Weekend 269.0 (July 4th Weekend)
(1) The 10 Best folding bikes: The popularity of folding bikes means there is now a huge range, whether you want one for commuting or rugged off-road riding (The Independent) Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Weekend 268.0
“In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.” – Karl Rahner
Weekend 260.1
“I like the pleasures we pilfer from everyday life, they brighten the day. They are mundane, they fell repetitive, they reassure.” — Jean-Claude Ellena
Weekend 259.0 (Paper Streets)
(1) Take Me Out to the…Cricket Match (WSJ – Registration Required) “When much of the world map was painted British red, cricket served as a key expression of imperial values. Continue Reading →
Weekend 256.0
Books (1) Finding Florida: An exhaustive, sometimes disheartening chronicle of the rogues, connivers, hypocrites, scoundrels and thieves in Floridian history. (WSJ – Registration Required) (2) Guidebooks Go Niche: These three Continue Reading →
Weekend 255.2
“He should not come forward with the sad, bent posture of one who knows the world is in ruins and only the facades remain. He should be joyous anyway.” — Continue Reading →
The Eternal City
“First, the color, which was not like the color of other cities I had been in. Not concrete color, not cold glass color, not the color of overburned brick or Continue Reading →
Weekend 252.0
(1) No monk is an island but there is snow in the forecast this weekend so; (a) Wall Street Journal, (b) Wall Street Journal Magazine, (c) Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Continue Reading →
Weekend 251.0
“Like everything else at Imagineering, ideas never die; they just get put away for a while.” — It’s Kind of a Cute Story by Rolly Crump (1) It’s the same Continue Reading →
Weekend 250.0 (Where Orwell meets Nordlinger)
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous — to poetry.” — Thomas Mann (1) The Wall Street Journal is publishing most its newest content Continue Reading →