The purring epigram

I'm all about the shenanigans.

” A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
 

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…

- Aldous Huxley, Island

kqedscience:

Smallest Fossil Footprints Found“The world’s tiniest fossil footprints have been found in Canada. Researchers say they were left behind by a scurrying salamander-like creature 315 million years ago.”

I’m oscillating between wonder and dread at the thought of what our print will be, 315 million years from now…

kqedscience:

Smallest Fossil Footprints Found

“The world’s tiniest fossil footprints have been found in Canada. Researchers say they were left behind by a scurrying salamander-like creature 315 million years ago.”

I’m oscillating between wonder and dread at the thought of what our print will be, 315 million years from now…

(via publicradiointernational)