Today’s Word
Succedaneum A substitute, especially for a medicine or drug.
Today’s Quote
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. Keanu Reeves
Today’s Quote
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis, former Supreme Court associate justice
Today’s Quote
You were once wild. Don’t let them tame you. Isadora Duncan From New York to London, Paris to Moscow, Isadora Duncan danced her way across the world. Never one to be restricted by the rigidity of traditional ballet or the limitations of commercial performance, Duncan developed her own unique vision of dance — one inspired by nature, […]
Mr. Rogers Was Florida Strong (Today’s Quote)
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. Mr. Rogers
The Loss Or Disruption Of Senses
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway Five years ago, I wrote a post about the disorientation caused by the loss of listening and hearing as part of a series on the importance of our five senses. You can find it here. There’s […]
Monday Quote
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Teddy Roosevelt
It’s Banned Book Week and Mike Royko’s Birthday!! Savor the irony.
Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn’t the faintest idea what the heck is really going on. Mike Royko On a related note, George Orwell’s 1984 is the most banned book in history. I love that To Kill A Mockingbird is high on […]
TS Eliot Knew: Lots of Information Without Enough Knowledge
From 1920 (pre-internet): The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little […]
Summer: Do These Chucks Go with Seersucker?
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. F. Scott Fitzgerld If I could try cases in my Chucks, I would.