Fear and its meanings

 F-E-A-R has two meanings:

Forget Everything And Run

     Or

Face Everything and Rise.

The choice is yours.-FACEBOOK,Peaceful Warrior Black Belt Club,September 6,2023.

Quote from Mark Rothko

 An involvement in light presupposes an acquaintance with shadow.-Mark Rothko

An underrated song from Bill Withers that I love for its lyrics and melody

 Harlem-song by Bill Withers.

Spaghetti

 Spaghetto is the singular word for spaghetti.If you eat only one strand of spaghetti,you're eating a spaghetto.

Sikh motorcyclists in California

 Sikh motorcyclists in California are working for an exemption from the state's law that mandates riders to wear helmets.The Sikh can't put on helmets because of their turbans,which they don't remove or put anything on top of for religious reasons.-Bianca Hillier,PRI The World,June 7,2023.

A remarkable adventurer from Denmark

 Thor Pedersen,a former UN soldier originally from Denmark went on a decade-long adventure that took him to every country in the world.The trick-he never took an airplane.By train,bus,boat,container ship and other forms of transport he covered over 2,20,000 miles.-PRI,THE WORLD,August 4,2023

Quote from Ratan Tata

 Eat your food as your medicine,otherwise you have to eat medicine as your food.-Ratan Tata

How pigs cool off

 Pigs do not have sweat glands,so they cool off by rolling in mud or water.

Chickens

 Chickens have more bones in their neck than giraffes.

Misomaniac

 A misomaniac is someone who hates everyone and everything.

Great quote on shame

 Shame dies when stories are told in safe places.-Ann Voskamp

An obscure song from Dr.Hook that I like

 On The Way To The Bottom-song by Dr.Hook

Quote on women

 Women grow radical with age.One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the earth.-Gloria Steinem

Quote from Alice Walker

 Look closely at the present you are constructing.It should look like the future you are dreaming.-Alice Walker

Sikhs in Canada

 There are about 8,00,000 Sikhs living in Canada in 2023,most of whom who are living in British Columbia,Alberta and Ontario.

Quote from Alan Cohen

 Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.-Alan Cohen

A song from Blue Oyster Cult that I won

 Burnin' For You-song by Blue Oyster Cult.

                    This song contains the line 'I'm burning,I'm burning,I'm burning for you.'

Quote from Vivienne Westwood

 My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.-Vivienne Westwood

Another quote from Gary Oldman

 What other people think of me is none of my business.-Gary Oldman(born 1958),English actor

Quote from Gary Oldman

 My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.-Gary Oldman(born 1958),English actor.

Quote from Robert Bly

 It is not our job to remain whole,we came to lose our leaves like the trees,and be born again drawing up from the great roots.-Robert Bly

Quote on religion

 All religions are incarnations of primitive superstition.-Albert Einstein

Quote from Gordie Howe

 It's been said that,while growing up,I ate meals with my skates on.It's true.-Gordie Howe

A song from Gloria Gaynor that I like

 Honeybee-song by Gloria Gaynor.

Interesting quote on translation

 Literalism really doesn't exist,you know,because the languages don't dovetail exactly.So you can't have a word-for-word correspondence between one language and another.But you can have a correspondence of ideas and intention-aesthetic intention,as well as significance.And that's what you have to be-faithful to.-Literary translator Edith Grossman,speaking with Eleanor Wachtel on WRITERS AND COMPANY,CBC in 2005.

Quote from Wendell Berry

 Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.-Wendell Berry

Quote from Paul Eldridge

 We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices,so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.-Paul Eldridge

Quote from TUPAC

 They have money for war,but can't feed the poor.-TUPAC

Quote on speculation

 Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism,but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.-David Harvey

Quote from Robert Creeley

 My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.-Robert Creeley

Quote from Rebecca West

 My memory is certainly in my hands.I can remember things only if I have a pencil and can write.-Rebecca West

Chia seeds

 Chia seeds contain five times more calcium than milk and twice as much iron as spinach.

Quote from Chris Kraus

 Once you've accepted total obscurity you may as well do what you want.-Chris Kraus

Quote on writing

 Writing is mostly thinking,and thinking is hard to do.-Rebecca Solnit

An incredible mountain climber and adventurer

 A guy from Sweden named Goran Kropp(1966-2002) rode his bicycle to Nepal in 1996,climbed Mount Everest alone without any shares or oxygen bottles,then cycled back to Sweden again.

