Every person on this planet needs love, dignity, and purpose.
— Rich Paul
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“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
— John Wooden
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From the same stash of childhood ephemera as the Great Green Dragon, I give you a haiku on the theme of the moon.
O Mistress, come see!
What is this caught in the net
Of the cherry tree?
— Jenny J.
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
― Charles Dickens
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Christmas Eve, when Santa is racing around the world distributing presents, seems like an excellent time to think back to the experience of the holiday as a young child. If Christmas was part of your family tradition, do you remember what it was like to believe in Santa Claus?
I do, and despite the ever-present pressures of reality, that sense of wonder is part of why I write.
Making Sense of Santa, as a Science Reporter and a Parent ‹ Literary Hub
“When I was a kid, did you try to get me to believe in Santa?” I recently asked my parents. My father, a mathematician, scoffed. “Of course not,” he said. “We told you he was a mythological being that represented generosity and good cheer.”
Still, every December, my mother hung stockings above the chimney with care. And every Christmas Eve, she made sure cookies were left on a festively decorated plate, as though she truly believed St. Nick would soon be there.
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I spent a lot of time as a kid learning skills that were technically unnecessary for me, but would have been essential to my ancestors. Skills like weaving, making cough syrup or dyeing wool using local herbs, flint knapping, bow making, that sort of thing (yes, my parents were very tolerant!). One of the skills I never did manage (and I bet the local fire department was grateful) was making a fire using only friction.
If you’ve seen Tom Hanks try this in Castaway, you’ll know that it isn’t as easy as it looks.
If this is the sort of thing that catches your attention, as it does mine, this article might interest you.
Fire by friction is a testament to human ingenuity, contributing to the development of early technology and a later understanding of physics, chemistry and heat transfer.
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“My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art.”
— Taylor Swift
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“You need to drop glass on the floor, get the burns, all those things. The real practice is in all the pieces that didn’t make it, the cliched blood, sweat and tears. You can’t know the limits of something unless you’ve failed.”
— Will Shakspeare, artisan glassblower
And you can still make something beautiful along the way.
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If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to be someone else, either because you need background for a character or because some days, daydreaming about a different life is all that’s standing between you and a very impolitic email to your boss, this podcast may interest you!
Curious what it would be like to walk in someone else’s (work) shoes? Join New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath as he explores the world of work, one profession at a time, and interviews people who love what they do. What does a couples therapist think when a friend asks for relationship advice? What happens if a welder fails to wear safety glasses? What can get a stadium beer vendor fired? If you’ve ever met someone whose work you were curious about, and you had 100 nosy questions but were too polite to ask … well, this is the show for you.
Today’s episode? What it’s like to be A Professional Santa Claus.
You know you want to know!
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Oh look, NASA just sent the first Ultra-HD video through deep space using a laser communications system.
NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser
Me: Cool cool cool. It’s a test, right?
Other Me: That’s right.
Me: So this experiment marks the progress humanity has made in reaching out to the stars. I wonder which video NASA used?
Other Me: This one. I think it perfectly encapsulates the usefulness of laser technology in general, and where we are as a species right now in particular.
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