Photo Memory of the Week
Poetry of the Week
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!Source: A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican, Dixon Lanier Merritt
Posted: 2023 Mar 17
Music of the Week
Posted: 2023 Mar 24
Tweet of the Week
Australia plotted by every mapped stream and river... all 1.3 million of them pic.twitter.com/7sx7LgemOM
— Amazing Maps (@amazingmap) March 11, 2023
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622 @JonathanWNV @PattyHajdu Mar 24 and there are 32 long term advisories, 23 short term advisories, and an additional 21 advisories in BC. The Kinookimaw Nation is on track to have their DNC go long term next month. They deserve better than this.
"Meanderthal: A person who walks particularly slowly and aimlessly..."
Words Worth Noting - March 25, 2023 https://thejohnrobson.com/blog/2023/3/25/words-worth-noting-march-25-2023
“I always believed in the theory that the poor are ordinary human beings. But I shall never forget the moment of shattering astonishment when I discovered that they really were.” #GKChesterton
https://mailchi.mp/chesterton/lent20230325?e=5f14670eceAlso, lovely to see parliamentary guard Sam Son here today. He was injured while defending Centre Block against the 2014 gunman who stormed Parliament.
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Category Archives: Quotations
The Philosophers’ Stone
Better the penny drops late than not at all. Continue reading
Let Me
One of them thar Texan poets. Continue reading
Two Stubborn Pieces of Iron
Chesterton on the relations between the sexes. Continue reading
The Same River
Yes, the universe is unfolding as it should. Continue reading
Some Power
Was Robert Burns a Flat-Earther, do you suppose? Continue reading
Time-Travelling Space Aliens
Half-remembered quotation causing trouble again. Continue reading
Life Is
Life is a bucket brigade: Don’t slop the bucket when it’s your turn. What’s that you say? You’ve never heard that metaphor for life before? You wonder if I made it up? Well, OK. I understand your skepticism. What else? … Continue reading
You’re Too Kind
Starting with the expression that “it takes all kinds,” I explore just how many kinds there are. It takes all kinds, or so I hear. Although it’s not when someone is being a fun, thoughtful, or salt-of-the-earth kind. No, … Continue reading
By Bread Alone
A chance encounter with buckwheat tea leads to deep thoughts about bread, bread-like substances, and proverbs. It started innocently enough. Doesn’t it always? It ended with yet another overwhelming spell on Dr. Google’s couch. But I get ahead of myself. … Continue reading