Humani nihil alienum

 

https://humanists.uk/

"Life is after all a chain"

 

Never knew that's what Agnew's name meant

 

While I breathe, I hope 

The people’s house

FDR Memorial, Washington DC.

Trump Ballroom

"Prine radiates a sense of well-being..."

Just do it

Doomed (and yet, still laughing)

Shohei

Travel is broadening

More “magnificent desolation”

NASA releases clearest footage of Mars yet. 140 million miles away…

Avg temperature: minus-85 Fahrenheit. Go for it, Elon!

https://www.threads.com/@curiositydeepspace/post/DPwMVxYiQFx?xmt=AQF0xzpuMTEzJwieZG2fz2eqBF1zkEDdvD5K_WJA0oB6KA&slof=1

In our time

https://www.threads.com/@stephanpastis/post/DPxUXfECeK5?xmt=AQF0_PvxumMxRqmyJbJ4ts0bgPeNs7aLrhuey5RVpsjs7A&slof=1

Sorted

Writing holds water

The ❤️ of Dog

"It came to me that every time I lose a dog, they take a piece of my heart with them and every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog and I will become as generous and loving as they are". - Diane Keaton 🩶

https://www.threads.com/@janecataniastylist/post/DPsfms1k0NK?xmt=AQF0z1IlFvN81F7-m7Rn8idYWV0DIKzNOPib0uGO6VXxvg&slof=1

(also remembering what Annie Hall said about her Great Dane…)

Think like a dog?

"Dogs don't dwell on the past or stress about the future. They don't expect the worst, become filled with regret, or exaggerate the consequences of their actions. They live in the moment. Here's what happens when we think more like our canine friends."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-minute-therapist/202509/think-like-a-dog

For humans, though, some moments are capacious enough to include thought of past and future. They have their place, and their point.So have the moments of pure presence. Thinking the right thoughts at the right time (and knowing when to stop thinking): that's the challenge.

Accountancy

Adding It Up

by Philip Booth

My mind's eye opens before
the light gets up. I
lie awake in the small dark,
figuring payments, or how
to scrape paint; I count
rich women I didn't marry.
I measure bicycle miles
I pedaled last Thursday
to take off weight; I give some
passing thought to the point
that if I hadn't turned poet
I might well be some other
sort of accountant. Before
the sun reports its own weather
my mind is openly at it:
I chart my annual rainfall.
or how I'll plant seed if
I live to be fifty. I look up
words like "bilateral symmetry"
in my mind's dictionary; I consider
the bivalve mollusc, re-pick
last summer's mussels on Condon Point,
preview the next red tide, and
hold my breath: I listen hard
to how my heart valves are doing.
I try not to get going
too early: bladder permitting,
I mean to stay in bed until six;
I think in spirals, building
horizon pyramids, yielding to
no man's flag but my own.
I think of Saul Steinberg:
I play touch football on one leg,
I seesaw on the old cliff, trying 
to balance things out: job,
wife, children, myself.
My mind's eye opens before
my body is ready for its
first duty: cleaning up after
an old-maid Basset in heat.
That, too, I inventory:
the Puritan strain will out,
even at six a.m.; sun or no sun,
I'm Puritan to the bone, down to
the marrow and then some:
if I'm not sorry I worry,
if I can't worry I count.

"Adding It Up" by Philip Booth from Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999. © Viking Penguin, 2000. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)

https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2008%252F10%252F08.html

A doze

Why is Snoopy smiling?

Don't worry

 

%s

Pearls before swine
https://www.threads.com/@stephanpastis/post/DPUM2THiUUE?xmt=AQF0eSpxmHgQkGntSJmWXRZXltwKblnmhjFS_ac8lqk3xg&slof=1

“Baseball suits the character of this democratic nation”

Or used to.

George Will, Ken Burns

https://www.threads.com/@kenburnspbs/post/DPTtiKTiEKX?xmt=AQF0zia1L2WYd3hYIi0U7RxDBdg8zx-HCZGouGunHeTuLw&slof=1