RESPONSIBILITY

Stay bigger than your responsibilities

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One of our more travelled girls took the above shot while traveling through Virginia. I must apol- ogize for not marking her name or number on the back of the picture so that I could give credit but at the time it came in I just took it as a rather amusing sign and tucked it away with other photographs not intending at the time to make any use of it. Yet the more I thought about it the more timely the subject seemed to be.

That is quite an order that slogan, "Stay Bigger Than Your Responsibilities, (Life of)Virginia". In my case I take that to mean two things: Keep on top of your job, keep things rolling and look ahead, and secondly, remain big enough emotionally not to let petty gripes and criticisms get you down. This latter is related to that other famous slogan "Lllegitimus Non Carborundum" which, freely translated, means, Dont Let the Bastards Grind You Down. Frankly I am glad my unremembered friend sent that picture to me as I am going to try to make it a New Years Resolu- tion to do just these things. But it wont be easy. Not that I cant take true and fair criticism, but I'm

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