“…the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.”
― Caitlin Moran
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Posts Tagged ‘quotes’
Trite? Maybe. Still True.
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, kindness, quotes on June 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »
A Trip Downstream
Posted in Entertainment, Likes, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, environment, fun, geography, interactive, maps, quotes, USGS on May 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Oh, this is fun. If you have a little map, environment and/or geography geek streak, check out this interactive:
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“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
― Wendell Berry
When a raindrop falls, where does it go? If it falls on my hometown, it flows 390km to the Atlantic Ocean.
If it falls on the Denver Broncos’ Mile High 50-yard line, just east of the Continental Divide, the path to the Gulf of Mexico is 3862km!
Click a starting point and the site will calculate a route and then do a visual fly-over. I wish it covered places outside the US but it’s still a fun and impressive window into data from the always excellent USGS.*
* Ah, the USGS, font of so much maptitude! Wait, is that a volcano webcam? Stop browsing, woman, you have work to do! But remind me to tell you my volcano story someday:)
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As You Like
Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, fun, quotes on May 26, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
— Katharine Hepburn
And Isn’t that Actually Kind of Nice?
Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, life, quotes, some days are just like that on May 20, 2021| 1 Comment »
“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
— Albert Einstein
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Sun Day
Posted in Likes, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, happiness, in spite of everything, quotes, Sunday on May 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.”
― Hank Green
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What Would You Do?
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, Affinity Photo, Jodi Taylor, learning, quotes, time travel on May 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »
What would you do if you could go back in time for, say, one day? When would you go, and perhaps just as importantly, where?
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For today’s educational adventure I learned how to make a portal. Next time I’ll choose an image with a puddle for the reflection, but the effect is still pretty magic.
So, we have a target place, a target time, and a portal. Who wants to go first?
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Fiction-related aside: Time travel usually isn’t my genre (weird for someone with a history degree once upon a time, but there it is), but this series about historians tasked with maintaining the time stream is fun:
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“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.
Getting Past Ugh
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, advice, Motivation, quotes on April 24, 2021| 1 Comment »
I ran across this bit of text and don’t remember its origins. I *think* I wrote it as a summary after watching one of Carol Dweck’s TED talks on learning and the growth mindset, but I can’t be sure (apologies if I missed the author). Still seems like good advice.
A motivation problem is solved by thinking (convincing yourself that something is important). A follow-through problem is solved by not thinking (don’t deliberate, just act).
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What Matters
Posted in Likes, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, quotes, Walt Whitman on April 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“Those who love each other shall become invincible.”
— Walt Whitman
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Time to Get Cracking
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, ideas, Motivation, projects, quotes, Spring, work on April 8, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy
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If only it were that simple!
Photos by Gabriel Jimenez, Markus Spiske, Tobias Stonjeck
Precious Things
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, books, Louis L'Amour, quotes on April 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
— Louis L’Amour
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