Aging gracefully...................

How to really know something.............

Ryan Holiday offers the unwelcomed answer (his post includes a
quote from blog favorite Richard Feynman).  Full post here.
Excerpt here:
"That comes from rigor and discipline. From humility and understatement. It comes practices, checklists, from methods, and the scientific method. It comes from staying up late reading, not blogging. It comes from having deep connections with a handful of smart people who push you to be better, not networking. It comes from separating ideas from your identity—so you can pick up, discard, pick up, rearrange, discard and pick them up at whim."

Hmmmmmm........

Glad we got that straight...............

On competition............................

Believe.....................

From The Tao of Pooh:

     "In order to take control of our lives and accomplish
something of lasting value, sooner or later we need to learn
to Believe.  We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto
the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit
around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. 
We simply need to believe in the power that's within us,
and use it.  When we do that, and stop imitating others
and competing against them, things begin to work for us."

Knowing when to hold 'em...........

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but
sometimes of playing a poor hand well. "
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Lending standards have gotten tougher....

Are we sure "global warming" is all bad....?

Opening paragraphs..............

     "Selfmade men always do a lopsided job of it, and the sheriff had come out conspicuously short on the capacity to sympathize with anyone but himself.  No doubt ears were still burning at the Fort Peck end of the telephone connection; he'd had to tell that overgrown sap of an undersheriff he didn't give a good goddamn what the night foreman said about dangerous, get the thing fished out of the river if it meant using every last piece of equipment at the dam site.  This was what he was up against all the time, the sheriff commiserated with himself during the drive from Glasgow now, toward dawn.  People never behaving one bit better than they could get away with."
-Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun

Just trying to be helpful.................

On transitions...........

"In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and
behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn."
-Kahlil Gibran, Self Portrait

Aging gracefully................

To the ear of the auditor.................

The 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language list - here.
And no,  supercalifragilisticexpialidocious did not make the cut.


thanks tigerhawk

On reading the "tells"................

A public service reminder.........

thanks Jessica

Still one of my most valued possessions....

Oh yeah...............

Aging gracefully................

Well, actually...........................