In 1932 L. P. Jacks said,

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well.

In 1967 Rod Serling said,

“I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

“In almost everything I’ve written there is a thread of this: a man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

You get the idea.

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Tony Bennett with Piers Morgan, while I’m typing:

“What a gift it is to be alive… we should cherish each other… we only have one quick life… maybe a hundred years… we should realize what a gift it to be alive…

“America? It’s a mix of everybody, all religions, so many beliefs, that’s the best thing about America… we should realize that.”

America? That’s why the lady is a tramp ??

slog is a true skill

What are we spending?

You tell me where money goes.
This is 100 years of America’s budget.
This is what we buy.

What's cheap food?

Is it true “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home?”

NY Times asks, “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?”

This is your brain on error.

Reality exists independent of human minds, but our understanding of it depends on the beliefs we hold at any given time.

Michael Shermer at Scientific American:

1. We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, emotional and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture and society at large.
2. After forming our beliefs, we then defend, justify and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments and rational explanations.
3. Beliefs come first; explanations for beliefs follow.

According to Shermer, we reinforce bias.

Had we not suppressed drugs?

According to Komisaruk, learning to better understand and control the part of the brain that produces pleasurable sensations could make a difference in the treatment of depression, anxiety, addiction or even obesity.

Related to bacteria. …kinda makes birth records and ancestry seem comic.

Bullets and ammo we need to see.

Sculptor Al Farrow creates ‘Reliquaries‘.

Religious sites built from ammunition and firearms.

That’s appropriate.

If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you have money in the bank, your wallet and some spare change, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the one million people who will not survive this week. If you never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation, you are luckier than 500 million people alive and suffering. If you can read this message, you are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world who cannot read it at all.

Think fake.

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“If only Google knew what Google knows.”

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Superb video of swing.

The Jive Aces present: Bring Me Sunshine

Irrefutable importance of lack.

“Man is the animal that believes something is wrong,” offers the theosophist Richard Smoley.

As online snippets seek to explain all things…