“If you can’t do it with feeling—don’t.”
— Patsy Cline
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With Feeling
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on April 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Creative History
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, family, historic, history, markers, Thoughts on April 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
This one’s for my father, who would slow down family road trips by pulling over at every historical marker we passed.
How historical markers and monuments rewrite U.S. history : NPR
Over the past year, NPR analyzed a database crowdsourced by thousands of hobbyists, looking to uncover the patterns, errors and problems with the country’s markers. The effort revealed a fractured and often confused telling of the American story, where offensive lies live with impunity, history is distorted and errors are sometimes as funny as they are strange.
There are markers memorializing 14 ghosts, two witches, one vampire, a wizard and a couple who, a New Hampshire marker says, may have been abducted by aliens.
I did not know that these markers aren’t necessarily official. So if you stop at a marker, enjoy the fun of discovering new things, while remembering that they might not always be true.
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via fal.ai
Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait. What?
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, growing up bookish, libraries, Thoughts on April 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I had no idea that growing up in a library was an option. Here, something to watch while I question my family’s life choices;)
The Temple of Knowledge – YouTube
Ronald Clark’s father was custodian of a branch of the New York Public Library at a time when caretakers, along with their families, lived in the buildings. With his daughter, Jamilah, Ronald remembers literally growing up in a library, creeping down to the stacks in the middle of the night when curiosity gripped him. A story for anyone who’s ever dreamt of having unrestricted access to books.
— via The Kid Should See This
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The Prime Directive
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, philosophizing, purpose, Thoughts on April 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
— Dalai Lama
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Make Your Own Big Time
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, persistence, quoteandaprettypicture on April 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“You’ve got to make the big time where you are.”
— Matt Lynch, University of South Carolina Salkehatchie Men’s Basketball Coach
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The Most Precious Thing
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Thoughts on March 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“The more you are focused on time- past and future–the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” — Eckhart Tolle
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Here On Earth
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quoteandaprettypicture, Thoughts on March 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
— Muhammad Ali
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Open de Deur
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Europe, fish, nature on March 25, 2024| 2 Comments »
Three weeks ago I made a note in my calendar: “fish doorbell.”
What is it? A clever way for the people of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, to help migrating fish navigate the city’s Weerdsluis boat lock.
Every spring fish migrate upstream, in search of places to spawn. They swim through the centre of the city of Utrecht. Unfortunatly, the boat lock is closed during spring. You can help the fish.
Do you see a fish? Press the Doorbell!
I planned this post for March 1st but when I checked the feed, no fish were to be seen. I decided to wait a few days until the migration was well and truly underway but then… forgot.
Sorry fishies!
Thankfully, I saw a recent cartoon in The Guardian and remembered. Here’s the cartoon: Constant bad news doing your head in? Why not read about the fish doorbell instead.
Excellent idea. So excellent, in fact, that the livestream is often full. If you can’t press the doorbell, you can still watch the livestream or check out select archives at the Fish Doorbell News Report.
And please, little fishies. Do come in.
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Better Selves
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts on March 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
— Madonna Ciccone
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All-Domain Anomaly Resolution
Posted in Other, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, #socialmediaisanalienplotdevice, sorry not aliens, UAPs, UFOs on March 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
So it looks like Area 51 is not what popular culture thinks.
tl;dr sorry, no aliens
Read the Pentagon UFO report newly released by the Department of Defense
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” the report said.
The report also addresses claims that government and private companies are “reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology” and hiding it, noting that there is “no empirical evidence for claims” and that “claims involving specific people, known locations technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate.”
I guess this means social media isn’t an alien plot to get us to destroy ourselves? (At least, that’s what they want us to think;)
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