Poets Day US

“Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.” - Branch Rickey I think I may have pontificated about luck as a concept in a previous post but as I cannot actually remember everything I have written I guess I might be writing about this again, however this time will be much better, by design :)  I was reading an article about the first World Series American Rounders game this week between the Astros and the Dodgers when the quote "Luck is the residue of design" was used and I thought, yeah, that makes sense to me. I am not someone who believes so much in luck as in putting yourself in the right place at the right time, and this...

Someone told me to write what I know about - which to them I think meant I need to stop writing altogether :) This week I decided I will write a post about something that I am passionate about instead of knowledgable, so if you want to read a post about rugby continue on, if not you might want to stop here :) I believe it was a certain pointy eared Vulcan that first said "Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - to be honest I had no idea it was a Spock quote till I Binged it - but that is the logic behind this weeks word jumble. Yes it is about rugby,  more specifically youth rugby and what I believe needs to happen for the game to grow not just as a sport but as a personal development tool for youth in the US and other countries. 'But James', you say, 'rugby is all about big lugs with cauliflower ears and broken noses smashing into each other with nary a care for life nor limb'. Well, kind sir/madam, I have to d...