Two Things.

This: builtinbirthcontrol

And this: reverentreader


The blogs of peeps I love.

Word.

This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe . . . The first result of this illusion is that our attitude to the world "outside" us is largely hostile. We are forever "conquering" nature, space, mountains, deserts, bacteria, and insects instead of learning to cooperate with them in a harmonious order.

--Alan Watts, The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are


P.S.--I still hate mosquitoes.

Daily Bread

I wonder what it's like to not understand how blessedly amazing it can feel to punch in some numbers to a grade book, watch a student's average move up to a 70%, and be thrilled.