The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.

Elbert Hubbard, Author of A Message to Garcia

. . .

Imagine a gong, grand and golden,

And a Gongster, by mallet, emboldened.

The gong is driven to perpetual bong.

Struck it is, each time man is wrong.

An eternal hum the gong sings,

As man’s mistakes are imperishable things.

From spilt milk to broken cups,

From missed flights to other mess ups.

Mistakes take man by the hand,

And with him walk, into sinking sand.

When you are sinking in the sands of regret,

And your mistakes are impossible to forget,

Recall the hum of the golden gong,

And know you are always, but a strike away, from being wrong.

. . .

Granville D. Austin