True.......................................

32. There’s always another level. Just be content knowing that you are still better off than most who have ever lived.
-from this list of 99 Rules To Live By

Not a member........................

The Oracle Google was consulted.  My best guess was not even close.  Well, who needs another meeting anyway.

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Parenting, circa 2015....................?

Childhood is a magical time. There are so many new experiences, so many things to do and see. That’s one reason I decided to take Xavier with me to toddler yoga. It’s a safe place to meet other kids, try something new, and have fun. It’s also the perfect place for him to learn how to vanquish his enemies and conquer the entire fucking world. This will be his legacy. This will be my legacy.

-as excerpted from this McSweeny's Internet Tendency blog post

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

Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure........Don't Mess Up A Good Thing

Marketing, circa 2016....................

Christmas gifts for those "hard to buy for" folk?

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Regulation...............................

"Regulation is often the enemy of competition.  Where regulation prescribes the conduct of business in considerable detail, it is inevitable that all firms will behave similarly:  a particular conception of 'best practice' will be shared between regulators and regulatees.  Incumbent firms with close links to agencies may use regulation to resist innovation and raise barriers to new entrants."

-John Kay,  Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance

Why...............................................?

Under a big blue sky..................

Brian Wilson....................................................Country Feelin'

Country feelins they're a-callin me
And brother I'm feelin' fine
Wanna cut loose from the city
Get out and run around
Country feelin's movin' in
My feet are dancin' in the hot sunshine
I'm gonna spread that country feelin' all around the town

Country feelin's at a county fair
And under a big blue sky
See those bright birds fly
Cotton candy and apple pie
Country feelin's puttin' me on top of the world
On this happy day
I'm gonna spread that country feelin' all around the town

Country, country feelin'
Country, country feelin'
Country, country feelin'
Wo wo oh-oh

Country feelin's they got me sittin'
Right there in a rockin' chair
On a porch outside with a cold lemonade in the
Clean fresh air
Stand up tall be proud of yourself
And you just step out there
I'm gonna spread those country feelin's all around the town
I'm gonna spread that country feelin' all around the town
I'm gonna spread that country feelin' all around the town
I'm gonna spread that country feelin' all around the town

I love it

thanks Gina

On the importance of language..........

I want gezelligheid in my life. I want to create a sense of gezelligheid for my loved ones. I want my home to ooze gezelligheid. I want to make people feel gezelligheid just by being around me. Lofty goals, but from the moment I learned of the word, I got it. It’s the word that expresses something that I literally yearn to have/be/create.

-Gina, as excepted from here

Good news indeed........................

The Intertunnel can be a wondrous place.  Being introduced to new blogs like this one make it even more so.  Thanks Scott.

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day......

...................of the eleventh month in 1918 and the "war to end all wars" draws to a close.  Happy Armistice Day.

first photo from here

Democracy's race to the bottom...................

“If our school system exists, not in view of a chosen minority, but in view of all, its average level should answer the average level of the population as a whole. Hence the unavoidable consequence that the best gifted among the pupils will be discriminated against. Nor should we imagine that creative minds will multiply in direct proportion to the growth of the school population. The reverse is much more likely to happen. In aristocratic societies, genius has often found access to higher culture, even under adverse circumstances; in democratic societies, it will have no higher culture to which to gain access. Since equality in ignorance is easier to achieve than equality in learning, each and every teacher will have to equalize his class at the bottom level rather than at the top one, and the whole school system will spontaneously obey the same law. It is anti-democratic to teach all children what only some of them are able to learn. Nay, it is anti-democratic to teach what all children can learn by means of methods which only a minority of pupils are able to follow. Since, as has been said, democracy stands for equality, democratic societies have a duty to teach only what is accessible to all and to see to it that it be made accessible to all. The overwhelming weight of their school population is therefore bound to lower the centre of gravity in their school systems. The first peril for democracies, therefore, is to consider it their duty, in order to educate all citizens, to teach each of them less and less and in a less and less intelligent way.”

-Etienne Gilson, quote extracted from this David Warren post

There comes a time................................

“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.” 


-José N. Harris

thanks Nicholas

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

Johnny Rivers..................................................Midnight Special

Ah, Grasshopper..............................

It all gets so confusing............................

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Speaking of.......................................

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Time to recall the search party.........

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.  You will never life if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus

.............they can't compare.............

Santana........................................................All I Ever Wanted

On ceasing.................................

"A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.   And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts;  ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and possibilities within himself."

-James Allen,   As A Man Thinketh