Cartoon – Last Words
Author: Antarctica Journal
Poem – Insignificance (By Robert Ronnow)
Insignificance Late in life I struggle against my insignificance When I should enjoy the freedom from performance before an audience. Applause is happiness but if they withhold applause, embarrassment. When Da Liu put me to work crunching hexagrams and spreadsheet numerology Instead of ghost writing his books about T’ai Chi for longevity I was humiliated but freed. No need to […]
Read moreWayne W. Dyer Quote – All Blame Is A Waste Of Time
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another […]
Read moreRisky Professions
One in six roofers suffers an injury each year. The least risky profession: Legal services.
Read moreEugene Peterson Quote on Becoming Whole
“We must fight the forces that oppose our becoming whole; we must find our way through difficult and unfamiliar territory to our true home.” ~ Eugene Peterson
Read moreTrapped In Our Own Heads
Does ‘Planet Nine’ Exist?
Scientists say there may be a ninth planet out past Pluto at 8 billion miles from the sun. Since its not within the gravitational pull of three of the big planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune it may go out as far as 200 billion miles away from the sun in the future. This giant planet may be 10 times […]
Read moreClare Boothe Luce Quote – There Are No Hopeless Situations
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.” – Clare Boothe Luce
Read moreCartoon – Teacher’s Pet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote – Judgement
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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