Some people need coffee to wake up to a beautiful morning. I prefer gorgeous sunrises in the quiet of the day, when all the animals are moving about but most humans are still snoring away. Sunrises are definitely better than sunsets for me.
Archive for January 2008
That is the title of Aldous Huxley’s book about the post-war era. In it, he mentions that the older people (in their 60’s) revel in arrested development. They insist on staying young and being young that they become anomalies because they never move on. I always thought that this was a new phenomenon. Apparently not.
Truly, nothing is new under the sun.
“Hotspur’s summary has a final clause: time must have a stop. And not only must, as an ethical imperative and an eschatological hope, but also does have a stop, in the indicative tense, as a matter of brute experience. It is only by taking the fact of eternity into account that we can deliver thought from its slavery to life. And it is only by deliberately paying our attention and our primary allegiance to eternity that we can prevent time from turning our lives into a pointless or diabolic foolery.“
Why is everybody going crazy about these funny little shoes? From little kids to taitais to grandmas they seem to be on everyone’s feet just like the crocs craze. Supposedly, the shoes story goes back to 1979 in Brazil and was inspired by the fishermen of the French Riviera.