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Creede, recently I read a biography on young Teddy Roosevelt, Mornings on Horseback. As a young politician cutting his teeth in that most forgiving of cities, (sarcasm) New York, he learned to push his progressive platform and ignore the human sharks that offered no solutions, only criticism. From this atmosphere was born his quote that many love so dearly:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Keep being you and being the doer of deeds. Ignore those who point out how you could do things better. Perhaps a big stick would also be helpful.

Airdale