February 8, 2012

Quotes of the week

Old wisdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapharmakos

Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure

“America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote.”
Unknown

Websites of the week

http://inoveryourhead.net/100-tips-about-life/

The culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

The Fireplace delusion

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion

Poem of the Week

Going to Heaven

by Emily Dickinson

Going to heaven!
I don't know when,
Pray do not ask me how,--
Indeed, I'm too astonished
To think of answering you!
Going to heaven!--
How dim it sounds!
And yet it will be done
As sure as flocks go home at night
Unto the shepherd's arm!

Perhaps you're going too!
Who knows?
If you should get there first,
Save just a little place for me
Close to the two I lost!
The smallest "robe" will fit me,
And just a bit of "crown";
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home.

I'm glad I don't believe it,
For it would stop my breath,
And I'd like to look a little more
At such a curious earth!
I am glad they did believe it
Whom I have never found
Since the mighty autumn afternoon
I left them in the ground.

Video of the week

New office New office!

Old office http://youtu.be/r5S4ecVDMkM