a familiar poem with wisdom unfamiliar

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Cirrcuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---

(dedicated to Owen)

its a difficult time to be human

"...When does the fading consciousness of someone dying of alzheimers end completely? When does consciousness begin in the developing human embryo or fetus? The simplest assumption is that it never begins or ends but only transforms as the structure of the brain and nervous system are transformed."

this is probably an important lesson

good vibes and a little persistence are arguably more important than style

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if you dance it they will come

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Black Men Ski

humanity itself should be always more vivid

"...the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things are more valuable than extraordinary things; nay, they are more extraordinary. Man is something more awful than men; something more strange. The sense of the miracle of humanity itself should be always more vivid to us than any marvels of power, intellect, art, or civilization. The mere man on two legs, as such, should be felt as something more heartbreaking than any music and more starling than any caricature. Death is more tragic even than death by starvation. Having a nose is more comic even than having a Norman nose." -- From "Orthodoxy" by G. K. Chesterton