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Miner disturbances
The other morning I went outside to hang some washing, and looked up to see 5 or 6 native miner birds noisily harrassing a kookaburra that was looking over the backyard from a gum tree in the back corner of next door's. As I have mentioned before, I have some sense of connection with kookaburras ( Read more... ) -
Damn pesky ego
'Our sense of time passing is a function of the ego.'
- from the article 'Transcending Time' by Steve Taylor
in the free Nova newspaper, January 2009. -
Touch the spindle
I feel as if I am at the mercy of brain chemistry. -
Then again
Voltaire is also credited as remarking that 'A witty saying proves nothing.'
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Utter utter
" 'Voltaire said that madness was thinking of too many things in succession too quickly or to think of one thing obsessively. Get a life, Vincent. Before it's too late.'
'Yeah, well, a philosopher called Jagger once said "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."' "
- Exchange between two characters in the novel Bombproof by Michael Robotham ( Read more... ) -
Feels wrong
"You shouldn't feel that way," he said, after asking me how I felt. -
More seeing with wolves
'Life is strange... Someone tells you about something you didn't even know existed, something unimaginable, something you can't bring yourself to believe in, and the words are hardly out of their mouth before you find out all about it for yourself.'
- from Eye of the Wolf by Daniel Pennac -
I see: I don't see
This paraphrase of da Vinci puts something I was trying to say to bedfordbabe (the newest member of my Friends List, and a light in most my days of late) the night before last a little more clearly, I hope ( Read more... ) -
'a fundamental joy'
'The tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. The appreciation of the separate realities enjoyed by other organisms is not only no threat to our own reality, but the root of a fundamental joy.'
- from Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez,
quoted ahead of Chapter 1 of Blue Wolf by ( Read more... )