This social media thing is ever-evolving, and may never be as simple as it once seemed. We can worry about that or embrace the changes that come into our lives. Amor Fati.
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George Bailey : [George hears a train whistle] There she blows. You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?Uncle Billy : Uh huh. Breakfast is served; lunch is served; dinner…George Bailey : No no no no. Anchor chains, plane motors and train whistles.– Scene from It’s a Wonderful Life I’m eager…
There is no dusk to be,There is no dawn that was,Only there’s now, and now,And the wind in the grass. Days I remember ofNow in my heart, are now;Days that I dream will bloomWhite the peach bough. Dying shall never beNow in the windy grass;Now under shooken leavesDeath never was.– Archibald MacLeish, An Eternity I…
Taken away from us forty years ago today, John Lennon remains the most complex of Beatles. With this anniversary of his murder, he’s been dead for as many years as he was alive, which is a surreal indicator of how large his presence has been well after he’s been gone. I wonder what he might…
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpotts Rumors of Aurora Borealis potential had me looking up at the skies last night and tracking its progress across the globe with my trusty Aurora app. Overcast skies last night combined with being too far south made…
“In the eighteenth century, when educated European tourists visited the Alps, they deliberately blindfolded their eyes to shield themselves from the evidence of the earth’s horrid irregularity. It is hard to say if this was not merely affectation, for today, newborn infants, who have not yet been taught our ideas of beauty, repeatedly show in…
“The first ashrama is brahmacharya, the period of youth and young adulthood dedicated to learning. The second is grihastha, when a person builds a career, accumulates wealth, and maintains a family. This second stage seems fairly straightforward and uncontroversial, but in this stage the Hindu philosophers find one of life’s most common traps: People become…