Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with scattered showers and a high of 69. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset is 8:35 for 15 hours 20 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1858, Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
It is the nature of a productive, free-market society like ours — America’s — that continued prosperity requires dynamism. We are not a sluggish people. We are an energetic people. Sometimes our dynamism requires great effort; other times it requires only that we consider the opportunities before us.
A confident, composed person considers these opportunities as they arise. Through reasoning, knowledge, and principle he engages in discussions of all sorts. He enters conversations believing himself to be right yet open to being proved wrong. This is the confidence of a well-individuated man. This is the confidence of our dynamic, productive society.
Although opportunity could visit many places — and will remain only where welcome — sometimes she arrives in one’s own town.
One morning, opportunity sends an invitation to a meeting. The offer is one of conversation, of discussion, of a proposal. She awaits a reply.
Accept her invitation, take the meeting, join her at the table.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, Outcome-Driven Argumentation, and a New Ethics Ordinance.
Brilliant fireball streaks across the skies of several U.S. states: