I'll tell you what's fair.....................

Animal House................................Deltas on Trial

 

     courtesy of

The spell is...............................

 

.........................................broken.

'Tis the season.........................

    August Burns Red.........................Carol of the Bells

 

A guy who loves.....................................

 

............................................books.

Checking in with Mark Twain..................

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and . . . Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

good ones, anyway..................

 

Someone says life is hard.

The comedian says, "Compared to what?"

Comedians are philosophers.

-Derek Sivers

on your knees...................

Jennifer Nettles..................O Holy Night/Hallelujah

    

Heaven forbid....................

 William Tyndale once was burned at the stake by the existing powers that be (the church) for translating the bible into English so the people could read it. Elon Musk may have a similar impact by having proposed Congressional bills translated into plain English by Grok so people know what the true costs are. Also look for the powers that be to try and burn him (metaphorically) at the stake...

-Chris Lynch, from here

Consistency....................

 Stop trying to be spectacular. Start being consistent. . . .

Moments don't make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest consistency isn't in doing brilliant things but avoiding stupid ones. Every mistake puts you in hard mode, forcing you to make up lost ground. 

-Farnam Street

Forgiveness.....................

 

Christianity places forgiveness at the very center of man’s relationship to God, as an unmerited gift. Taken to heart, this can’t help but color our dealings with one another. The thing about forgiveness is that it is always unmerited. It is a renunciation on the part of the one who offers it, a turning-away from pride that opens a kind of manger in the heart. It is a humble place where something new arrives and we turn toward it. A birth.

-Matthew B. Crawford, from here

Step two.........................