” … We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.” ~ Camille Paglia In my March post on honey and its creators, I mentioned I’d address hierarchies later, and now’s the time. Like it or not, there are social structures and organizational charts […]
Hierarchies. We all have at least one. Read More »
A list of things you might not hear: eyelash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear’s journey from eye to shoe, the air becoming blue, longing. ~ Martine Murray, How To Make A Bird In a February post,
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Are IQ tests sacrosanct? Or do you think there is only one kind of intelligence? What about creativity? Or intuitive or emotional intelligence? ~ Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit I can’t pinpoint the recent conversation that made me think about IQ (intelligence quotient) tests. However, it must have been with my husband, because he
Does Your IQ Soar? Do You Care? Read More »
Your mind never wanders away; it only moves towards more interesting things. ~ Kevin Horsley, Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive Oh, look – a squirrel! I do that all the time. Well, I don’t call attention to random squirrels, but I do occasionally fly
When your mind wanders, where does it go? Read More »
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays Once again I am exploring a well-established topic about which I know little. I did know that music can soothe the spirit, as described in my December 2022 post. However, I had no idea it
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We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. We swabbed ourselves in it to disinfect cuts or heal chapped lips. It went
Naturally sweet – a spoonful of honey Read More »
I’d tell anyone who wants to be a podcaster the same thing others have recommended – find a niche you’re passionate about and willing to be immersed in. ~ Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems Clearly, I can’t disagree with that. Anytime you choose a new endeavor, you increase your odds of success
What are you leaving when you go? Read More »
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. ~ G.K. Chesterton Well, the updated fairy tales read the way Chesterton described them, but they didn’t all start that way. There’s a dark side, or there was as the stories were
Fairy Tales, modified for the faint of heart Read More »
It’s smokin’, Pop! ~ Katherine Irwin My granddaughter, now 21, spoke those words as a precocious toddler when she observed our small-room humidifier doing what humidifiers are known for–spewing clouds of moisture. She may have expected a flame to shoot out next (where there’s smoke …), but no. We’ve all seen fiery, explosive crashes in
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Or is there? Read More »
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. ~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun Not really. We do hear other people, but when we hear ourselves, we listen differently because we are surprised by what we’re hearing. Lest you misunderstand, I’m referring to how you feel when you hear your own
What do you hear when you listen to yourself? Read More »
The fact is, for every one degree a plane gets off course, it will miss its targeted landing spot by 92 feet for every mile you fly. ~ Sam DiGiovanna Doesn’t sound like much if you don’t do the math. I did do the math, though. Let’s say I take a flight from McGhee Tyson
How critical are a few degrees here or there? Read More »
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well in the morning, you have to warm it up. ~ Florence Griffith Joyner Yeah, well, Florence. Some of our cars require more time to warm up, and sometimes they just refuse to start. Seriously, I take her point. I don’t know Ms.
What is muscle memory; do you know? Read More »
How would your life be different if …you walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day … you speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ~Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth and Being Free For as long as I can remember, gossiping has
Gossip? You talk like that’s a bad thing. Read More »
We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds. ~ Denis Hachey, A Mind to Mind Conversation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life I have touched on the power of the brain in other posts, but not on this aspect, I think. Do we limit ourselves by what we think we can’t
Does your mind propel you or ground you? Read More »
No matter how you slice it, there will always be two sides. Spinoza In the past two months, I’ve enjoyed hosting a fair number of dinner guests. That means I have read and executed many recipes. At least half a dozen of them were for meat dishes and a few provided directions on carving. I
Any way you slice it, it’s all the same. Really? Read More »
“…failure with clay was more complete and more spectacular than with other forms of art. You are subject to the elements… Any one of the old four – earth, air, fire, water – can betray you and melt, or burst, or shatter – months of work into dust and ashes and spitting steam. You need
Throwing, shaping, firing, Creating. Pottery Read More »
The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time. ~John Locke Well, I guess I’m on the path to great learning because there are some topics about which I am learning only a little at a time. With those, I am absolutely thick-headed and I make no apologies for it. I
Silly topics that challenge my understanding Read More »
We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them. ~Hillary DePiano The post from 12-28-23 addressed figuring out what’s important and weeding out the activities that don’t make the cut. This one is similar but deals with things we’ve always done, at least as far as we
New Year traditions. Keep ’em or kick ’em? Read More »
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. ~ Anne Lamott Like some of you, dear readers, I find it incredibly simple to solve other people’s time management issues. Feeling stressed because you’ve over-committed? You’d prefer to resign from the executive board of the Blah, Blah, Blah group,
Want a restart? SLOW DOWN. UNPLUG. Read More »
She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but
A CENTURIES-Old Skill – is quilting still a thing? Read More »
I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing. ~ D.D. Barant, Dying Bites I would say that the above
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Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end. ~ John Muir Mr. Muir was actively involved in environmental causes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All told, he spent
The hair of the dog; a prescription for our forests Read More »
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
In a rush? The heart racing kind? Read More »
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
Gratitude, Freely Given, is the Best Gift Read More »