Here is the essence of me. Maybe the "kidlets" will find it amusing. I still have the glass and love how milk makes a nice background for the flowers. A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."
SHOEBOX
I told you this is a shoebox and we all know that we simply put stuff into a shoebox in no particular order. That's how things are going to appear here. When something whaps me over the head you will be the first to know.
Right now, I want to tell you about my favorite blog in the whole wide world - Margaret and Helen. Hope you go read their post called "I can see November" - while there note their statistics. A grandson set this site up and it's been around the world several times. Margaret and Helen have been friends for over sixty years and counting.
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/
Don Floyd and I have been friends for more than thirty years and counting. We first became pen pals in the late 70's. We are cousins and share a passion for genealogy. My major project this year was helping Don get his book "The Captain and Thomasine" published. Will give you more details in later post.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Contemplate this!
It gets even more exciting when you consider that the earth is traveling around the sun at 60,000 mph, and the solar system is revolving around the galactic center at 568,000 mph. On top of that the Milky Way galaxy itself is traveling through space at 190 miles per second! So even when we are sitting still, we are anything but.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Carl Sagan
"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides." - Carl Sagan
Friday, August 10, 2012
You are the Product of 4 Billion Years of Evolution
YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF 4 BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION.
ACT LIKE IT
You have free will, use it.
You possess the most highly developed brain on the planet, take advantage of that.
You are the product of your ancestors greatest hopes and dreams, make them proud.
And do not forget that the next generation is looking to us for guidance, don't let them down.
ACT LIKE IT
You have free will, use it.
You possess the most highly developed brain on the planet, take advantage of that.
You are the product of your ancestors greatest hopes and dreams, make them proud.
And do not forget that the next generation is looking to us for guidance, don't let them down.
Monday, June 25, 2012
THE UNIVERSE NEIL DE GRASSE TYSON
What is the most astounding fact you
can share with us about the Universe?
The most astounding fact...
The most astounding fact is the knowledge
that the atoms that comprise life on Earth
the atoms that make up the human body
are traceable to the crucibles that cooked
light elements into heavy elements in their core
under extreme temperatures and pressures.
These stars, the high mass ones among them
went unstable in their later years
they collapsed and then exploded scattering
their enriched guts across the galaxy
guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself.
These ingredients become part of gas cloud
that condense, collapse, form...
the next generation of solar systems
stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have
the ingredients for life itself.
So that when I look up at the night sky
and I know that yes, we are part of this universe,
we are in this universe, but perhaps more important
than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us.
When I reflect on that fact, I look up
-- many people feel small 'cause they're small
and the Universe is big -- but I feel big,
because my atoms came from those stars.
There's a level of connectivity.
That's really what you want in life,
you want to feel connected,
you want to feel relevant
you want to feel like... a participant in the goings on
of activities and events around you.
That's precisely what we are,
just by being alive...
can share with us about the Universe?
The most astounding fact...
The most astounding fact is the knowledge
that the atoms that comprise life on Earth
the atoms that make up the human body
are traceable to the crucibles that cooked
light elements into heavy elements in their core
under extreme temperatures and pressures.
These stars, the high mass ones among them
went unstable in their later years
they collapsed and then exploded scattering
their enriched guts across the galaxy
guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself.
These ingredients become part of gas cloud
that condense, collapse, form...
the next generation of solar systems
stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have
the ingredients for life itself.
So that when I look up at the night sky
and I know that yes, we are part of this universe,
we are in this universe, but perhaps more important
than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us.
When I reflect on that fact, I look up
-- many people feel small 'cause they're small
and the Universe is big -- but I feel big,
because my atoms came from those stars.
There's a level of connectivity.
That's really what you want in life,
you want to feel connected,
you want to feel relevant
you want to feel like... a participant in the goings on
of activities and events around you.
That's precisely what we are,
just by being alive...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
My religious creed
If you are hungry, I will offer food,
If you are thirsty, I will offer water
If you are cold, I will offer warmth
If you are in need, ask and I will give
If you are in trouble, ask and I will help.
I do not do these things in the hopes of being
rewarded, or out of fear of being punished.
I do these things because I know them to be right.
I set my own standards and I alone enforce them.
If you are thirsty, I will offer water
If you are cold, I will offer warmth
If you are in need, ask and I will give
If you are in trouble, ask and I will help.
I do not do these things in the hopes of being
rewarded, or out of fear of being punished.
I do these things because I know them to be right.
I set my own standards and I alone enforce them.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
PRICELESS WORDS Abraham Lincoln and Galileo
When I do good, I
feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
FAVORITE POEM
The Chambered Nautilus
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
“This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign…”
Thisis the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sail the unshadowed main,–
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,–
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:–
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!
Friday, January 13, 2012
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