№ 289. Solar Freakin Roadways

Ok, this looks promising enough. Thanks for the heads up Upworthy.

 

№ 288. Questions about Power

"Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it."

Thomas Jefferson

№ 287. Winter is Coming

The Specter of the Dark Ages

№ 286. Axe

Todai-ji Main Gate, Nara, Japan

Todai-ji Museum

№ 285. Friday Dipped in Poetry 2

It is the moment when you can look back on your life so far and see it with different eyes. Hopefully you’ve built up some wisdom, which, as the psychologists define it, means seeing the world with more compassion, grasping opposing ideas at the same time, tolerating ambiguity and reacting with equanimity to the small setbacks of life.

№ 284. Friday Dipped in Poetry

“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”  ― Charles Simic

The Meaning of Life

№ 283. Reading for Wisdom and Folly

"Deep reading cuts into your soul and shapes you like real life experiences. Few of us have deep experiences but we can all read about them and thereby experience them; in my view better—with the wisdom of those who actually lived them and the luxury of reflection."

№ 282. Tradition and Prejudice

"The bird that would soar above the level of plain tradition and prejudice must have strong wings."

Kate Chopin

I watched Michelle Obama (FLOTUS) speak at the Democratic National Convention. Inspired, inspiring and hopeful! Just what the world needs, just about...now.