Established 2002
I was born to be an artist. My mom named me, and I’ve never been too excited about what she picked out, so I use my initials. “A” is for Arthur; she thought about naming me “Arthur Rackham Tist” but my dad said, “What kind of a middle name is ‘Rackham’ nowadays?” So she settled …
“What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.” John Lennon
And what a year it was … Talking on the phone to an old friend, you hear people are so grateful to have this year ending soon. Same for social media. And if anyone still wrote letters, there’d likely be the same sentiment expressed in cursive. Cursive for a cursed year. As it winds down, …
Since it looks as though either nasty winter weather or the need for social distancing may have more of us staying home currently, here’s a quick reminder that you may find useful. Project Gutenberg ( http://www.gutenberg.org/help/new_website.html ) now has over 60,000 books you may read and enjoy online or download to peruse at your leisure, …
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot Perhaps the waning days of sequestration will give all of us time to consider changes in our outlook, career, and avocations. That would draw good from discontent.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~Thomas Edison What would Edison have thought about that country song ?
“When he who hears doesn’t know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks doesn’t know what he himself means – That is philosophy.” – Voltaire So cocktail party conversation is actually philosophy?
Then, in the next (last!) weeks of this terrible year, scrape together small amounts of time as often as you can. During these times, allow yourself to look ahead and anticipate. Plan. Think. And plan some more. Write those plans on your new calendar with expectations of fulfilling them. The Covid-19 virus cannot disrupt our …
Photo by Tyler Lastovich on unsplash “Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.” – E.B. White (author of ‘Charlotte’s Web’)
“Do not multiply postulated entities without necessity.” And if William had lived much, much, later in another era or two, his 14th century intellectualism may have been traded for today’s five second philosophy. Now, he’d say, “Keep it simple, stupid.”