What Winston Churchill said...

We all learn little tricks to keep our feet on the path, and our toes pointed straight ahead to the goal we're headed for. Seems no job needs those helps more than a writer working from his or her home office. It gets lonely sitting there, facing the page. Some days, the writing goes well; some days, not so well. Some days, finding markets goes well, some days, it doesn't go at all.

I rifled through my happy quotes today for a little inspiration. Here's one I like, compliments of Winston Churchill: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." He packed a lot of good stuff in those words, don't you think?

When he uttered those words, he was probably thinking of the B-I-G picture---winning the war for England and the rest of the world. Like the lyrics in the love songs that you know were written just for you, this quote seems to have been written for me.

The words tell me not just to have the courage to keep a-going'; they're telling me that when I do get there not to get too high-and-mighty, 'cuz it ain't gonna last forever. It's a humbling thought, one I'll be sure to remember.