Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.” – Ella Leya
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The world is filled with wonderful people. Go say hi. Chances are good that you’ll find lifelong friends.
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous, and absolutely liberating.” – Eternal Arrival
“A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating… a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost as gone to hide.” – Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish.
At the heart of Guangzhou, one of China’s most modern cities, lies a hidden world — **Shipai Village**. Just steps away from luxury malls and skyscrapers, this tiny 0.73 km² maze houses over **100,000 residents**. Once a rural village, Shipai became a vertical labyrinth of “handshake buildings” — where walls almost touch and sunlight barely…
Anne Lamott’s quote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining,” and George Bernard Shaw’s observation that “if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a lighthouse” as a symbol of altruism.
“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment” by Margaret Mead, and “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now,”
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax
We're pretty sure that the stable genius isn't going to any thing about it, other than bark "drill baby drill." So it only makes sense that mother Europe will pick up the toys that you know who threw out of the pram. Just in case you haven't been paying attention, Solar energy is…
“It’s Niagara Falls. It’s one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn’t want to walk across it?” Nik Wallenda, a man famed for daredevil stunts, said this about Niagara Falls when asked why he wanted to walk across on a tightrope.
Over the past decade, research has profoundly reshaped our understanding of Neanderthals, moving from a view of them as unsophisticated “brutes” to a complex, closely related species with advanced cultural, social, and technological abilities, whose genetic legacy lives on in modern humans.
When it comes to the possibilities of ‘learning from history’ there are doubtless many things we could aspire to learn.
Some of those would be more practically useful, in terms of contributing to the normal and decent functioning of well-meaning societies than others.
. . .that is a dead set genius? A quantum leap. Oh, ha ha.
You might think that Australia is one of those places where the air is free, the skies are wide open and getting around is mostly by car. Maybe in some of the more remote places, that's probably be the…