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A nice Q&A with the great Maria Shriver… Curious how you guys would have answ…
A nice Q&A with the great Maria Shriver…
Curious how you guys would have answered these questions.
Happy day!
LG
Tell Me More: Elizabeth Gilbert – NBC News
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Author Elizabeth Gilbert inspired readers worldwide with her 2006 memoir “Eat, Pray, Love. Her most recent novel, “The Signature of All Things,” is a critica…
MY GREEN VALENTINE! Have a passionate day, dear ones, devoting yourself with al…
MY GREEN VALENTINE!
Have a passionate day, dear ones, devoting yourself with all your soul to whoever (or whatever) you love…
Heart,
LG
Our poor, giant, stoic Buddha — carved far away in warm South Vietnam — never im…
Our poor, giant, stoic Buddha — carved far away in warm South Vietnam — never imagined what was coming to him in New Jersey.
Two Buttons is closed today for snow…but open again tomorrow! (Buddha willing!)
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I think we mentioned that we had a lot of snow!!!But our lovely Buddha from Vietnam still happy!!!
It's a colorful and happy day in Frenchtown!
EMOTIONAL/PHILOSOPHICAL TOPIC FOR CONSIDERATION, DISGUISED AS CUTE PET VIDEO……
EMOTIONAL/PHILOSOPHICAL TOPIC FOR CONSIDERATION, DISGUISED AS CUTE PET VIDEO…
All I want in life is to have the total equanimity, serenity and unflappability of this perfectly zen dog.
But most of the time, I'm sorry to report, I am the desperately distracted squirrel.
So how do we become the dog and stop being the squirrel?
Discuss.
(Alternatively, just watch this video for entertainment, 6 times in a row.)
Heart,
LG
Pet Squirrel hides his nut in the fur of a Bernese Mountain dog as seen on Ridiculousness
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Our pet Squirrel, Wally, hides his nut in the fur of our Bernese Mountain dog Jax.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHARLES DARWIN. I can’t let this day pass without paying homage…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHARLES DARWIN.
I can't let this day pass without paying homage.
The 19th century was the most transformative of human history. No century ever ended more differently than it began, and one of the reasons for that great seismic shift in human thinking was this good man.
Never did so gentle a soul ignite such a wild revolution.
He never wanted to be a radical. Darwin left his theory of evolution unpublished for almost 20 years because he was afraid that it would do exactly what it DID do — namely, cause a fight between religion and science that still hasn't ended. His own beloved wife, when he first brought her the idea, burst into tears and asked, "Does this mean we won't meet our dead children in heaven, after all?" Painful question to ask one who was so kind and humane, and who had almost become a minister himself.
When I think of Darwin, I think of his brilliant prose (a novelist's prose, as Alma noted in The Signature of All Things) but I also think of his deep goodness, his battles with depression, his utter devotion to science. He spent his life in study of the natural world, and his projects consumed his entire home, his entire life. The entire family participated in his experiments. His young children played their bassoons to his earthworms, to see if the creatures responded to vibration.
My favorite story: One of Darwin's daughters went to a visit a friend's house one day, looked around at her playmate's home and asked, "But where does your father do his barnacles?"
THAT was a Victorian, my friends.
Happy birthday, sir.
Love,
Liz and Alma