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QotD: Eagles Don't Flock
Eagles don't flock.
You have to find them one at a time.
--Ross Perot 1930-2019
You have to find them one at a time.
--Ross Perot 1930-2019
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Poem: Let there be spaces in your togetherness
Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
- Kahlil Gibran
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
- Kahlil Gibran
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QotD: Ideas Don't Die
"You can kill a man,
but you can't kill an idea."
--Medgar Evers before his own assasination
but you can't kill an idea."
--Medgar Evers before his own assasination
QotD: Do It Your Way (Teacher doesn't always know best.)
His work has been far from satisfactory... he will not listen, but will insist on doing his work in his own way... I believe he has ideas about becoming a Scientist; on his present showing this is quite ridiculous, if he can't learn simple Biological facts he would have no chance of doing the work of a Specialist, and it would be a sheer waste of time on his part, and of those who have to teach him.
--a college professor, on the report card of Sir John B. Gurdon, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his revolutionary research on stem cells
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- activism,
- authenticity,
- goals,
- independence,
- inspiration,
- job,
- joy,
- legacy,
- life,
- mission statement,
- motivation,
- quotes,
- values,
- work,
- world
QotD: What the World Needs
Don't ask what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.
--Howard Thurman, civil rights leader
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.
--Howard Thurman, civil rights leader
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- fire,
- independence,
- lists,
- mistakes,
- peace,
- quotes,
- security,
- survival,
- wilderness,
- women
QotD: Security and Regrets
The only real security is ...
the ability to build your own fires
and find your own peace ...
What we most regret
are not the errors we make,
but the things we didn't do.
--Audrey Sutherland
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Oregon is Officially a Three Party State!
This state is so delightfully progressive it curls my toes. Much as I liked Kitzhaber, I think I am going to like our new governor Kate Brown more! She was sworn in yesterday. On Monday this week (when she was still Secretary of State) she made the announcement that the Independent Party of Oregon qualifies to be a MAJOR PARTY claiming as members more than 5% of registered voters as of the 2014 gubernatorial election. The total membership of the Independent Party as of 2/2/15 was 108,742, which is three voters over the minimum to become a major party. I suspect that with the publicity incurred by this landmark change, more people will change their voter registration from Dem or Rep to INDY.
SOURCES
http://www.indparty.com/node/25
http://time.com/3709837/oregon-kate-brown-governor/
SOURCES
http://www.indparty.com/node/25
http://time.com/3709837/oregon-kate-brown-governor/
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QotD: Freedom
People demand freedom of speech
as a compensation for
the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.
-Kirkegaard
as a compensation for
the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.
-Kirkegaard
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Radiation: Nothing to Worry About
I don't believe the powers when they tell me to panic. And I definitely don't believe them when they tell me NOT to panic. I think back to 9/11, when all those people in burning skyscrapers, just hit by airplanes, were told to remain calm and stay at their desks. The ones who decided for themselves that the situation was fubar and ran down the stairs were the ones who survived.
For this Japanese quake and tsunami the media machine has been spewing something constantly. Panic. Don't panic. Nothing to worry about. All under control. Oooops, out of control. Whoopsie.
It's up to us to decide what to do for ourselves.
Japan reportedly to rate nuclear crisis at highest level
By Chico Harlan, Monday, April 11, 9:30 PM
TOKYO — Japanese authorities planned Tuesday to raise their rating of the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the highest level on an international scale, equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to the Kyodo news agency.
A level 7 accident, according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, is typified by a “major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-to-raise-rating-of-nuclear-crisis-to-highest-level/2011/04/11/AFxrFEND_story.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert
For this Japanese quake and tsunami the media machine has been spewing something constantly. Panic. Don't panic. Nothing to worry about. All under control. Oooops, out of control. Whoopsie.
It's up to us to decide what to do for ourselves.
Japan reportedly to rate nuclear crisis at highest level
By Chico Harlan, Monday, April 11, 9:30 PM
TOKYO — Japanese authorities planned Tuesday to raise their rating of the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the highest level on an international scale, equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to the Kyodo news agency.
A level 7 accident, according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, is typified by a “major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-to-raise-rating-of-nuclear-crisis-to-highest-level/2011/04/11/AFxrFEND_story.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert
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- diet,
- goals,
- independence,
- morality,
- quotes,
- resolutions,
- values,
- wealth,
- women,
- work
Resolutions that Tolstoy Didn't Keep
Excerpted from Tolstoy's "Rules of Life" written when he was 18 years old:
· Get up early (five o’clock)
· Go to bed early (nine to ten o’clock)
· Eat little and avoid sweets
· Try to do everything by yourself
· Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater
· Keep away from women
· Kill desire by work
· Be good, but try to let no one know it
· Always live less expensively than you might
· Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer
· Get up early (five o’clock)
· Go to bed early (nine to ten o’clock)
· Eat little and avoid sweets
· Try to do everything by yourself
· Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater
· Keep away from women
· Kill desire by work
· Be good, but try to let no one know it
· Always live less expensively than you might
· Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer
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QotD: the Canoe
The first thing you must learn about canoeing is that the canoe is not
a lifeless, inanimate object: it feels very much alive, alive with the life of the river.
Life is transmitted to the canoe by currents of air and the water upon which it
rides. The behavior and temperament of a canoe is dependent upon the elements:
from the slightest breeze to a raging storm, from the smallest ripple to a towering
wave, or from a meandering stream to a thundering rapid. Anyone can handle a
canoe in a quiet millpond, but in rapids a canoe is like a wild stallion. It must be
kept on a tight rein. The canoeist must take the canoe where he or she wants it to
go, not where it wants to go. Given the chance, the canoe will dump you
overboard and continue on down the river by itself.
--Bill Mason
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Quotes otD: Success, and Justice
Being successful doesn't make us happy. But being happy (having
good relationships, good autonomy, doing something meaningful) is
more likely to make us successful.
--Sonia Simone
Justice is what love looks like when it speaks out in public.
--Bill Sinkford
good relationships, good autonomy, doing something meaningful) is
more likely to make us successful.
--Sonia Simone
Justice is what love looks like when it speaks out in public.
--Bill Sinkford
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In Praise of Non-conformity
In Praise of Non-conformity
Why doing what we are told is so often a poor idea
http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/in-praise-of-non-conformity/
Posted on 17 June 2009 by Carmine Coyote
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Why doing what we are told is so often a poor idea
http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/in-praise-of-non-conformity/
Posted on 17 June 2009 by Carmine Coyote
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backpacking list and ruminations: full moon zig zag
ZigZag weather: partly cloudy, chance of rain whole time
nights in the 40's, days in the 60-70's
( what goes in the pack when you haven't gone in 15 years )
nights in the 40's, days in the 60-70's
( what goes in the pack when you haven't gone in 15 years )
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The Declaration of Independence
How long has it been since you read it, or had it read to you? It can be inspirational.
Here's a copy: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
The last paragraph:
Here's a copy: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
The last paragraph:
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.