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“Do or Do not, There is No Try”
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.Leonardo da Vinci
Likewise says St. James, “Be doers of the Word and not just hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22).
On this note I am setting another outrageous writing goal for my own self: 40,000 words on my current project due June 21. Over a month to finish my barely-begun, second unpublished, not-very-good novel.
I’m going to try to find a widget of some sort to place in the sidebar here to track my progress. All this to keep me accountable.
Wish me luck!
For bonus points, identify the speaker of the quote in the title…
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Kidding, you are. A dime a dozen, your bonus points are.
At least give me an IntenseDebate point for Yoda, in Empire Strikes Back, talking to Luke Skywalker on Dagobah.
You're giving extra points for that? Come on, that's like asking who is Luke Skywalker's father.
Incidentally, my wife took a 'Which Star Wars character are you?' quiz on Facebook. I guessed she was a Sith Lord, but, no: Yoda.
For real extra points, who was the following said TO: "I find your lack of faith disturbing.” I figured this would be a more pertinent quote on the blog of a Lutheran pastor.
Darth Vader. Didn't even have to Google. OK, it was too easy. I admit. You get bonus points too.
No, no, that's the person who said it. Who did he say it TO?
Arg. It wasn't Grand Moff Whatshisname, played by Peter Cushing…
I looked it up. I get a bonus for googling skills, don't I? Admiral Motti played by Richard LeParmentier
Good, Paduan. Good.
I met the non-Orthodox mother of a convert friend of mine. We were chatting and I off-handedly asked whether the long slender braid of hair she had was her Paduan learner braid. She said, yes. That was an uncomfortable about face trying to come up with something to say other than 'are you sh—ing me?' She also had a tatoo of some long saying of Yoda's. Takes all kinds.
Of course, almost all of the music accompanying the various events at our wedding reception was from the Star Wars soundtrack. The music from the cantina in Episode IV accompanies our cake cutting. Some other big intro piece is what the wedding party was introduced to. Neither our first dance or the dances with mother and father were from Star Wars, and we boogied to no Star Wars music thereafter. Only the 'special' events.
We also had a reading from 'The Princess Bride' during the toasts. 'Mawiage is what bwing us togewer today…'
Wow. I feel kind of like you did when you found the Padawan learner. The Cantina music? Really?
My wedding reception, on the other hand, was held at the Lake County Museum and Forest Reserve outside of Chicago. At the museum was a Star Wars Exhibition. One of the guests kept stealing the Princess Leia Figure on display and taking it to the dance floor…. But we had no Star Wars music…:)