Hold on to the center

Happiness is too often measured on the margin.

New beginnings

No job, no car, no dice

You know times are bad when the latest crazy car promotion is that you can return the car if you get laid off.

There is no yellow Ace

Scared money cant win and a worried man cant love.

~Cormac McCarthy, from All the Pretty Horses

Not exactly Maple Street, Springfield

Some very funny, very unfortunately named streets and other locales from this post at YesButNoButYes.

Here’s a sample, from St. Andrews, Scotland:

What’s really out there

Night Sky Over Flagstaff, Arizona. April 16, 2008

From NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day.”

Flagstaff, the first “International Dark Sky City,” maintains a lighting code that limits lights from polluting the nighttime view of the sky.

Clearly Arizona is hogging all the stars.

No HPS required

There is no way to happiness.  Happiness is the way.

~Buddha

Everything old is new again

The secret to eternal wonderment is to release our tight grip on what we think we know, to look at all of the familiar old faces, the worn surroundings and predictable vistas, and see that they are as utterly unique as the moment we first encountered them, that they are not fully captured by our mental categorizations and ersatz memories.  (Though if you start getting lost on your way to the shower, you may have gone too far.)

“The map is not the territory.”  Look up and see, not the “mountain,” but the mountain.

You know you’re getting older when…

Hollywood greenlights remakes of  great movies you remember like they were yesterday – most recently “Arthur” and “Romancing the Stone.”

Best Movies of 2008

Of the ones I saw, nothing compared to:

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. WALL-E

And nothing was more overrated than:

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button