mind unweaves, I feel the freeze down on my knees.

Chest Fever was Garth Hudson’s moment to shine in The Band’s live performances. He was allowed to stretch out on the organ, often introducing the song with a proggy solo they called “The Genetic Method”.

Peter Viney called the lyrics “dummy words”, maybe thinking of the nonsense poetry used by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky.

I gave an opening argument once in the throes of an illness that left me dizzy. I’d tried to make myself look well by going into a tanning booth for the first time in my life. I can’t remember if I looked right as I stood, but I do remember sweat pouring off me as I struggled to make it through my presentation.

The responsibility of caring for clients is a privilege and burden. You don’t put down the weight just because you have a cold.

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And we’ll keep on digging ’til the coming of the Lord Gabriel’s trumpet sounds

‘Cause if you ain’t mining for the company, boy

There ain’t much in this town

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Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.

Virgil

Like all else, misfortunes are temporary but not fleeting. They are often not necessary or destined. Many are preventable. Those that could have been prevented are often caused by negligence. Rather than submit passively to them like a victim, fight them boldly. There’s a reason we call it a trial.

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