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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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. ~ Ernest Hemingway For as long as I can remember, I have loved cats. Their fur is soft as silk and they smell like stuffed animals. That is, they never carry the unpleasant odor
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I’m sorry, Gemma. But we can’t live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you. ~ Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty In the summer of 2022, I participated in a field trip to learn about fireflies, aka lightning bugs. My fellow students
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Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. ~Lauren DeStefano, Wither Shades of perspectives People have all kinds of reasons to love autumn. Some love the cool crisp air and the smell of the fallen
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People who are saying that they are afraid of heights are usually not actually afraid of heights. They are afraid of falling, which means it’s a synonym for losing control. So they have to get in touch with the definitional belief to find out what’s really going on. ~Bashar Usually I select quotes because they
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ~Vince Lombardi Little known buzz about bees Would it surprise you to hear that honey bees are not native to North America? Well, not unless you count that one bee fossil from 14 million years ago. Anyway, National Geographic’s Education
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One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find. ~ Criss Jami, Killosophy Words from 17 days ago If you read this on the day it is released, I will be returning from a trip planned, at least theoretically, more than three years ago. One of the locations on our itinerary has a
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The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. ~C. S. Lewis What’s the Inner RIng? The easiest way to answer would be to say it’s the title of an essay* delivered by C.S. Lewis at King’s College in 1944. In this case, the description does not address the meaning.
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Nature is never devoid of storms and our life’s nature is quite similar. Many storms gather, occur, and pass away in one lifetime. Sometimes one huge hurricane may tend to destroy everything in our lives, yet we should not fear the tempest. A storm comes to life like a lesson sometimes, when we have no
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To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough In a recent conversation I
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it. ~ L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl As long as we can reach into our brains and pull out a memory, we are always holding onto that person, place, or thing. Recall, though, from my post in February that every time you take out a
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If you cannot clothe yourself in the skin of a lion, put on that of a fox! Don Diego de la Vega aka Zorro If you are a Zorro fan, you may recognize the quote. While Don Diego’s advice may be interpreted in a number of ways, I’m going with this: if you can’t be
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Spiders are busy spinning webs in the grass, in the bushes, wherever there is prey to be caught… made of silken strands only a few millionths of an inch thick but stronger than steel. Structures that are pure beauty when jeweled with morning dewdrops. ~Hal Borland, Seasons, 1973 Before I began spending so much time with
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Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis Recently I requested responses to a poll that asked, “If you didn’t know how old you are how old would you be?” I got some interesting responses. The answers, incidentally, were more for the participants than for me. You know, just to get you [some
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“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.” ~ A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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This house has enough nooks and crannies for an English muffin. ~Kathy Bryson Yes, I’m well aware I write about food quite often. There’s the one on coffee and the one on grits, and on ice cream. I could go on, but this blog is all about thought, and I do think about food with
A rose by any other name: English muffins? Really? Read More »
We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content. ~Emile Zola Why is a glass of tea the focus of the featured image, but the quote has to do with books? Good question. Technically, this post is not
Does your tea look perfect? Does it matter? Read More »
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart In case you’re wondering about the image, one of my favorite ways to relax is blowing
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On this Independence Day, let us be grateful that we have such words and such examples to follow… that others were willing to sacrifice so much to create a land in which liberty and law can be protected. Let us not destroy our history. Let us learn from it by preserving and celebrating what was
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Never ask a woman who is eating ice cream straight from the carton how she’s doing.~ Nitya Prakash The topic of ice cream has come up a number of times in the past week. Of course, two of my grands were in town, and that might account for conversational bents. Before you start thinking this
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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld Sometimes I understand why hermits built shanties deep in the woods and disassociated themselves completely from information that might be disturbing. A few weeks ago I either heard or read that the order of food consumption can make a
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The quote today is the Free Dictionary’s definition of the phrase “one’s way out of a wet paper bag”: A phrase used to emphasize that one is particularly dimwitted, unintelligent, incompetent, or unable to do something basic, simple, or straightforward. It’s me. I can’t find my way out of anywhere I have to say I take exception to the above definition since I get lost quite easily. Perhaps I could, in fact, find my way
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