Let us not underestimate the importance of mimicry in the process of learning and discovery.
How much of who we are is based on whom we’ve met.
How much of how we behave is based on who’ve observed.
What happens when evryone has learnt from watching the same subject?
Turn off your TVs. Now.
Celebrity is something only coveted by those who have no experience–direct or indirect–of it, at any scale; and the ego-maniacally insane.
I like dates. I buy them every so often and when I do, I really enjoy them.
Medjool dates seem to be what is mostly on offer around here, so a bit of googling.
Wikipedia about dates in general.
Notice how “Western Date Ranches” in California/Arizona snapped up the domain.
This is my favorite part (other than eating them of course):
Google Street view of where the dates I am enjoying are grown and harvested:
(you can just make out the company name on the front of the building)
Train your eye and your vision lusts after colour.
Train your ear , and you long for beautiful sound.
Delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape.
Delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.
Overdo liturgy, and you turn into a ham actor.
Overdo your love of music, and you play corn.
Love of wisdom leads to wise contriving.
Love of knowledge leads to faultfinding.
- Way of Chuang Tzu
on continue