To Begin
This site is dedicated to those who strive valiantly to succeed, but come up short. We all learn success is a struggle met seldom with reward. But our culture abhors failure and denigrates those that come up short. Often alone, powerless and spent, 'failures' are exiled to the margins of society; ridiculed and untrusted. They become 'Deadbeats' and this site attempts to create solidarity with the best of them.Teddy Roosevelt gave the best defense of seeming deadbeats in his speech: "Man in The Arena" which he delivered in The Sorbonne at Paris, April 23, 1910.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;