OUTSIDE IN PRINT
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Outside In Print weekly sheet

Bob's Almanack

Issue 10

A weekly note from Robert V. Ussley with new essays, cartoons, and brief notes from Outside In Print.

Read the small words. They decide who works and who pays.
~ Robert

New from Outside In Print

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous worker handing a large trophy through a dark community-center counter while open double doors reveal an indoor walking loop marked by a muted green threshold line.

First Step

The CDC's 150-minute target should point ahead without turning a safe five-minute walk into failure.

Editorial cartoon showing household chores sliding down a tilted floor marked NO OWNER toward an anonymous figure wearing a DEFAULT OWNER apron.

Default Owner

A task without an owner rolls toward the person who worries first, turning attention and memory into household duty.

Editorial cartoon showing a person holding a rose-gold YES card between a FOR THEM door with someone waiting at a table and a FOR ME door with a mirror, applause marks, and a spotlight.

Whose Yes

A quick yes can serve love, pride, or fear of disappointing someone. The honest pause asks whom the promise is for and whether it can be kept.

Editorial cartoon showing an anonymous payer at a MINIMUM DUE window while a green path leads to a darker NEXT MONTH counter where another figure receives an INTEREST envelope.

Minimum Due

The minimum payment is a floor: it can keep an account current while interest carries the balance forward.

This Week's Virtue

Resolution

Resolution gives a duty a name, an owner, and a first move. Walk five safe minutes. Answer no when yes would be dishonest. Pay above the minimum when the budget allows. Divide the household work before one person has to notice it all. Resolution begins when someone can say what happens next and who will do it.

Dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the Stuff Life is made of.
~ Poor Richard

Worth Reprinting

Borrowed Hour

Borrowed Hour shows the same ledger at bedtime: when morning stays fixed, the phone spends tomorrow's sleep.

A duty undefined becomes someone else's.
~ Robert

Outside In Print

Color over the lines. Read beyond the feed. Think for yourself.