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• Remembering the Glory Days (via dashPunk)
• Shine Like Thunder

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• Theater or Renter: November 2009 (via dashPunk)
• DVD Releases: November 3, 2009 (via dashPunk)
• Netflix

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• Musicians, the Dollhouse fandom needs you! (via Whedonesque)
• Audible

The Best, The Worst, and The Odd

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  • After its December run, Dollhouse set to return January 8th for 2010 episodes. (via Whedonesque)
  • Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin in Thor (via /Film)
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  • Filk comment on Horsetamer’s Daughter on Speculative Fiction Today #428 “Return Of The dashPunk” (thanks sffilk) (via dashPunk)
• On This Day
  • 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.  (wikipedia)

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I find myself thinking about the “Good Old Days” a lot lately.  This is not just a condition of thirty-somethings like me.  A surprising number of twenty-somethings I know are doing it to

Telling War Stories

There is some value in sitting around with your friends telling stories about our pasts.  It is how we come to know each other.

With increasing frequency, I have noticed that stories are not shared as memories, but as a wish for a return to our glory days.

Times Arrow

We are propelled forever into the future, writing ever more moments of our lives into the past.  Everything changes.  What is important is that we do not allow ourselves to become mired in the past.  We can learn from our past, but there is no known power in the cosmos that will allow us to return to a time already lived.

When a chapter closes, we have to turn the page and write the best words we can on the page.

The Best is yet to come

Believe me.  Several times, I have thought my best days were behind me.  The though enters all of our minds from time to time.  The fact is, it is easier to look back than it is to look forward.  We know the past.

Might I suggest we learn how to know the future.

• Plans help
• Goals motivate
• Hope enlivens

We have to find a way to have all three.  That is why I am thankful to Gene Roddenberry.  Star Trek gave me a vision of the future that is hard to strip away from my eyes.  The world I want to live in doesn’t exist yet.  I have too much work to do to waste time looking back.

How do you keep yourself looking forward?

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