Emily on Life

A Prayer to the Universe for When I’m Caught Up in My Own Bullshit
May I remember that I am here on an Earth ride-along for what amounts to a fraction of a second in the vastness of time, and my life is Too short and unprecedented to waste it on anything or anyone that reduces it to a weight on my shoulders or a mistake to correct. There is much that is out of my control, but I get to decide where my energy goes. There is freedom in that.
—Emily McDowell (Instagram: @EmilyOnLife)

Emily McDowell (Instagram, web site where she sells her thoughts on cards, pins, mugs, etc.) is a writer and illustrator. I was particularly taken with this one. (Background image: a portion of the Hubble Deep Field: the telescope was pointed at a tiny and “empty” portion of space for a long exposure, which revealed nearly 3,000 previously unknown galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known.)

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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.


Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!

Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc

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