- Audiobooks are much less befuddling when your player is not set to "shuffle."
- A close call with his death does not change a bloody freakin' tyrant into a human being.
- Breath is both precious and fragile.
- When you have to wear a shirt, a vest, and a blazer at your desk in July, it's too darned cold. However, since no one in thirty years has been able to adjust the sixty-year-old HVAC system, think of shivering as exercise, and move on. (Add fingerless mitts to knitting queue.)
- You do not need to pack two books, one knitting project, one magazine, stationery, five fountain pens, your MP3 player, and enough tranquilizers to soothe a rampaging herd of elephants for a half-hour stint in a waiting room. Srsly. Lose the magazine.
- Knitting instructions generally mean what they say, especially when the chart matches. (Thank you, OfTroy.)
- When I think of the perfect Michael Jackson tribute album, I hope with all my heart that someone plays "Beat it" on panflute.
- July 3 advice from the Dalai Lama via his insight-a-day calendar: "Genuine compassion is unbiased." Note: try it on myself.
Congratulations to Denise of Clear Creek Lavender! - You have won Dewey and something yarny. Thank you all for your contributions to Heifer International.
Re: teabagging. Newsday columnist Ellis Hennican posted a Tweet that says it all.
- Top marginal tax rates: Reagan (50%), Kennedy (77%), Eisenhower (91%), Clinton (39.6%). Today? (35%). Oh my God! Pass the Lipton! Tea time!
Anna has posted a link and meditation about Susan Boyle : Some days, life gets it right. Indeed it does. Judith Krug has died. Whether you know who she is or not, please read her obituary in the New York Times. She was important.And finally, (not) wordless.
