"When we're grateful, our problems don't disappear, they simply occupy less space in our hearts, minds, and lives."
-from here
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Grateful..........................
"When we're grateful, our problems don't disappear, they simply occupy less space in our hearts, minds, and lives."
-from here
Decisions, decisions, decisions......
Uncertainty shrinks your field of vision at the worst time. When the world changes in a 24-hour period it becomes hard to think more than 24 hours ahead. The year ahead is impossible to envision when assumptions you had at breakfastime were destroyed by dinnertime. The irony is that long-term thinking is most powerful when everything is falling apart. The majority of long-term results are determined by decisions made during a minority of times, and right now is one of those times. It’s a tragic moment to become short-sighted.
-Morgan Housel, from this post
More wisdom....................
When the old glasses don't work, it helps to get a new pair.
-From this post from our man in Phoenix
This actually makes a lot of sense.....
In short, when it comes to detecting emotion in other people, the face and body do not speak for themselves. Instead, variation is the norm. Your brain may automatically make sense of someone’s movements in context, allowing you to guess what a person is feeling, but you are always guessing, never detecting.
-from this Nautilus post, Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite: Think you can read people’s emotions? Think again.
via
Healthy thinking..................
No one wants to hear this right now because we’re living in scary times but things will get better eventually. They’re likely to get worse before they get better, potentially much worse, but I have faith in our human spirit to continue moving forward.
-Ben Carlson, as culled from here
Happy Birthday, Al....................
"Yeah Einstein was pretty smart in high school but you should have seen this other guy!"
-as cut-and-pasted from here
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
My favorite optimist..................
…........................…….takes a turn toward pessimism:
It is very easy, in other words, to bet on the tendency of journalists and their readers to engage in a competitive auction of unjustified alarm. “The whole aim of practical politics,” said H.L. Mencken, “is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” And no, the fact that the millennium bug was a damp squib was not because we were well prepared; some countries and industries did nothing and were still fine.
So why don’t I think this hobgoblin is imaginary? First, because lethal plagues have a long track record. From the plague of Justinian to the Black Death to the Spanish flu of 1918 to the HIV epidemic, new diseases have proved they can burn through the human population with frightening efficiency. It’s true we have got better at eradicating infectious diseases through vaccinations, pills and public health, but most viruses are still very hard to cure and some are very easy to catch.
Dreamin............................
What a day for a daydream
Custom made for a daydreamin' boy
And now I'm lost in a daydream
Dreamin 'bout my bundle of joy
-John Sebastian
Stringing words together in a fun way.....
It is a vapor of anxiety and resentment, a shorthand for the incomprehensible complexity of modern business life that has its uses in the imbecilic politics of our time and in the vast apparatus of self-moronization that enables that politics.
-Kevin Williamson
Monday, March 9, 2020
Two........................................
“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”
–Johnny Cash
please..............................
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me
-Lennon/McCartney
Opening paragraphs...................
The world was going mad in the spring of 1939, or that's how it seemed to Joan Bright. A jaunty twenty-nine-year-old with swept up hair and a button-down dress, she had travelled to London in search of secretarial work, having just turned down a job in Germany as governess to the children of Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich.
-Giles Milton: Churchill's Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Forward.......................
There were all these pieces split and broker on the floor, and she spent days on end trying to put the pieces back together again. But if she only realized that life is meant not to restore what was but rather to create something new and move forward.
-Courtney Peppernell, from Pillow Thoughts III: Mending the Mind
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Get together.....................
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now
-Chet Powers, aka Dino Valente
Get the chance........................
Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying
Like tomorrow was a gift
And you've got eternity
To think about
What you'd do with it
What could you do with it
What did I do with it?
What would I do with it?
-Tim McGraw
On wants and needs.................
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
-Jagger/Richards
Believe.........................
This world's gone crazy
It's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway
-Martina McBride
Now...................
It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
- Bon Jovi
Arise.......................
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
-The Beatles
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