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1. The 21 Best Fantasy Book Series
Meme: Bold the ones you've read all of, italicize the one's you've read part of..
( listing of top 21 sci-fi fantasy series )
2. I've been listening to Country Music channels on my Apple Music Streaming Service at work, everything from Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard to Hank Williams. ( Read more... )
3. Well, this would explain a lot...for me at least... Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
( excerpt )
Eh, not so sure about the third option -- imagining I'm someone else?
4. The Age of Envy - How to Be Happy When Everyone Else's Life Looks Perfect
[Stop looking at Facebook or better yet? Get on a fanboard on FB that doesn't permit any of that crap. Honestly, I think we are bombarded with information about what we should have to be happy -- when the truth is that you really don't need anything at all to be happy. It's a state of mind or being that has very little to do with external items. There are folks with all the external stuff who are miserable and depressed..I feel song coming on...oh yes, Gershwin, Porgy and Bess..."I got plenty of nuthin'"]
5. "The Poem - After Silence by Rachel Carson is Read by Amanda Palmer"
Go listen to her read it. Poems should be heard not read. Like songs. You need to hear the cadence, to understand them. That's why Shakespeare makes more sense when seen and heard than read. Otherwise you lose the rhythm and beat and sound of the language, which has a meaning all its own.
( the words of the poem )
6. ( personal life update on apartment, etc. )
7. A Visual History of the American Public Library
It surprised me. I was expecting an article or a chart.
8. How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science
The gist? You can be a scientist and believe in God at the same time. (Which I already knew -- since from my perspective the Universe is basically God.)
( excerpt )
Meme: Bold the ones you've read all of, italicize the one's you've read part of..
( listing of top 21 sci-fi fantasy series )
2. I've been listening to Country Music channels on my Apple Music Streaming Service at work, everything from Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard to Hank Williams. ( Read more... )
3. Well, this would explain a lot...for me at least... Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
( excerpt )
Eh, not so sure about the third option -- imagining I'm someone else?
4. The Age of Envy - How to Be Happy When Everyone Else's Life Looks Perfect
[Stop looking at Facebook or better yet? Get on a fanboard on FB that doesn't permit any of that crap. Honestly, I think we are bombarded with information about what we should have to be happy -- when the truth is that you really don't need anything at all to be happy. It's a state of mind or being that has very little to do with external items. There are folks with all the external stuff who are miserable and depressed..I feel song coming on...oh yes, Gershwin, Porgy and Bess..."I got plenty of nuthin'"]
5. "The Poem - After Silence by Rachel Carson is Read by Amanda Palmer"
Go listen to her read it. Poems should be heard not read. Like songs. You need to hear the cadence, to understand them. That's why Shakespeare makes more sense when seen and heard than read. Otherwise you lose the rhythm and beat and sound of the language, which has a meaning all its own.
( the words of the poem )
6. ( personal life update on apartment, etc. )
7. A Visual History of the American Public Library
It surprised me. I was expecting an article or a chart.
8. How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science
The gist? You can be a scientist and believe in God at the same time. (Which I already knew -- since from my perspective the Universe is basically God.)
( excerpt )