Quotes of the week
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.
~Leo Tolstoy~
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
~Bible, Mark (ch. III, v. 25)~
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi
Enjoy your little while the fool seeks for more.
~Proverb, (Spanish)~
Poem of the Week
The Very Old
The very old are forever
hurting themselves,
burning their fingers
on skillets, falling
loosely as trees
and breaking their hips
with muffled explosions of bone.
Down the block
they are wheeled in
out of our sight
for years at a time.
To make conversation,
the neighbors ask
if they are still alive.
Then, early one morning,
through our kitchen windows
we see them again,
first one and then another,
out in their gardens
on crutches and canes,
perennial,
checking their gauges for rain.
hurting themselves,
burning their fingers
on skillets, falling
loosely as trees
and breaking their hips
with muffled explosions of bone.
Down the block
they are wheeled in
out of our sight
for years at a time.
To make conversation,
the neighbors ask
if they are still alive.
Then, early one morning,
through our kitchen windows
we see them again,
first one and then another,
out in their gardens
on crutches and canes,
perennial,
checking their gauges for rain.
♬ Song of the week
The Avett Brothers - Murder InThe City 974,830 views
Thanks , Rob, for this song and for the love that lets us share our name.
Video of the week
Walkin’ my baby back home
You can’t make up such a thing as that, I dare you to even try
☞Websites of the week
Old photographs with lots of famous people like Albert Camus and Marie Curie
☢And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor☢
It was on this day in 1970, that the Public Broadcasting Service was founded in America. The model for "public service broadcasting" was established in Britain in 1922 with the creation of the British Broadcasting Company, which a few years later became the BBC we know today, the British Broadcasting Corporation. The stated mission of the BBC was to "to inform, educate, and entertain." It had lofty ideals for how it would serve the country, and adopted a coat of arms whose motto was "Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation." At the same time in the United States, radio was being set up in a way that encouraged commercial-driven, decentralized programming.
So in 1967, Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Public Broadcasting Act, with similar goals — the Act stated that the new media would be "for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes." Johnson said: "It announces to the world that our Nation wants more than just material wealth; our Nation wants more than a 'chicken in every pot.' We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. While we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. That is the purpose of this act." The Act established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and out of that, PBS and NPR.
