May 25, 2013
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is the birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in Boston in 1803.

Here’s a nice thought from him for the end of a day.

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt 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.”

May 25, 2013
Sometimes all the therapy a person needs is some time to read.

Sometimes all the therapy a person needs is some time to read.

(via pizzamia)

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May 25, 2013
"I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

May 25, 2013
Peanuts and theology

Peanuts and theology

May 25, 2013
Happy birthday, Ralph.  
People don’t use the word “hobgoblin” enough these days.

Happy birthday, Ralph.  

People don’t use the word “hobgoblin” enough these days.

May 25, 2013
"The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible. By the time a man has grown old enough to have a son in college he has specialized. The university should generalize the treatment of its undergraduates, should struggle to put them in touch with every force of life."

— Woodrow Wilson, 1909

(Source: ryanshistoryblog)

May 25, 2013

Memorial Day weekend with Barnacle Bill playing miniature golf in Ortley Beach, NJ

…and some of his relatives

May 25, 2013
Observing NaturePlant Phenology Icons
I was looking at this very heavy textbook on phenologythat I can’t imagine…View Post

Observing Nature

Plant Phenology Icons

I was looking at this very heavy textbook on phenologythat I can’t imagine…

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May 24, 2013

Frankie, Annette and we were so right on the edge of innocence disappearing (1967)

(Source: youtube.com)

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May 24, 2013
Have You Emptied Your Bowl?A monk said to Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”“Have you eaten your…View Post

Have You Emptied Your Bowl?

A monk said to Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”
“Have you eaten your…

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Filed under: Buddhism Joshu koan Zen 
May 24, 2013
nervous little dogs…

nervous little dogs…

(Source: arielsierrastepp)

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Filed under: far side Cartoons humor 
May 24, 2013
"Our life would be what we made of it—nothing more, nothing less."

Paul Zindel, The Pigman

May 24, 2013
It’s the birthday of Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in 1941. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up in nearby Hibbing, just off the road that ran all the way up from New Orleans and lent its name to his sixth album, 1965’s Highway 61 Revisited.
He moved down to Minneapolis and studied art at the University of Minnesota, and though he’d started out his musical career with a rock ‘n’ roll band, he soon converted to folk, playing gigs at a coffeehouse, the 10 O’clock Scholar, in the Dinkytown neighborhood north of campus. Rock was catchy, but it wasn’t deep enough to satisfy him, and he later said: “I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings.”
He left for New York and became the darling of Greenwich Village’s folk community.

It’s the birthday of Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in 1941. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up in nearby Hibbing, just off the road that ran all the way up from New Orleans and lent its name to his sixth album, 1965’s Highway 61 Revisited.

He moved down to Minneapolis and studied art at the University of Minnesota, and though he’d started out his musical career with a rock ‘n’ roll band, he soon converted to folk, playing gigs at a coffeehouse, the 10 O’clock Scholar, in the Dinkytown neighborhood north of campus. Rock was catchy, but it wasn’t deep enough to satisfy him, and he later said: “I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings.”

He left for New York and became the darling of Greenwich Village’s folk community.

(Source: mygang)

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May 23, 2013
Great wildlife photos from njwight - who I must admit I found and followed on tumblr initially because I thought he/she was a New Jersey photographer.
Turned out that nj is not from NJ at all - Nancie Wight - read all about her— and follow her tumblr for more photos.

Great wildlife photos from njwight - who I must admit I found and followed on tumblr initially because I thought he/she was a New Jersey photographer.

Turned out that nj is not from NJ at all - Nancie Wight - read all about her— and follow her tumblr for more photos.

May 23, 2013
"I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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