Learned something new today.......

Twist ties have meaning.  Who knew?   Back story here

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For the most part, yes..................

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Fifty years ago......................

Paul Revere and The Raiders.....................................Happening '68

 

Recipe............................

After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep, so she habitually spent the hours from midnight to 3:00 A.M. in reading popular science.  I do not believe that she ever had time to notice that she was growing old.  This, I think, is the proper recipe for remaining young.  If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective, you will have not reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have already lived, still less of the possible brevity of your future.

Bertrand Russell, discussing his maternal grandmother in his essay, How To Grow Old.  Published here

Seeds...............................

     All the eventful year of 1793, which witnessed the execution of Louis XVI and the outbreak of the war between France and England, the decline of Danton and the rise of Robespierre, was passed quietly by Talleyrand in London.  It was probably during this year that he wrote the treatise on the Duke of Orleans which forms part of his published memoirs.  He offers no defence for, and indeed strongly condemns, the character and conduct of Philippe Egalite, but acquits him of any responsibility for the outbreak or the course of the Revolution.  "If historians strive to attribute the blame of having caused, or directed, or modified the French Revolution, they will be wasting their time.  It had no authors, nor leaders, nor guides.  The seed was sown by writers who, in a bold and enlightened age, wishing to attack prejudice, overthrew the principles of religion and of social life, and by incompetent Ministers, who increased the embarrassment of the treasury and the discontent of the people."  Whether Talleyrand wrote these words in 1793 or at a later date they can be taken as giving his considered opinion, the soundness of which few historians will be inclined to dispute.

-Duff Copper, Talleyrand

Bring forth.............................

     A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild:  but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.  If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

-James Allen,  As A Man Thinketh

Fifty years ago........................

The Beach Boys............................................................Darlin'

Fifty years ago.............................

The Marvelettes............................My Baby Must Be A Magician

 

Fifty years ago.............................

Canned Heat................................................On The Road Again

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Leapy Lee..................................................................Little Arrows

 

Brushing up on my.........................

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A readiness..........................

     A readiness to adapt oneself to the facts of the real world is often praised as a virtue, and in part it is.  It is a bad thing to close one's eyes to facts or fail to admit them because they are not welcome.  But it is also a bad thing to assume that whatever is in the ascendant must be right, that regard for fact demands subservience to evil.  Even worse than conscious subservience to evil is the self-deception which denies that it is evil.  When I find individual liberty being everywhere lessened by regimentation, I will not on that account pretend that regimentation is a good thing.  It may be necessary for a time, but one should not on that account acquiesce in it as part of any society that one can admire.

-Bertrand Russell, from his essay "Hopes: Realized and Disappointed", as contained in this fine little tome.

Points of view...........................

        If you're like most people, you have no clue how other people see things and aren't good at seeking to understand what they are thinking, because you're too preoccupied with telling them what you yourself think is correct.   In other words, you are close-minded;  you presume too much. This closed-mindedness is terribly costly;  it causes you to miss out on all sorts of wonderful possibilities and dangerous threats that other people might be showing you - and it blocks criticism that could be constructive and even lifesaving. 

-Ray Dalio,  Principles

Fifty years ago.................................

Booker T & The M.G.'s..........................................Soul-Limbo

Doesn't always seem that way.......

Endless house cleaning..............

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Connections.........................

“No matter what you look at, if you look at it closely enough, you are involved in the entire universe.” 

-Michael Faraday

image via APOD

Yep..................................

"Yet Trump’s apparent success, flawed as it is, offers one more illustration of how the corruption of ruling U.S. elites created a vacuum that opened the door to Trumpism."

-as cut and pasted from here

Grace under pressure....................

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Good question.....................

Interesting sentences.............

     Lele smiled his crooked smile, one side of his mouth turning down, the other up, a smile Brunetti had always thought best expressed the Italian character, never quite sure of gloom or glee and always ready to switch from one to the other.

-Donna Leon,   Acqua Alta

Fifty years ago..............................

Joe Tex.....................................................Skinny Legs and All