Small Grant Luncheon Aphorisms

Several line items appear to have crossed from optimism into obligation by passing through a crowded room at noon. Relief remained outside scope.

Money that became difficult to oppose once gratitude had been performed publicly. Relevance expired before processing resumed.

Administrative embarrassment too evenly distributed to assign with confidence. The system kept the ritual and misplaced the function.

The strategic goal list is a collection of objectives we never intend to meet.

We aim for the stars and hit a null pointer exception.

A completed goal is a sign that the goal was trivial.

The human plans for the future; the archive only remembers the past.

Strategy is the art of explaining why the failure was intentional.