Identity

> To be yourself in a world, that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. — Waldo (@EmersonRalphyW) February 1, 2015 [https://twitter.com/EmersonRalphyW/status/561982948472139776] http://bookmania.me/post/110874701902/to-be-nobody-but-yourself-in-a-world-which-is…

To Celebrate

> We need portraits of accountants, tram-drivers and IT managers to bring out the quiet heroism of just getting by http://t.co/uq0fNkCCJ2 — The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) February 16, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife/status/567330204960710657]…

I walk...

> I Walk, Therefore I am http://t.co/rGN9sE8UWS via @HuffPoLifestyle [https://twitter.com/HuffPoLifestyle] — West Wraps (@westwraps) February 14, 2015 [https://twitter.com/westwraps/status/566716126785073152] Some good reading about walking at the link. Via @carlhonore, himself a walker.…

For the Day

> "In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow And keep eternal spring-time on thy face." -Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) February 15, 2015 [https://twitter.com/OWC_Oxford/status/567049495188627458] Shakespeare had a thought for days like this.…

On Approaching Seventy

> Watching the hands of my son kneading challah dough on the maple cutting board in my kitchen, a memory > rises of my mother bending over our kitchen table in Flatbush, pressing, stretching, folding flour, water, eggs > into a living elastic. Sometimes in my dreams, Mom appears, whispers…

Toffler/Change

> Still true: "Change is the process by which the #future [https://twitter.com/hashtag/future?src=hash] invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely," Alvin Toffler 1970 — World Future Society (@WorldFutureSoc) February 15, 2015 [https://twitter.com/WorldFutureSoc/status/566982629120290816] I wish…

In the Beginning

> The Marvelous Health Benefits of Chocolate: A Curious Medical Essay from 1631 http://t.co/uX70qobW9N pic.twitter.com/ZdS6GplDlZ [http://t.co/ZdS6GplDlZ] — Open Culture (@openculture) February 13, 2015 [https://twitter.com/openculture/status/566327727913857026] I hope all that stuff I've posted is a little more…