“Keep Your Thoughts to Yourself”

Thus said my horoscope the other day.  Her Ladyship read it out boldly to me, and we had a good laugh, because, in all honestly, that’s not something I do well.  Often over the years, I’d be sitting in a meeting where that little voice in my head would say, “keep quiet”.  Sometimes I could, but sometimes, not so much. I come from a long line of “Did I say that out loud?” Irish folks.  Discretion and restraint aren’t really our strongest attributes.  When Abraham Lincoln said, “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.”, he may well have had a number of my ancestors in mind.  

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