Michael Cogdill

Journalist, Fiction Writer, Blogger, Speaker, Entertainment Entrepreneur. Thoughts are mine. Retweets not endorsement.

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To Kill a Mockingbird debuted in 1960 — in the heat of the civil rights movement.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

And in some schools it was banned because of “language” and allegations of rape.

It takes no genius to understand the true fo…https://t.co/XCMhezS1Ro

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To Kill a Mockingbird debuted in 1960 — in the heat of the civil rights movement.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

And in some schools it was banned because of “language” and allegations of rape.

It takes no genius to understand the true fo…https://t.co/YO7TvrnMTv

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I would expound on this meme as follows.

I believe it’s many people. I hope and pray it’s not most.

None of us is called to play target practice with jealousy or envy or the projected inner suffering of others. Don’t stand as target in the terrain…https://t.co/n4UxiGZPV5

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“I have sworn upon the altar of Gid eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address

May we all become eternal foes of tyranny, beginning with states of mind which shackle men and women to…https://t.co/9zg1TiWatO

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That’s the great Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939.

The day the Iron Horse melted down in front of a sold out Yankee Stadium. The day Gehrig stood taller and stronger than ever.

The mighty gifts behind the baseball magic were dimming. ALS, to become known a…https://t.co/iK9aOSuYs9

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“Among the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed union, none deserves to be more accurately developed, than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.”

Alexander Hamilton very wisely reasoned that into the Federalist Papers.…https://t.co/t7GHj8DjTA

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People ask me, do you miss it?

They mean being on the air, anchoring and reporting the news.

Here’s the answer, abridged I am sure.

I miss the people. My co-anchor, Carol, had worked shoulder to shoulder on live television, for three decades, wh…https://t.co/MwzIEv4JJl

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The opposite of schadenfreude isn’t the absence of it.

The opposite of schadenfreude is celebration.

Celebrate and congratulate and be happy for others in their accomplishments.

Responsibility is something to take. Credit is for the giving.

L…https://t.co/CNML6mVMtD

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I grew up in a small town that had a walking man.

A businessman.

Joe, his name.

Joe walked his bib overalls out of a two lane blacktop hollow. About every day, into town and back again. Many miles a day. A seller of GRIT newspapers and Cloveri…https://t.co/UMKVlcGkVY

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There’s a reason thoughtfulness is a nobility.

Those whose minds can reach beyond themselves do things that matter. They make differences.

They make people better.

They tear no one down. https://t.co/u6JgNnSlXL

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Nonpareil!! Simply without equal. My love. Us.

I post this here because Danette Cogdill makes a better man, a better entrepreneur, a better writer of me. Those who do such are rare. So very.

Nonpareil. Our definition!

#love #writer
#managem…https://t.co/eaPGY18hUK

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Nonpareil!! Simply without equal. My love. Us.

I post this here because Danette Cogdill makes a better man, a better entrepreneur, a better writer of me. Those who do such are rare. So very.

Nonpareil. Our definition! https://t.co/PcHto82eaW

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My wife Danette Cogdill is so sweet to me I can scarcely know how to deserve her. On our honeymoon, she just loved out loud two passages from She Rain.

When a man entertains his wonderful wife with something he has written, he…https://t.co/vuDMaYeVZJ https://t.co/6dWvIzFyxc

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Mandates are not inspiration.

Dare care for your people. https://t.co/rHXJFBvkr6

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From honeymoon to eternity, I will love my wife!

And on this day of my parents’ wedding anniversary, here’s a little blog blast from 3 years ago. It comes with meanings running far deeper now!

Writing is the content of busi…https://t.co/8BxULf1kzx https://t.co/Rp0yuuS6zg

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Real accomplishment is quiet.

Snobbery signifies insecurity.

True honors get earned, not given.

Money spends best on education, not false sophistication.

So many ironies.

What others spring to mind? https://t.co/mRgM4buJ4V

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Thank you everyone for such kind wishes on my birthday.

It was the finest birthday weekend of my life.

Introducing Mrs. Danette Cogdill. Absolute love of my life. My heart overflows.

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human…https://t.co/K0IzW7UnB0

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If merit were fully determinative of outcome, my father would have been a great lawyer, a litigator, likely eventually in the Congress.

The place and season and echelon of his birth and upbringing prevented this. I saw and felt in him a deep-running l…https://t.co/C4ABf3GE7f

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In every accomplished life, there is a tempest. An inner restlessness to matter. A drive toward heroism.

There is also fortitude—against failure, criticism, envy, the schadenfreude of others.

Fitzgerald said, “Show me a hero and I’ll write you a t…https://t.co/iHK1MtlsAe

[Michael Cogdill @MichaelCogdill]

In every accomplished life, there is a tempest. An inner restlessness to matter. A drive toward heroism.

There is also fortitude—against failure, criticism, envy, the schadenfreude of others.

Fitzgerald said, “Show me a hero and I’ll write you a t…https://t.co/hYAqmJtDnR