25 Dec Way Of Way 105
The greatest blessing is realizing we are blessed....
22 Dec Meditation of death
Sometimes we take our circumstances and ourselves very seriously. This can be stressful. If we compartmentalize our predicament, we can put it in perspective and not let it affect other aspects of our life which otherwise are pleasing and from which we can take solace. However, compartmentalization is not easy. Alternatively, we can find relief through the meditation of death, looking at our current situation from the perspective of the end of days. From that perspective we can look back at our lives and realize that much we once took seriously now seems ridiculous....
20 Dec Penn Tanenbaum
"You get love, that's enough." Today my five year old grandson, Penn, was defiant, unwilling to take his feet off our living room couch when I told him to do so. I said: "You have no respect for your grandfather." He said: "You get love, that's enough." I laughed; The Beatles were right, all you need is love....
19 Dec John Thorn (MLB’s official historian)
"History has to be fluid; if it were not fluid, why do we get periodic new biographies of Lincoln or Jesus? Stats are a funny thing. The deeper you go, the more impressed you are with the fact that these are symbols. They are not solid things."...
17 Dec Frank Zappa
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”...
15 Dec Charles Bukowski
“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."...
14 Dec Second Law of Thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases with time. As such, it is easier to predict the near-future but less predictable is the distant-future. However, over time, as the distant-future becomes the near-future, it is more predictable. As well, the past becomes increasingly less certain over time; yet we often convince ourselves otherwise....
07 Dec Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” Life is an experiment. Whether a success or a failure is of little matter. What counts is whether it merits a writeup. If not, we haven't lived....
05 Dec Pablo Picasso
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”...