You hear about adrenaline, how it spurs you on and gives you uncanny strength, but there’s a flip side. The feeling is heady, out of control. It heightens your senses to the point of paralysis. You have to harness the power or it’ll choke you down. ~ Harlan Coben, Tell No One I have never been […]
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ~ Epicurus How very true. I have heard a number of high-profile personalities state that you should compare yourself only to who you were yesterday, not to anyone
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There are very few things in the world I hate more than Daylight Savings Time. It is the grand lie of time, the scourge of science, the blight on biological understanding. ~ Michelle Franklin Ms. Franklin is so angry she added an ‘s’ where it didn’t belong. Most of us do. It’s just one more thing
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Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all. ~Charles Fort Dowsing tools have ranged from forked sticks to bent wires
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We cannot live in a world where the Monarch Butterfly does not exist. Period. ~ Tarisa Parrish, The Adventures of Johnny Butterflyseed As with many other topics I attempt to address, I knew little about butterflies before I began research for this post. However, I did have one experience with another GSMNP volunteer, Mark Weingartz, when I
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