Thursday, 6 December 2012

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)

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

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)

Monday, 3 December 2012

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.
 

This is my body

  I stopped worrying one day about how I looked in the eyes of others And I was able to say “This is my body It’s been through a lot and it ...