Apiarian - Sunday, August 12 ~ World Elephant Day ~ 2018

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,

advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. -

James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 7 Aug 1928)

"I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

"Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild

and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need

as a species to move between nature and culture."

~Richard Mabey (b.1941)

"Life is a voyage of discovery."

~ Unknown

"There is nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend."

~Bob Ross (1942-1995)

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain. -

Sara Teasdale, poet (8 Aug 1884-1933

"Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.

They flickered out saying: 'It was worth being a bubble,

just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.'"

~Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

"Have you also learned that secret from the river;

that there is no such thing as time?

That the river is everywhere at the same time,

at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall,

at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean

and in the mountains, everywhere

and that the present only exists for it,

not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."

~Hermann Hesse (1877-1962

What magical trick makes us intelligent?

The trick is that there is no trick.

The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity,

not from any single, perfect principle.

-Marvin Minsky, scientist and author (9 Aug 1927-2016)

"Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream;

both myth and dream are symbolic

in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche.

But in the dream the forms are quirked

by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer,

whereas in myth the problem

and solutions shown are directly

valid for all humanity."

~Joseph Campbell (1904-1987