REFLECTIONS

I tried doing this several years ago and just could not keep up with it.  Maybe I just lost interest.  My guess is that I started a 30 day project then learned that it was not for me.  It was a mistake. It was something I really did not want to do. Even so, I felt like I had failed at it.  This discouragement led me to just drop the whole 30-Day thing. Here's the video about trying something new for 30 days: For my next attempt I'll try to: 1. Give the project a few days to try out.  If I feel it's worthwhile I'll continue.  Otherwise I'll choose some other goal. There's no shame in stopping a goal that's a mistake.  If I'm going the wrong way there's no shame in correcting course.  (As an example I need about 8 hours of sleep.  If I try to get by on less I'll feel miserable.  So I'll stop and  just switch to another project.) 2.  The goal must be realistic, not almost impossible to do.  (A bad habit might take longer than

I'd like to share this wonderful yet sad old English ballad that Lynette found on the web.

There are many similarities but I believe there is still time to set things right. Here are some opinions I found from a few articles on the web.  I'll try to condense them and leave a link in case you want to read more. From Salon: 8 striking parallels between the U.S. and the Roman Empire - Salon.com 1 — Staggering Increase in the Cost of Elections, with Dubious Campaign Funding Sources. Our 2012 election reportedly cost $3 billion. All of it was raised from private sources – often creating the appearance, or the reality, that our leaders are beholden to special interest groups. 2 — Politics as the Road to Personal Wealth. “Their focus is therefore not so much on the people who sent them to Washington. Their focus is instead on those who will make them rich.” ( Republic Lost ) 3 — Continuous War: A national state of security arises, distracting attention from domestic challenges with foreign wars. Similar to the late Roman Republic, the US – for the past 100 years

" National Button Day is observed annually on November 16.  Founded in 1938,  the  National Button Society   recognized button collecting as an organized hobby.  Both novice and advanced button collectors celebrate  the enjoyment collecting on this day." Quote from the site: Who knew?  I've never heard about this hobby but it does make sense.  If you can collect coins and stamps, why not buttons?  I don't think I'll start collecting buttons myself though.

I found this video on the Plowing Through Life Blog.  It was on an excellent post about Remembrance Day (Veterans Day in USA). Enjoy the video and visit the blog post: Plowing Through Life: Remembrance Day

"Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the ..."   Wikipedia These videos have very annoying sounds! Please turn down the volume. On this site the author shows some of the patterns he found. Physics demonstrations: Chladni patterns | Skulls in the Stars Watch these two videos for an explanation.