A Blogger’s Guiding Light
Starting a blog, if You were to choose one Article or Anecdote, to act as your Guiding Light, throughout your blogging career; which Article or Anecdote would you choose?
Lincoln in 1860, from a first-state proof of an engraving of the Cooper Institute picture of Lincoln.
Here is my Guiding Light….it is an Anecdote from Abe Lincoln’s life during his tenure as the 16th President of the United States :
General Henry Halleck’s letter to an army commander was full of formal and military technical terms, and contained a warning couched in, this fashion :
“In undertaking to place your command on the opposite shore of the Rappahannock River, you will exercise extreme caution in affording full protection to advance, rear and flanks, in order that the enemy may not be encouraged to make an attack while your forces are separated in the act of crossing.”
This was good advice. Lincoln gave it to the same commander in a note which he wrote him; but this was the form in which he expressed it :
“Look out, when you cross the river, that you don’t hang yourself up in the middle like a steer on a fence, able neither to hook with your horns nor kick with your feet.”
Do you have an incident or anecdote, as your Guiding Light? Go ahead, share it here.