Post #3171

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
—Amelia Earhart

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Post #3170

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
—Aesop

Post #3169

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
—Will Rogers

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Post #3168

Learning never exhausts the mind.
—Leonardo da Vinci

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Post #3167

These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt, and hesitation.
—The Talmud

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Post #3166

We work to become, not to acquire.
—Elbert Hubbard

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Post #3165

Believe one who has tried it.
—Virgil

Post #3164

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
—S. Leonard Rubinstein

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Post #3163

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
—H.W. Shaw

Post #3162

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
—John F. Kennedy

Remembering Robert Douglas "Doug" Badger of Long Beach, California

March 30, 1951 - January 16, 2023

Doug Badger, devoted dad, husband, friend, mentor, shipmate, and sharer of knowledge, "crossed the bar" on January 16, 2023. I was on the phone speaking with a vendor out in California yesterday. I brought up Doug in the conversation. The vendor said "I guess you haven't heard". Right then my heart sank and I wept.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

—Tryon Edwards

I guess it was around 1996 when I first contacted Doug. We traded a few old sea stories and it was like I'd known him all my life. I'm sure a lot of other people got the same impression. Over the next 25 years or so I'd ring up Doug on occasion to see if he could help me with some material, or just to shoot the breeze with him. But every single time, without fail,  I'd end up picking his brain. Because he knew his business. And that is a fact. I made a trip out to see Doug once. I'm glad I got to meet him, thank him, and shake his hand.

The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.
—The Talmud

Today my thoughts are with Doug's family. Celebrate his life. The last time I spoke with Doug he was happy and well, and loving life and family. That's how I knew Doug, and that's how I will always remember him.

Character gives splendor to youth and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rest In Peace, Doug.

Dave

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Post #3161

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
—Pericles