A place for old featured corners

Featured Corner

This corner will be changed every so often to feature something new.


"On the whole I have received better treatment in life than the average man and more loving kindness than I perhaps deserved - Frank Harris, in Anthony Bourdain's Meduium Raw


"One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds." - Burroughs


We need a wilderness
Whether or not we ever set foot in it
We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.
We need the possibility of an as escape as surely as we need hope.
-Edward Abbey


"Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

-Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, p 36


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9x - 7i > 3 (3x - 7u)

Solve the inequality for a message.

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What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang



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Old Description of Blog:

A collecting place for things I´m seeing,learning, reading, and experiencing. For whoever might be interested.

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"You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world."
Woodrow Wilson

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"Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now."

-from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway

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"Ïf such a world literature should take shape in the near future, as will be inevitable with the continually increasing speed of communication, we may expect of it nothing more and nothing less than what it can accomplish and does indeed accomplish. The wide world, as large as it is, is still only an extended homeland and strictly speaking will give us no more than what our native soil also brought forth....Certainly there are people everywhere who care about what has been established and hence are concerned aobut the true progress of mankind.¨

-Goethe, in a memorandum written in March 1830

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"Spirit is a peak experience, a memorable moment when one is aligned with the cosmic order, when body and mind are one. Rock climbers, skiers, kayakers, cyclists, runners -- all discover euphoria when their minds and bodies are in sync with the pulse of the world. Balance, agility, timing, awareness, all peak in a flash of inspiration -- a clarifying moment."

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"The perennial problem of adolescents is: " What do you say to her (him) then?" And to many people besides adolescents nothing is more uncomfortable than a social hiatus, a period of silent, unstructured time when no on this existential sense, the function of all social living is to lend mutual assistance for this project."

-Games People Play by Eric Berne