Three Wise Women would have:
asked directions
been on time
brought practical gifts
helped deliver the baby
cleaned the stable
made a casserole
… and there would be Peace on Earth!
– Anonymous
Tag: Animals
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday
Sometimes
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes I just sits.
— A.A.Milne
Tension
The world is all gates,
all opportunities,
strings of tension
waiting to be struck.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taking Flight
When fears are grounded
Dreams take flight
– Unknown
Misery’s Reflection
Part of every misery is
the misery’s shadow or reflection:
that you don’t merely suffer,
but keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.
— C. S. Lewis
In the Box
I’ll be more enthusiastic
about encouraging thinking outside the box
when there’s evidence of any thinking going on
inside it.
– Terry Prachett
Boy Meets Girl
The meeting of two personalities
is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction,
both are transformed.
― Carl Jung
Two different crops of the same image. I find the first more interesting, the second more intimate, but maybe a shade … clichéd? What do you think?
Still Waters
Jeremy yawned. Camping was bad enough; if only his Dad didn’t insist on having these pointless conversations. Did he exist? Well, obviously! Yes, like a drop of water joins the sea, he would die one day – who wanted to be old, anyway? But unlike a drop of water, he would enjoy life along the way.
Could he prove he existed? Sometimes Dad was like little Louey, really! Told the knight couldn’t move in a straight line, Louey had gone berserk: Prove it! he had shouted. Those are the rules, dummy. You don’t prove them, they’re just there. If you don’t like them, don’t play chess.
Family was really the limit. After lunch he’d find a way to slope off.
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T. Mastgrave’s philosophical story challenge: Can you be sure you exist?
A Better Mousetrap?
If you build a better mousetrap,
you will catch better mice.
– George Gobel
Pounce!
Change your life today.
Don’t gamble on the future,
act now,
without delay.
– Simone de Beauvoir
Ineffable
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
– T.S. Eliot
Start off the year on a bit of nonsense: The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter…
Coat of Many Colours
I met in the street a very poor young man
who was in love.
His hat was old, his coat worn,
his cloak was out at the elbows,
the water passed through his shoes,
and the stars through his soul.
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J’ai rencontré dans la rue un jeune homme très pauvre
qui aimait.
Son chapeau était vieux, son habit était usé;
il avait les coudes troués;
l’eau passait à travers ses souliers
et les astres à travers son âme.
– Victor Hugo
Mine
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
I can assure you mine are still greater.
– Albert Einstein
Olaf joined me on an I.T. project in Stockholm as MSE, or moral support elk. The photo shows him hard at work. He doesn’t come from Sweden, but enjoyed working there immensely. The people, the culture, the climate: he felt right at home. He even started looking out for a position with the local office.
On-site in October, he suddenly realised they turn the lights out in winter, and decided to retire to the South.
Below you see Olaf studying Swedish, as he still loves Sweden, and hopes to go there on holiday soon – in the summer, of course. He feels quite protective of all things Swedish: even if he’s not really from there, he feels being an “Älg” makes him belong!
Olaf says Hi to everyone, especially those afflicted with I.T. projects, and of course: Hälsningar!
This Week’s Photo Challenge: Mine.
On Earth, but Not Quite
There’s something about the water –
that solitary kind of peaceful feeling.
You’re on Earth,
but not quite.
– John C. Reilly
As a water lover, I just couldn’t resist this quote.
The Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary
Friends
A true friend
knows your weaknesses
but shows you your strengths;
sees your anxieties
but frees your spirit.
– William Arthur Ward
Ignorance is Bliss
So many things are possible
just as long as you don’t know
they’re impossible.
– Norton Juster
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Dobedido. We’ve been freshly pressed!
Wag,wag,wag…
Rrwoof. Woof!
Yes, Bertie. Good thing we didn’t know the odds…
Snail’s Pace
Upon a pane a snail did wander
The airy, lofty view to ponder
And after quite a lengthy stay
It went sedately on its way.
In philosophy,
if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace
you aren’t moving at all.
– Iris Murdoch
Stray Thoughts 