“Endless Crucifixion”

“Just as there is nothing more boring than boredom, nothing more exciting than excitement, nothing more lovable than love or hateful than hatred, so is there nothing that arouses interest so much as interest. Interesting people are interested people, and an enthusiasm—be it as thankless as birdwatching or as bizarre as philately—marks out the enthusiast as a source of curious learning and a person with a mind that glows.”

~ Roger Scruton, On Hunting (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)

Dust storm blankets parts of NSW after cold front

A cold front has moved across the state on Saturday whipping up dust and leaving some stunning images.

Sometimes you only notice things when seeing from a different angle

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‘Massive Reduction’: US, Canada Have Lost 3 Billion Birds Since 1970, Study Finds Sputnik (Kevin W)

The Crisis for Birds Is a Crisis for Us AllNew York Times. Resilc: “Big falloff in my Vermont pasture.” Moi: Now that I think of it, fewer crows in Maine in the last two years…and they are omnivores and even eat carrion.

Webster Adds Gender-Neutral Pronouns to Dictionary | Time

This would seem to have some bearing in this:  How identity politics drove the world mad.

As Mencken said, “There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.” Or, as George Orwell put it, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

Greek Poet Nanos Valaoritis Crucified by Time

September 16, 2019 by Jan Herman Leave a Comment

Nanos Valaoritis has died. He was 98.

Read one of his poems: “Endless Crucifixion”

Nanos Valaoritis: July 5, 1921 – September 13, 2019