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Creative and Curious
Great achievements once considered impossible are being accomplished with the help of other people (and today, with other forms of intelligence).
10-JUN
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Category Archives: Urban
06-JUN
Growth
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, or modestly.
Mao Tse-tung
Time For A Populist Revolution. Urban radicals favor equality, and rural traditionalists favor liberty, but economic pressure on both the right & left is what the oligarchs want.
04-JUN
Anemometer
Tells a lot about wind direction.
per·am·bu·late (verb)
- formal • humorous – travel through or around a place in a leisurely way. “With great pleasure she perambulated the square.”
- historical • British – walk around (a parish, forest, etc) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries.
10-MAY
05-MAY
Mt. Umunhum
At the top of the mountain, we get to soak in the view.
03-MAY
Cosmic Influence
You will see change taking place no matter where you look.
Think of it as a mind expanding message from the stars, maybe not the work of human beings.
Note: On the X platform you can change the playback speed from one quarter to twice as fast.
27-APR
School
Long ago, during the last age of reason, certain proud thinkers had claimed that valid knowledge was indestructible – that ideas were deathless and truth immortal.
But that was true only in the subtlest sense, and not superficially true at all.
There was objective meaning in the world, to be sure: the non-moral logos or design of the Creator; but such meanings were God’s and not Man’s, until they found an imperfect incarnation, a dark reflection, within the mind & speech & culture of a given human society, which might ascribe values to the meanings so that they became valid in a human sense within the culture.
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter Miller
26-APR
Summertime
“It is a long time since my last visit,” said Dumbledore, peering down his crooked nose at Uncle Vernon. “I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K.Rowling