             What a remarkable,awe-inspiring athlete and adventurer!

Quote from Hunter S.Thompson

 Life is beautiful and living is pain.-Hunter S.Thompson

Spending a billion dollars

 If you had 1 billion dollars and spent $1000 every day,it would take 2750 years to spend it all.

Instant relief from a headache

 If you put your hands into ice water and start to think about the positive things that have happened in your life,then you"ll get instant relief from a headache.

Great tweet from Anne Hathaway

 Sometimes the nicest of the people are covered in tattoos & the most judgmental people you meet go to church on Sundays.-Anne Hathaway @AnneHathaway

Insightful quote on persecution

 Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.-Chapman Cohen,OPINIONS,RANDOM REFLECTIONS,AND WAYWARD MUSINGS(1932).

Quote from Chapman Cohen

 The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd,than he is in the right with only one or two companions.-Chapman Cohen

Quote on religion

 Religion is very enlightening- to those who don't understand it. -Chapman Cohen

Quote from John Cage

 There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time.There is always something to see,something to hear.In fact,try as we may to make a silence,we cannot.-John Cage

Quote from Lytton Strachey

 It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.-Lytton Strachey

Quote from Bernard Meltzer

 Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true,is kind,is necessary.-Bernard Meltzer

Quote from George Carlin

 Just when I discovered the meaning of life,they changed it.-George Carlin

Quote from Chapman Cohen

 Worship God.It's easier than thinking.-Chapman Cohen

Caffeine

 Caffeine increases bowel movements.

The Metro grocery store chain in Canada

 The grocery store chain Metro has stores only in three provinces in Canada in August 2023:Quebec,Ontario and New Brunswick.

Planting mint around your house

 Planting mint around your house,or growing mint in your house can prevent ants from coming into your house.Mint destroys ants' sense of smell,making them less likely to risk the possibility of entering.Grow mint plants near doors/windows and place mint leaves in pantries.

Frigate birds

 Frigate birds sleep while they fly.They have an ability to turn off half of their brain and put their body on autopilot.

Employees get this gift here

 Employees who work at Jack Daniels get a free bottle of Jack Daniels with their paycheck every month.

Drinking turtle tears

 Butterflies like to drink turtle tears,because it contains so much sodium,which the butterflies need.

A song from 1985 that I like

 Hounds of Love(1985)-song by Kate Bush.

The Arctic Fox

 The Arctic Fox changes its fur color to match the seasons.It is white in winter and brown in summer.

Quote from Don DeLillo

 A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.-Don DeLillo

What Charles Darwin sometimes ate

 The evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin ate many of the animals he researched, including iguanas,armadillos,and giant tortoises.

              Quite creepy.Gasp!

Crowbar

 Some people take out the crowbar and seek concessions.

A

 Strangely,the Letter " A" does not appear in a written number until a Thousand.

Smoke taint

 Wildfire smoke sometimes gets into vineyard grapes and bottled wine;it is called smoke taint.

Renovations

 Renovations to a heritage home cost a king's ransom sometimes.

Reality Tv

 Reality Tv to me is the museum of social decay.-Gary Oldman

Quote from Nina Simone

 I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself,reactivate my own standards,my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.-Nina Simone

Miraculously rare births in Ohio

 Ohio couple with the same birthday gave birth to twins on their birthday.The whole family has the same birthday.

                Scierra Blair,31, and Josee Ervin,32-who both celebrate their birthdays on August 18 welcomed a twin son and a daughter into the world in Cleveland on August 18,2023.

                   How miraculous is that!

Quote on cancer

 Whether you are rich or poor,beautiful or ugly,young or old,cancer knows no boundaries.-Sylvie Meis

Quote from John Stuart Mill

 I have learned to seek happiness by limiting my desires,rather than by trying to satisfy them.-John Stuart Mill

Washing your hands at a restaurant

 At a restaurant?Wash your hands after ordering.The menu is generally the dirtiest thing you can touch!

Quote from Mark Groves

 Let's raise kids who don't need to recover from their childhood.-Mark Groves

Great quote on stupidity

 When stupidity is considered patriotism,it is unsafe to be intelligent.-Isaac Asimov,American writer and biochemist.