January 2012
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“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
– Albert Einstein
Jan 1st
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“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (probably on a New Year’s Eve many years ago)
Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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“I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.”
– Michael Cunningham
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it...”
– L.M. Montgomery       Every day is a new year.
Dec 31st
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Wondrous Life
Happy Birthday, Junot Diaz. Jersey boy and fellow Rutgers alum. His first novel — The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) — won the Pulitzer Prize. Pretty sweet.
Dec 31st
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Finals Tweets of Those Who Died in 2011
Last tweets don’t have the impact or gravity of last words… The New York TImes Magazine has scoured the web for the final tweets of some of 2011’s biggest personalities and avid tweeters who died this past year.The hashtag #LastTweet, collects finals tweets of those who died this past year. The magazine features tweets from actress Elizabeth Taylor, war photographer Tim...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
Zeitgeist 2011 →
Google offers a yearly review called Zeitgeist about how the world searched during the past year. What mattered in 2011 - according to search? Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to…
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Harmonies of the World and Spiritual Science →
I noticed on an almanac site that December 27 was the birthday of German astronomer Johannes Kepler, born 1571. Kepler intended to become a theologian, but when he read Copernicus’s Six Books…
Dec 30th
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“The reason some people get lost in thought is because its unfamiliar territory.”
– Steven Wright
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Patti Smith turns 65 today. That seems wrong. One night, a friend with an electric guitar accompanied her at an NYC poetry reading. She started blending poetry with punk rock in a way that was closer to how earlier poets had used jazz. She released 12 albums. Horses (1975) is considered a punk rock classic. “In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you...
Dec 30th
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The Perils of SOPA →
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is the proposed intellectual property laws that are now in Congress. Both houses have bills that are aimed at combating copyright infringement of movies, music and…
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Dec 30th
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Finding the sweet spot
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Time to Read
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time, or the tools, to write. Simple as that.”  — Stephen King Thank goodness for vacation time and weekends.
Dec 29th
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Order
The feng shui of my home office is very bad.
Dec 29th
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
Dec 29th
Dec 29th
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“So many books, so little time.”
– Frank Zappa
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“With great power there must also come great responsibility.”
– This saying was popularized by Stan Lee, who celebrates his 89th birthday today. He was born Stanley Lieber in New York City. The line comes from the Spider-Man comic, about a teenager who’s bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes a crime-fighting superhero. Stan Lee also helped create the...
Dec 28th
Dec 28th
Dec 28th
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Somehow the point was lost,
somewhere along the way… “I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit. “No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it along the way.” ― A.A. Milne
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Winter Syntax
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him. There are easier ways of making sense, the connoisseurship of gesture, for example. You hold a girl’s face in your hands like a vase. You lift…...
Dec 27th
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“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the...”
– Albert Einstein
Dec 27th
Dec 27th
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The Art of Being
The fern in the rain breathes the silver message. Stay, lie low. Play your dark reeds and relearn the beauty of absorption. There is nothing beyond the rotten log covered with leaves and needles. Forget the light emerging with its golden wick. Raise your face to the water-laden frond. A thousand blossoms will fall into your arms. by Anne Coray a meditation on the stillness of nature that...
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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It’s Still A Wonderful Life →
I was watching It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve with my family and my oldest friend, Ron. Ron and I are film buffs and he wondered if there was a real town that the film’s Bedford Fall is based…
Dec 26th
Dec 25th
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A Planet For Christmas →
This month a planet, properly known as Kepler 22-b, was revealed by NASA. They have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system using the Kepler space telescope. But this one is the most…
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Follow Santa's Flight Through Time and Space →
At Serendipity35, we still believe that Santa Claus is alive and well in the hearts of people throughout the world. And what more evidence do you need than the fact that NORAD is tracking Santa…
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Visions of the Year 2000 →
It is the end of the year and that’s a time when we always see predictions of what is to be in the coming year, decade and beyond. I came across an online arts magazine called Zouch. One of their…
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd