Words To Live By: “The True Sign of Intellegence …”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein
~ Words To Live By: “Eyes Blinded By The Fog Of Things …”
“Eyes blinded by the fog of Things cannot see Truth. Ears deafened by the din of Things cannot hear Truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of Things cannot think Truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of Things cannot feel Truth. Throats choked by the dust of Things cannot speak Truth.” ~~ Harold Bell Wright, […]
The Bluebird of Happiness — Do We Forget About The One In-Hand?
Have we raised our expectations for what will make us happy to unreasonable heights? I wonder. Too often it seems as if we are striving and searching for a bigger, better kind of happiness. And always more, of course. It’s as if we are determined to prove that when it comes to the Bluebird of […]
BTSN Reviews: KISS CHRONICLES by Virginia Sanders
I love personal journeys and people brave enough to share them. And, in KISS CHRONICLES, author Virginia M. Sanders doesn’t hold back. Frequently humorous and occasionally raw, her emotions are always real. First kisses and cancer are an intriguing combination. Both are prepackaged emotional triggers, but, usually on opposite sides of our emotional spectrums. We […]
~ Words To Live By: “Once You See It …”
“… once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.” ~~ Arundhati Roy
~ What About West, Texas?
My heart breaks for the community of West, Texas. While the media endlessly looped their limited information on the manhunt of the remaining Boston Bombing suspect to the exclusion of all else on Friday, I kept thinking — what about the explosion in West, Texas? What’s happening there? How is that small rural town coping […]
~ For The Joy of Animals: Hummie Cam (Baby Hummies Soon)
Spring is in the air and I’ve been celebrating the season of renewal by going over to Melissa Crytzer Fry’s What I Saw… blog and watching her Hummie Cam. She set a camera up to record the hummingbird nest in her breezeway. Melissa graciously allowed me to share a couple of awesome images her Hummie Cam […]
~ Words To Live By: “The Secret of Change …”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~~ Socrates
~ A Humble Thank You To Women Writers
In honor of Women’s History Month, a humble thank you to the many amazing women writers and the characters they created who inspired my dreams, impacted my life and shaped my future through the use of storytelling.
~ Words To Live By: “The Duty of Criticism”
“The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate.” ~~ Samuel Johnson, The Rambler #93, February 5, 1751
~ The Story of How Young Jack Used Google to Change Cancer Detection
I’m a bit of a TED Talks junky, so I frequently listen to people that are inspiring, thought-provoking and passionately engaged. But I can honestly say that none has made me quite as optimistic about the future as did the story of how young Jack Andraka used Google to change cancer detection. From the first moment I watched […]
~ Join One Billion Rising to “Break the Chain”
Join a global flash mob on Valentine’s Day and dance to “BREAK THE CHAIN” to end violence against women. “202 countries and territories are participating–nearly every country on the planet” Who: Women, Children — and Men What: Global Flash Mob (Dance) to “Break the Chain” (video below) When: 1:00pm Thursday, Febuary 14th (not all flash mobs […]
~ Seeing Things In A New Light: Windless Kite Festival
A Windless Kite Festival (An oxymoron, if there ever was one.) Held indoors (Of course, where else do you fly a kite.) In January (Any other month every sane person would outside flying their kite — in the wind!) An annual event celebrating its 12th year in 2013 (It’s a joke. Right? What could there […]
~ Words To Live By: “An Unquenchable Spirit Of Adventure…”
“There is no experience from which you can’t learn something. When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense. And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. You can do […]
~ Merry Merry Up-Side-Down Christmas
I originally posted this in 2010, but it still makes me smile. So here it is: I clearly remember going into gales of laughter as a child when seeing anyone talk while up-side-down. Chin talking is what they call it now. I don’t think we had a name for it then. And I don’t remember […]
