Can't wait.......................

When the incomparable PowerLine blog posted their weekly "The Week in Pictures", this was one of them:

Curiosity being what it is, the Oracle Google was consulted.  The story line for the fifth installment of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones is here (scheduled for release next summer).  Trailer here:

Whiskey River Soap Company................

................located in wondrous downtown Newark, Ohio, was featured on NBC's Today Show:

 

What is not to love about a company that describes themself like this:

Whiskey River Soap Co. was founded more than fourteen million years ago in the outskirts of Ancient Rome by a ragtag group of freelance gladiators, stray dogs and out-of-work magicians. Apart, these charlatans were nothing but lazy ne'er do wells akin to a modern-day cable company, but when they encountered one another by chance at the dumpster behind the monster truck rodeo and picked up that legendary tube of half-used superglue, they formed a bond that would last throughout the ages, and even be featured on the History Channel as incontestable proof of alien life.

Okay, maybe not. However, we do very much admire magicians, monster truck rodeos and superglue. So why don't we just start over?

Hi! We're Whiskey River Soap Co. We also create all kinds of handmade soaps, candles and bath bombs that smell great and hopefully make you laugh, plus a growing assortment of other fun items! Anyway, we're all about creating our own products locally because we're not just selling you a funny label wrapped around something mass-produced in China. We think there's a place for both quality and humor to exist together, and hope you agree.

Congratulations Tabitha.  Hope you sell a billion. 

A holiday tradition....................

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

Interesting.........................

 

We need to accept that we do not know and cannot know what is going to happen, and make plans accordingly; to practice resilience and acquire and retain as many options as possible.

 Knight's insight—that it is radical uncertainty which gives opportunity for entrepreneurship—is fundamental to an understanding of social, technological and economic progress.  Through evolutionary processes—biological, institutional, political, market-driven—entrepreneurship drives us forward.  Not just in business but in scholarship, practical knowledge, the arts, and many other areas of life.

Think big..........................

                Remembering that . . .

Reflect, relive, ponder, and refine...........

      We must labor to make certain that our memories of past experiences, whether good or bad, are accurate if they are to serve us and to make the future better than the past.  We must reflect on our past, reliving the moments, pondering the lessons, and refining out current conduct based on the lessons of our personal history.  If we have manipulated the truth of the past, if we have tended to blame others rather than ourselves, then we are seeking an escape from reality, and we will be destined to repeat past errors and relive present difficulties.

-Jim Rohn, as culled from The Five Major Pieces To The Life Puzzle

Chester Nimitz......................

“Whenever possible, take calculated risks as may be warranted”

"I do not want to hear or see such gloom and defeatism. We are not going to do any good sitting here mourning or wailing or wringing our hands. Do the best you can with what you have."

“All we can do is bide our time and take advantage of any opportunity that might come along.”

-back story may be found here

Excess............................

       The archer who overshoots the target misses as much as the one who does not reach it.  And my eyes trouble me as much when I raise them suddenly to a strong light as when I drop them into the shadow.  Callicles, in Plato, says that the extremity of philosophy is harmful, and advises us not to plunge into it beyond the limits of profit; that taken with moderation, it is pleasant and advantageous, but that in the end it makes a man wild and vicious, disdainful of common religions and laws, and enemy of social intercourse, an enemy of human pleasures, incapable of any political administration and of helping either others or himself, fit to be slapped with impunity.  He speaks truly, for in its excess it enslaves our natural freedom and, by importunate subtlety, leads us astray from the fine and level road that nature has traced for us.

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works, Book 1, Chapter 30

Ten big ideas........................

 1) Imago Dei: Every person is inherently valuable independent of behavior and beliefs. Everyone matters. Treat people accordingly, without exception.

5) Messy: Life is messy. People are messy. Business is messy. Relationships are messy. I’m messy. Messiness should never be surprising. Give myself and others grace.

-The balance of Brent Beshore's list is here

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Asking.......................

.................................a very good question:

What use could they have for our modern gizmos, who already knew what they needed to know?

Ed. Note: Sort of surprising, but the definition of ischaemia can be found here

Apparently..................

 .............he made good use of his "15 seconds" because I just ordered another book from Barnes & Noble.

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

Allen Toussaint.........................................Soul Sister

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

 Any Major Dude With Half A Heart visits 1972 and some "major albums of the year."

Giving evangelism a good name.................

      I'm an evangelist for Mozart, Caravaggio, and Stevenson.  Missionary work takes perseverance and patience, key to conversion being experience, which leads to dialog, which leads to exploration, which leads to choice, which leads to understanding and growth. . . . Kids need to be told stories, not by appeasers, but by crusaders who care about their hearts and souls, by those willing to use courage and take the time to read to kids, sing to kids, dance to Mozart with kids; showing the not only The Way, but the purpose and the benefit of The Way.

-Rob Firchau, from this forever post

the long struggle...............

 Service, ambition, duty, loyalty, the desire to be the best, the desire to say yes—not such bad character traits to have cherished. I always thought of them as strengths, but lately I wonder if somewhere along the line they became a cover for something more suspicious.

-Bono, as culled from this wondrous blog

the edge.........................

 In a competition between someone who knows the most and someone who is willing to learn the most, the edge usually goes to the curious and empathic professional, not the one who is simply protecting what’s already known.

-Seth Godin

Join............................

 ...............................the revolution!

Sixty years ago..................

Gene Chandler..............................Duke of Earl

 

Divine...............................

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

 

Uh-oh........................

 Old men especially are dangerous, whose memory of things remains, but who have lost the memory of their repetitions.  I have seen some very amusing stories become very boring in the mouth of one nobleman, everyone present having been sated with them a hundred times.

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works, Book 1, Chapter 9