I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~ Michael Jordan

For the Open Thread this evening I thought I might share a few articles I've read in the last day or two. Allow me to provide a h/t to all that shared these and say a big ole thanks for doing all you do and making sure the rest of us are still paying attention. And just so you know, 50 days from today we'll be able to discuss this "stuff" everywhere. I want to start with a specific link just so I can crib Tom Englehardt, "And what of our dreams? Our hopes? Charred at the edges perhaps, but unlike theirs, alive and well, as that surprise of last year the Occupy movement showed."

Rebecca Solnit, Success Is for the Stubborn

The less tangible spirit of Occupy and the new associations it sparked are what matters for whatever comes next, for that 10-year-plan. Occupy was first of all a great meeting ground. People who live too much in the virtual world with its talent for segregation and isolation suddenly met each other face-to-face in public space. There, they found common ground in a passion for economic justice and real democracy and a recognition of the widespread suffering capitalism has created.

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