Message of Ray Bradbury.
"When I was 19 years old I couldn't go to college because I came from a poor family. We had no money, so I went to the library at least. Three days a week I read every possible book. At the age of 27 I have actually completed almost the entire library instead of university. So I got my education in the library and for free. When a person wants something, they will find a way to achieve it.
I would like to remind you one thing:
Humans should never forget that we have been assigned only a very small place on earth, that we live surrounded by nature that can easily take back everything that has ever given to man.
It costs absolutely nothing in her way to one day blow us all off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks. "
Ray Bradbury American writer
Buyer of world's largest whisky bottle revealed
The anonymous buyer of world's largest whisky bottle has been revealed! Viet Nguyen Dinh Tuan added the 5ft 11in tall bottle, known as The Intrepid, to his already impressive whisky and Cognac collection which is currently worth an estimated £158.3m. The bottle contains a staggering 311 litres of 32-year-old Macallan single malt Scotch.
The project was conceived by Daniel Monk of Cask World and Rosewin Holdings, pictured with Mr Viet above, who named it Intrepid in honour of the drive and achievements of 11 of the world's most pioneering explorers. The likes of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Dr Geoff Wilson, and Karen Darke feature on the bottle’s label.
As a seasoned investor in rare spirits, Mr Viet has spent three decades building his collection which already includes the world's largest bottle of Cognac, the world's oldest bottle of whisky (believed to be almost 150 years old), and the world's only complete Macallan Fine & Rare series.
He says he was enticed to acquire The Intrepid for three main reasons: “the fact it's the World's Biggest Bottle, it contains Macallan, and because I was inspired by the record-breaking achievements of the 11 explorers depicted on the bottle's label."
We don’t believe he currently has any plans to try and snorkel in the 311 litres of whisky. Which is definitely not what we would do. Nope. We don’t even know where you would get such an idea…
Never stop walking comfortably in your own shoes. – If you don’t follow the path others want you to follow they might become irritated. Don’t worry about it. Let them be. It’s their problem, not yours. So many people seem to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but have no clue how to lead their own.
Life is less about the harvest we reap, and more about the seeds that we sow.
@lonelytauros August 26 is really good. Thanks for sharing!
@MissAdventurous August 29, the duck 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it!
@CuddleHugs01234 thanks for taking the time to check it out. I went back and reread it myself. Yeah that one was pretty emotional.
A Bob Ross painting has gone on the market for $9.85m—but you can’t buy it.
A Walk in the Woods (1983) was painted during the first episode of the late artist’s TV show, The Joy of Painting, which captivated American audiences over more than 400 episodes between 1983 to 1994.
The price tag the Minneapolis-based gallery has given the work is what they call a “not-for-sale number”. The painting will, however, go on tour.
Indeed, while Ross produced tens of thousands of paintings before his death in 1995, the vast majority of the paintings made for the show remain locked away by those overseeing his intellectual property.
“ Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. ”
~— Mary Oliver
“ Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding. ”
~— Lao Tzu
“ He who comprehends the Darkness in himself to him the Light is near.”
~— C.G. Jung
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
~— Carl Jung
@MissAdventurous I love your quotes
The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive.
They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions--sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear.
Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments--both physical and emotional--unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss--another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly. ~Susan Cain
@MissAdventurous I saw a sleeping bee in a flower today, read your post yesterday, not even knowing it was a thing...and today I see one!
39 years ago on 16th September, 1984, the pilot episode of Miami Vice was aired with a two-hour (including commercials) season premiere called "Brother's Keeper". Sonny Crockett (played by Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (played by Philip Michael Thomas) charged through our TV screens in a Ferrari Daytona Spyder, with guns blazing and pastels poppin’. A new kind of cop show was born - one in which grown men weren’t afraid to pair pastel Ts with white Armani suits, music was an integral part of the storytelling, and pet alligators and gorgeous Ferraris were all within reach of an undercover narcotics officer. For 111 episodes, “Miami Vice” absolutely epitomised the 1980s.
It was visually and indeed, sonically like no other TV show we had ever seen (or heard). One of the most memorable aspects of the show was the music. The Fairlight digital synthesizer, sampler and digital audio workstation (with an eye watering price of £30,000 at the time) and the Roland TR-808 drum machine were king. And from the charged theme of Miami Vice by Jan Hammer, it was clear that the series was scored like a blockbuster film. Roger Daltrey, El Debarge, Devo, Black Uhuru, Jackson Browne, Kate Bush, Meat Loaf, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, The Tubes, Dire Straits, Depeche Mode, The Hooters, Iron Maiden, The Alan Parsons Project, Corey Hart, Glenn Frey, U2, Underworld, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Foreigner, The Police, Ted Nugent, Suicidal Tendencies and Billy Idol were among the artists whose music was licensed by “Miami Vice.”
And who can forget the fashion? White, grey or pastel suits from the likes of Hugo Boss, Nino Cerruti, Gianni Versace and Giorgio Armani, worn with T-shirts, espadrilles (no socks of course!) and jacket sleeves pushed up to expose an audacious yellow-gold Rolex. And beautifully accessorised with a classic pair of Ray Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. It was a great look that fans around the world imitated.
It has to be said, I absolutely loved the 80s. The world of course had its problems and conflicts, but as an analog kid at the time, I guess I was slightly sheltered from it in a way. I was too busy trying to crack the Rubik's cube (removing the stickers always helped!), learning to play Bass, playing music, computer games and Dungeons and Dragons to watch the news or take too much notice of "real life." But it also felt a really positive decade too. Design, fashion, advertising, film making, television and music in particular, hit a really creative sweet spot during that decade.
Right, time to roll up my suit jacket sleeves for a game of Donkey Kong. And a welcome fix of Power Windows.
Danforth & Pape
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. ~Kent M. Keith
(Art: Painting by Sally Storch)
The tormented American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), had a beloved pet cat named Catterina. Edgar Allan Poe's cat often perched on his shoulders while he wrote as if overseeing his work and would remain there, observed a visitor, purring. Poe loved cats. His beloved cat, Catterina, is also said to have to have slept on his wife Virginia's chest to keep her warm when she was bedridden from Tuberculosis.