"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

Lena Horne

On this day in 1966: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

Article: The Difference Between Amateurs & Professionals: “Amateurs attribute success to skill and failure to luck. Professionals recognize the role of skill and luck in every outcome. They focus on the controllable factors. They create an environment where luck is more likely to strike.”

Fact: Blood donors in Sweden are sent a text message every time their blood is used to save a life.

Monday's Best Pics: I like the one of the Bavarian women in fur clothing drinking schnapps in a wooden carriage.

Movie Review: "The Banshees of Inisherin" (click for trailer) written and directed by Martin McDonagh, who took the theatre world by storm in 1996 when at 27 he was the youngest person since Shakespeare to have four plays running simultaneously in London, an unlikely event for a guy who'd previously been employed as a grocery bagger. See this funny, touching and disturbing film which confronts the circumstantial nature of friendship and its limits, depression, rage, grudges and in a weird way...self care. 15 glasses of Taderade for a masterpiece.

“I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. I hope the overall view isn't just that though, or I've failed in my writing. There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies.” ― Martin McDonagh