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Another Lesson from Diana Nyad

One is you should never never give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team.

Those were the three messages 64-year-old Diana Nyad said to the crowd after finishing the historic swim from Cuba to Key West. They make a nice counterpoint to her message after an unsuccessful attempt last year.

Instead of staying on the couch for a lifetime, and letting this precious time go by, why not be bold? Be fiercely bold and go out and chase your dreams.
Please, nobody ask me how old I am

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Juxtaposition

Usually, I find juxtapositions in the same stream. Yesterday, I found these ideas separated by source, too.

First, on Twitter, I saw this—

A couple of hours later, I found these words on Tumblr in a tribute to Seamus Heaney by Dan Chiasson—

Heaney’s poems were full of finds, unlikely retrievals from the slime of the ground or the murk of history and memory. His poems about peat bogs and what they preserve are probably the most important English-language poems written in the past fifty years about violence—the ‘intimate, tribal revenge’ that underscores the news.

Reminds me that I've got to capture a stream of Tweets by Brian Phillips in tribute to Heaney.