"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspective, and Virginia Woolf captures the sentiment perfectly in this quotation from her novel Night and...
"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle, Rhetoric When I was a freshman in college, I had a small role in a production of an insane play called Marat/Sade. On closing night, as the cast was loading out of the church basement,...
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.” - H. G. Wells A few weeks ago, NASA announced that my favorite piece of tech, the James Webb Space Telescope, peered at a star...
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;" - John Keats To Autumn by John Keats is one of those poetic treasures that suffers from its own success. You know it so well that you can’t...
"I wonder what the machines will think." - Philip K. Dick Sometimes, surprisingly reasonable advice can be gleaned from a paranoid dystopian metacog who was struck by a laser beam of pure intelligence from the “Vast Active Living Information System.”...
For most folks, New Year’s Eve is a time for reflection on the past year - or perhaps just a time to wipe the past year from your memory with a big bottle of your favorite hooch. But for those...
