February 2011
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January 2011
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Honey, don’t forget what the half-life is on the autonomic nervous system!
– Robert Sapolsky
Through all of life, in every event, and through every aspect of your life there...
– Tim Keller on Genesis 29:15 – 35. Get it here.
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into the chasms of life and death,
between the fortress of solitude.
– T.B.
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NEW GAGA SONG →
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHRYN JOHNSON!
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Russian Joke
Mikhail Gorbachev was having lunch at Windsor Castle during his visit to Britain. As the guests were working their way through the hor-d’oeuvres he was horrified to spot one of his apparatchiks sliding one of HM’s gold spoons into his sleeve.
At first, Gorby was outraged. But then, struck with a bright idea, started to work his own spoon towards his pocket. Unfortunately it struck his...
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
– Stendhal
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Food for the mind is like food for the body — the inputs are never the same as...
– Marshall McLuhan
Try Me, Good King: Last words of the Wives of...
Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
Text from the final letters and gallows speeches of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, and Katherine Howard.
Katherine of Aragon
Letter to King Henry VIII, January 7, 1536
My most dear Lord, King, and Husband,
The hour of my death now drawing on, the tender love I owe you forces me … to commend myself unto you and to put you in remembrance...
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Silent Noon, from The House of Life
Ralph Vaughan Williams Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms ’Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass. All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge. ’Tis visible...