Things Are Good

Friday Haiku day
What kinds can you come up with?
Because they are great.
Want an idea?
I found this great craigslist thread
Some of them are COOL
Here are my contributions for the day…
David Suzuki
Has a wicked foundation
We can save the World
ALSO
I really love bjork
She’s coming to Toronto
I am extatic!!

It’s called arborsculpture, and Richard Reames has been doing it for years. He plants trees in patterns, and uses bending and grafting techniques to form the saplings into benches, staircases, sculptures, and an assortment of other amazing living things.
I believe that if enough people put their minds to using living trees, we can learn to [...]

Intolerance lies at the core of evil.
Not the intolerance that results
from any threat or danger.
But intolerance of another being who dares to exist.
Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us,
because every human being secretly desires
the entire universe to himself.
Our only way out is to learn
compassion without cause. To care for each other
simple because that [...]

Good science cannot long persist in an atmosphere of intimidation. Political figures ought to be reviewing their public statements to make sure they are consistent with the best available science; scientists should not be reviewing their statements to make sure they are consistent with the current political orthodoxy. – House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert [...]

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you can’t laugh at yourself you’re missing the biggest joke of your life.”
Anonymous