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.
 

Salt and ash

  It was the last promise to be kept. My grandparents reposed where they had longed to be, at last. For yes, I had tarried. The morning sea ...