“When there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good [people] is but knowledge in the making.” – John Milton
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The Longest Day of the Year
Happy Solstice, everyone! "Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run."
Mmmoon
mjh wonders what moon water tastes like. And Martian water, too.
earliest sunrise is earlier than you think
“While the solstice itself falls on the morning of the 21st, the earliest sunrise of the year occurs a week before on the 14th.” [*]
On my mind
“I can’t forget, but I don’t remember what.” – Leonard Cohen
living
“I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a life.” – Maya Angelou
"Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing… till the ductile anchor hold; Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul." Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider