Make everyday................................

....................................................................a self-care day.

Thanks Nan

Satisfied.............................................

"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."
-Albert Einstein

It's our way and its the best way.................

John Denver & Cass Elliot...................Leaving On A Jet Plane

I guess this means..............................

.........................................the Arctic is not yet ice-free.

It’s not something Parks Canada’s underwater archaeologists can handle on their own, so for nine weeks they’ve been working with expert ice divers from the Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic. Parks Canada divers and the Navy divers have been training together so that the former can learn how to dive safely in below-freezing water under a sheet of ice that’s at least six feet thick (a terrifying practice known as confined space diving) and the latter can learn how to properly handle an underwater archaeological site and its artifacts.

The History Blog offers this story of human determination and grit, the recovery of the HMS Erebus.

More on the tale of the HMS Erebus here.

The word itself..................................

thanks for reminding me, Michael

So, I read this sentence.......................

...............................................on Arnold Kling's blog:

"I like to say that money is a consensual hallucination, using the phrase that William Gibson coined to describe cyberspace, a term that he also coined."

............and I wondered, "who is William Gibson?"   According to the all-knowing Wiki, William Gibson "is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the 'noir prophet' of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction."  If that doesn't raise the curiosity level, I'm not sure what will.  Anyway, Gibson is fairly quotable.  Here is a wee sample:

On the most basic level, computers in my books are simply a metaphor for human memory: I'm interested in the hows and whys of memory, the ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily memory is subject to revision. 

The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts…

 It's that truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that's something peculiar to our time. I don't think our grandparents had to live with that.

I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's nochicken, right?

“Honey,” Jammer said, “you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.”

The future is not google-able.

Got that right......................................

"The most astonishing thing about the extraordinary outpouring of growth and innovation that the United States and other economies have achieved over the past two centuries is that it does not astonish us."

Source, and another excerpt here.  Full article is behind the WSJ paywall, that I have chosen not to breech.

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

Gene Pitney............................Last Chance To Turn Around

Key ingredient.........................

      Walter used to read the short biographies of successful people in Who's Who, seeking some common thread or a key ingredient in a person's success.  He concluded that there was none.  "I was struck by the fact that there was no pattern."
-Phillip L. Zweig,  Wriston:  Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy

I'd bet a nickel that there was a pattern, a pattern in the way they organized their minds and controlled their thoughts.  Just saying.

The Right Thing.....................................

Let others probe the mystery if they can.
Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -
The right thing happens to the happy man.

The bird flies out, the bird flies back again;
The hill becomes the valley, and is still;
Let others delve that mystery if they can.

God bless the roots! - Body and soul are one!
The small become the great, the great the small;
The right thing happens to the happy man.

Child of the dark, he can out leap the sun,
His being single, and that being all:
The right thing happens to the happy man.

Or he sits still, a solid figure when
The self-destructive shake the common wall;
Takes to himself what mystery he can,

And, praising change as the slow night comes on,
Wills what he would, surrendering his will
Till mystery is no more: No more he can.
The right thing happens to the happy man.

-Theodore Roethke
via

Sometimes a downward trend is a good thing....

The Calculated Risk blog posts this chart on "energy expenditures as a percentage of consumer spending":

Larger image (where you can actually read the dates) is here

A generation's anthem...............................

The Snake Oil Willie Band..........I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore



thanks jonco

On listening...........................................

      As Wriston's responsibilities broadened, he remembered what his father had told him about the willingness of people to spill their guts to an interested listener.  Plying subordinates with jelly beans as his father did was not Walter Wriston's style.  In the late afternoon, Wriston would walk the sixth floor, sit down in his subordinates' guest chairs, put his feet on their desk, and puff on his cigar.  "He'd sit there with his feet on your desk and chew the fat," said a former overseas hand.  Said Wriston, "If you go out and walk around the floor talking with the bookkeepers, if you create a climate where people know you care what they're saying they'll tell you a lot.  That's really your data base on operations."  Over the next thirty years, Wriston would make his fair share of mistakes, but failing to listen to workers in the trenches would be the least of them.

      Both Henry and Walter Wriston were fascinated with the gathering and dissemination of information.  Early in his banking career, Wriston concluded that information about money was more important to the business than money itself.

-Phillip L. Zweig,  Wriston:  Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy

From time to time we have joked...............

.............that Ohio's long term economic growth plan was to just hold on until the southwest ran out of water.  Not looking so funny now.   This could get very interesting.

Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it's off to work I go..................

thanks craig

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

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles...........The Tracks Of My Tears

Almost always worth asking.......................

thanks

Keeping Things Whole........................

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

-Mark Strand

Why living forever................................

..................................will be difficult for us baby boomers.

Come....................................................