"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."

Homer

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 "To be right because the facts are on your side is one thing, to be right because it is your very nature is another."
Christopher Hitchens

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 “Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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 "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
Simone de Beauvoir

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 A Dear friend shared this information and is a great read. When The Levee Breaks is a song written by Memphis Minnie in 1929. Here is the article.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/led-zeppelin-memphis-minnie-when-the-levee-breaks 

 Not as bad as I hoped but the week is young.
Truth Social swirling around the basin.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-media-stock-tanks-as-new-filing-reveals-heavy-losses-greater-risks-on-trumps-involvement-164313322.html 

 "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it."
Thomas Huxley

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 “It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
Malcolm X

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 Terence McKenna, a renowned American ethnobotanist and philosopher, once said, 
“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”

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 “I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.”
― Wendell Berry

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 “Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...”
― Terry Pratchett

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 “There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

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 “Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

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 What a week. Mastodon 4.2 was installed last night, works well. I would only change the "Live feeds" default to all. And after having my Linux only computer a week; I upgraded to version 22.04 of Ubuntu. Lol, glad I figured out how to connect a wifi usb hub earlier. 

 “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts.”
― Henri Poincaré, Science and Method

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 “We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

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