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Low Two Pair by Ken Kaus

Hey, stop, what’s that sound?

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Question of the Day: • If you could hear one sound from 1,000 years ago, what would you choose?

Thought of the Day:

“The art of competing, I’d learn from the track, was the art of forgetting … You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.” Phil Knight

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Good Morning Reader,

There are some things from our past worth carrying forward.

And others we may need to forget.

Today’s Thought takes a look at Phil Knight’s idea that sometimes moving forward requires us to forget our limits, doubts, pain, and past.

​Read The Art of Forgetting​

Then, I have a different kind of trip into the past.

If you could hear one sound from 1,000 years ago, what would you choose?

I think I’d want to hear an ancient ceremony. Something at Stonehenge or another place we can still see but can never completely understand. We know the people were there. I’d like to hear them.

​Answer A Sound From 1,000 Years Ago​

Stay Golden,
Ken

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