A Trumpet Solo

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course, is a very common phenomenon.  There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is.  With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
—    Albert Einstein
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On This Day In:
2015	Potential Is A Heavy Burden
2014	Fear Not, Weep Not
2013	Half Way There
2012	Sacrificed Any Lately?
2011	The Value Of One’s Character
2010	Intervals
	On Being Human
	Non-predictive Emergence
	Events
	Bodily Functions
	Standing Thoughts
	Sent Home Is Better Than Fixed

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Maybe Someday

A cultured person is one who can entertain himself, entertain others, and entertain ideas.
—    Peter Lawrence
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On This Day In:
2015	How’s The Cow?
2014	Mind Made Up
2013	On Purpose
2012	The Dream
2011	What Could Be More Comfortable?

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Chains Of Habit

The chains of habit are too weak too be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
—    Samuel Johnson
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On This Day In:
2015	That You Shall Remain
	Did You See That?
2014	True, Vibrant And Open
2013	Remembering, Yet Again
2012	Something Of Value
2011	Sleep All Day

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More Lives

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read…  It is not true that we have only one life to live;  if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
—    S. I. Hayakawa
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On This Day In:
2015	Go Shopping More
2014	Say What?
2013	Accepting Beauty
2012	Transitional Choice To Ride The Wave
2011	Freedom Isn’t Always Perfect
	Just That Simple

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Mostly Just Masticating

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
—    Edmund Burke
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On This Day In:
2015	Don’t Mess With Mosa
	How Long Is This Run?
2014	The Importance Of Being Forgetful
2013	Anyway
2012	Habit Forming
2011	And In The Other Hand(ful)
	In Love With Words
	Boundless Naïveté
	Who Did You Say Signed Off On This Treason, Pat?

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Hard Learners

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
—    Aldous Huxley
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On This Day In:
2015	Goals
2014	Switch To Dogs…
2013	Times Change
2012	Ashes Not Dust
2011	A Handful From Saudi
	None Of This Happened
	Take Responsibility

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As Close As They Can Get

Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth.  Science is a mechanism.  It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature.  It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.  And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life.  I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it.
—   Isaac Asimov
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On This Day In:
2015	And So I Blog
2014	Take Flight
2013	Contributing Joy
2012	More Than A Race
2011	Institutionalized Leadership

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Fragile And Explosive, Provocation And Privacy

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face…  It is one of the havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
—    Edward P. Morgan
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On This Day In:
2015	Bound Up
2014	Economic Engines
2013	Weren’t You Supposed To Be Reading?
	Absent Friends
	Where I Stand
2012	Hangin’ With His P’s
	Help Save
2011	Six Facets Of Good Leadership

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Kept

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
—   Joseph Joubert
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On This Day In:
2015	Envy * 2
2014	Destiny For The Talented
2013	I Do Not Fear It
2012	Until Found
2011	Reducing Goods To Data
	The Fog Of Civilization Building

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Cast Out

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind;
and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
—    Proverbs: 11:29
King James Bible
[If our house (civilization) is built on technology and science and we seek to enforce faith and religion on any or all, we shall inherit the wind.  Similarly, if we base our house (morality) on technology and science and seek to strip faith and religion from any or all, we will eventually come to view others in a cost / benefits analysis and we too shall inherit the wind.  There is a middle ground.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2015	Small Pieces
	Happy Father’s Day!
2014	Uncertain Work
2013	Unpatriotic And Servile
2012	What Price Freedom?
2011	Particular Importance
	Three From Bette…

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Poor Enough Means

I’m sorry if I offend you.  But I don’t swear just for the hell of it.  You see, I figure language is a poor enough means of communication as it is.  So we ought to use all the words we’ve got.  Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands.
—   Henry Drummond (the character)
Written by:  Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
From their play / book:  “Inherit The Wind“
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On This Day In:
2015	Still Standing
	Follow Your Heart
2014	Just Reminded
2013	A Fine Balance
2012	One Measure
2011	Seeking The Common Ground
	In Brightest Day…

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Just Asking…

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
––    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On This Day In:
2015	Two Thoughts On Thinking
2014	From The Top, Please…
2013	You Are The Stars
2012	Just One??
2011	Anything But

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Returning To The Same Box

Both my sons enjoy playing chess.  Largely self taught, my young Rooks will challenge one another with the tool disguised as a game that has been used for generations to teach the strategies of war, the art of psychology and philosophy, the value of patience, forethought, mindfulness and principals that are true of life as much as they are true in Chess such as the fact it is just as important to win with grace as it is to lose with dignity, that strategy without patience is caustic, that we must remain flexible and that at the end of the day, the pawn and the king both return to the same box…
Found at one of the blogs I follow:  One Thousand Single Days
Specific post:  http://onethousandsingledays.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/the-lesson/
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On This Day In:
2015	The Hunter’s Music
2014	Dedication
2013	Unhappy Alternatives
2012	Implications
2011	Never Let Us Down

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Definitely Not Bell Shaped

Andrew Russell, a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.  “Every jump in technology draws attention and capital away from existing technologies used by the 99 percent, which therefore undermines equality, and reduces the ability for people to get onto the ‘playing field’ in the first place.”
Russell also reminded me of the famous William Gibson quote, “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
“I have never been able to understand why anyone would assume that the future would be evenly distributed,” Russell said.  “To put this in a different way:  I have never been able to find any evidence from human history to suggest that the future will be evenly distributed.”
—    Adrienne LaFrance
From his article: “Technology, the Faux Equalizer“
Appearing in:  The Atlantic
31 March 2016
Found at one of the news sites I follow:  http://www.routefifty.com/
The specific link is:  http://www.routefifty.com/2016/03/silicon-valley-inequality-digital-divide/127147/?oref=govexec_today_nl
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On This Day In:
2015	Dreadful Pity
2014	Worse Than Useless
2013	Personal Prisons
2012	So, Not Yet Then
2011	Real Love

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Oh, So Lacking

Responsibility is the ability to respond and be fully responsible for oneself and for nobody else.  This is, I believe, the most basic characteristic of the mature person.
—    Friedrich (Fritz / Frederick) S. Perls
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On This Day In:
2015	e pluribus unum
2014	Nothing So Far Removed
2013	Positions
2012	Two Errors
2011	Long Live The King!

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