December 31

Puncture
Freedom requires the right to be mistaken.

Patch
Live with, and keep looking for, wrongness in all its strange and evasive omnipresence

December 30

Puncture
Crave something, acquire it, regret it.

Patch
We are more than we know ourselves to be - so, exceed your boundaries

December 29

Puncture
Move away from decree and toward inquiry.

Patch
We are more inclined to listen if we have doubt

December 28

Puncture
Hold convictions, but jettison the barricade of certainty.

Patch
We are quasi-rational thinkers burdened with ego, hope, stubbornness, loathing and loyalty

December 27

Puncture
Part of elder wisdom is knowing we don't know it all, that we will screw up, misjudge, and over/under estimate again (and again).

Patch
There is no desire to return to servile conformism once it is abandoned, since a requisite for being a servile conformist is that we do not know ourselves to be one

December 26

Puncture
Our commitment to an idea is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of it.

Patch
We are absolutely right about something right up to the moment we change our minds and are absolutely right about something new and different

December 25

Puncture
There is no Santa Claus

Patch
...and no heaven nor answer to prayer, either. Sorry