“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
June 27, 2017
June 20, 2017
Bee or Mosquito?
It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
–Mary O’Connor
June 12, 2017
Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is a national treasure. Her show On Being features some of the best contemporary thinkers and writers and airs on over 400 public radio station and online internationally. Listeners will love her show and her approach to interviewing, and perhaps one of her books, the latest is called Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.
Here she is interviewing Alain de Botton on the topic of love and relationships. His article entitled “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person” was the most-read article in The New York Times in 2016 shocking him and his editors alike.
June 1, 2017
Reading & a Better Life
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
–Karin Slaughter, novelist (b. 6 Jan 1971)
The Curious Autodidact 
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