Over the last year, only one person has indicated to me that they would rather I not quote them or cite them in any of my blogs or comments.  Amazing that so many people have no self respect!!!

Yet there is one person I have quoted regularly, usually for comic relief who has never objected.

I have stated this before, but out of all the hundreds of  wonderful lines ever written on this TPMCafe Site, the one I most treasure was the one by my friend Q:

Cannot we all just take five minutes and wish the other person well.

There is so much power in this statement which at the time, I simply took as a moment of truth. I read it originally as being written out of  anger over someone else's comment. Q appeared to be unsettled over what someone else said. Nevertheless there was such a sweetness to it. Such a plea. Opened armed. Seeking no response really. It hit me hard and it was not addressed to me. So this became my Dayly Line of the Day Award for the entire year.  I will say it again for effect:

Cannot we all just take five minutes and wish the other person well.

Maybe it's the beginning of a new month. Maybe because it will be the end of my first year on the internet in a decade.But I feel a need to speak of good things. About being reborn and feeling I might have a productive time as I reach the magic age of 60.

I was so struck by the fact that Ramona, one of my favorite writers here, was QUOTED by one of my all time heroes, Bill Moyers. We have had two full blown blogs on this event by OGD and Rowan. And the response was incredible. Or I should say credible.

I was attempting to underline in my comments to both blogs that TPMCafe was being honored and I think--hell I know that Ramona would agree. Ramona represents the best of the best to me. I am crazy about her avatar. That woman with all those unnecessary clothes on as she addresses her Underwood Typewriter.

I thought that this post would incorporate my awe over the posts of Ramona and what it means for our club, but it also includes the great line by Q which I shall never forget.

ME EXCEPTED, I am asking our friends at Café, to wish someone else well.  You are forbidden at this point to discuss me. I am asking that the readers of this blog wish someone at TPMCafe well.  Someone that you truly enjoy reading. It is done all the time here.

I was going to include all my friends. And cite them one at a time but I ended up on the fifth page. And I was not half way through my thoughts. Ha

So now, I take the time to wish Josh Marshall well and thank him for what he has done for me. Providing a place where ANYONE can write what they wish, what they feel, what they are thinking.

I ask that all take five minutes to wish someone else well.