Minoean

"No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same."

Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

Timelapse views of Venice during the day and night

Youngblood Brass Band - Brooklyn

What is the airspeed velocity of a raindrop?

A very interesting article on fossil raindrops.

Man-ichean

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."

Milan Kundera, novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1929)

One day at a time

 

"finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

R.W. Emerson.

 

Huge Saturn vortex swirls in stunning NASA photos | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Huge Saturn vortex swirls in stunning NASA photos | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Tidig Gryning / Juste avant l'aube

Några sista stjärnor lysa matt.
Jag ser dem ur mitt fönster. Himlen är blek,
man anar knappast dagen som börjar i fjärran.
Det vilar en tystnad utbredd över sjön,
det ligger en viskning på lur mellan träden,
min gamla trädgård lyssnar halvförstrött
till nattens andetag, som susa över vägen.

Edith Södergran, Dikter, 1916.


Quelques ultimes étoiles mates luisent.
De ma fenêtre, je les vois. Le ciel est pâle,
à peine devine-t-on le jour qui naît au loin.
Un silence s'étend sur le lac,
chuchotement à l'affût entre les arbres,
mon vieux jardin écoute un peu distrait le souffle
de la nuit qui passe sur la route.

Edith Södergran, Poèmes, 1916 (Orphée / La Différence).

Just do it

"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it."

Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949)

Close "clear-air" lightning bolt! - Darwin Australia