Embrace life's challenges.......

4.  You may think that taking a detour in life is a waste of time and energy, but you can also see the detour as a means of learning more about who you are and where you are headed.  Being off the beaten path may be disorienting and confusing at times, yet it challenges your creative spirit to discover new ways to build a stronger you.

-Marc & Angel Chernoff,  1000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do Differently, from the Chapter:  10 Actions That Always Bring Happiness

Quotable..........................

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

-attributed to William Butler Yeats, but I found the quote, unattributed, here

Stand for something............

Add up the sum of our days and that’s who we are. We get what we repeat.

-Seth Godin, from here

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

The Moody Blues...from A Question of Balance:  Melancholy Man

I'm a melancholy man, that's what I am,
All the world surrounds me, and my feet are on the ground.
I'm a very lonely man, doing what I can,
All the world astounds me and I think I understand
That we're going to keep growing, wait and see.

When all the stars are falling down
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind,
A beam of light will fill your head
And you'll remember what's been said
By all the good men this world's ever known.
Another man is what you'll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same,
His life caught up in misery, he doesn't think like you and me,
'Cause he can't see what you and I can see.

Whimsy in the age of Covid.........

more fun here

The great sin.....................?

In my research, I have found the so-called Millennial generation to be every bit as shallow, irresponsible, stupid, and smart-assed as my own, and what is worse, younger.

-David Warren, from this post

On the wisdom..................................

.................................................of one war at a time.

On the contagiousness...............

..................................................................of behavior.

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

The Allman Brothers.....from the amazing Idlewild South:  Revival

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

Spirit.......from the Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus:  Nature's Way

Be very careful what you wish for......

     Lest there be any misunderstanding:  It is capitalism that opened the gates to the Land of Plenty, but capitalism alone cannot sustain it.  Progress has become synonymous with economic prosperity, but the twenty-first century will challenge us to find other ways of boosting out quality of life.

. . .  conflicting utopias are the lifeblood of democracy, after all.

     True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce:  wisdom about what it means to live well.

If anything, kids today are struggling under the burden of too much pampering.

-Rutger Bregman, being a few excerpts from his Utopia For Realists:  How We Can Build The Ideal World

a torment without end.................

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

-C. S. Lewis, read the balance of the passage here

He's pretty good..................

...........................at searching for the silver lining.

Speaking of silver linings....................

1. Necessity is the mother of invention, so our willingness to solve problems is about to surge.

2. Worry will exceed actual harm, which is both tragic and in a way comforting.

-as cut and pasted from Two Things We Know With High Confidence

Maintaining a sense of humor...........

more fun here