Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? If you don’t know where you’re going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter (16 September 1919 –1990) the Canadian educator and author who coined the term ‘hierarchiology’ as the social science concerned with the basic principles of hierarchically organised… Read More Goals
Un bellissimo articolo di LAMPMAGICIAN dal titolo “Without Lou. there would be no Zarathustra”, che potete leggere qui: https://lampmagician.wordpress.com/2020/09/12/without-lou-there-would-be-no-zarathustra/, mi ha riportato alla mente questo mio vecchio divertissement: LOULo conoscevo da solo due giorniquando mi disse “Sposami”“No- risposi- non voglio sentirmi ingabbiatain un rapporto di coppia”.Talmente improvvisa venne la domanda:“E se fossimo in tre?”che finii… Read More Lou
Amy Jade Winehouse was born in London on 14 September 1983: she would be thirty-seven today. Her second and final album, “Back to Black”, released in 2006 was acclaimed by music critics, who admired her song writing and poignant singing style. It features the song “Rehab”, which was later named the ‘Best Song of 2007’… Read More Amy Winehouse
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the Canadian athlete and humanitarian Terry Fox. Terrance Stanley Fox (1958 -1981), after losing his right leg owing to bone cancer, ran 3,339 miles to raise money for research. He started on 12 April 1980, when he dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic at Cape Spear, and ran close to… Read More The Marathon of Hope
Singer, songwriter Barry Eugene Carter, better known by his stage name Barry White, was born on 12 September 1944 in Galveston, Texas. His successful career spanned five decades, and made him a star of the disco era.He died of kidney failure caused by hypertension in 2003, aged 58. One of his most romantic songs was:… Read More Barry White
On 11 September 1847 Stephen Foster‘s best-known song, “Oh! Susanna” – which was to become an anthem of the California Gold Rush – was first performed by a local quintet in a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.At the time Foster (1826–1864), later known as “the father of American music”, was only 21 and was working as… Read More Oh! Susanna
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos” “Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy… Read More Stephen Jay Gould and Evolutionary Progress
Originally posted on Rebecca's Light Scrive:
“Abbi cura di te” mi ha augurato Luisa, la cara Luisa, con la sua premura, gentilezza, sensibilità, con il suo affetto. La ringrazio di vero cuore. Ho sempre ragionato sulla bellezza di alcune parole o espressioni, e devo dire che “Abbi cura di te” è l’espressione, nella lingua…
At first I was afraidI was petrifiedKept thinking I could never livewithout you by my sideBut then I spent so many nightsthinking how you did me wrongAnd I grew strongAnd I learned how to get along And so you’re backfrom outer spaceI just walked in to find you herewith that sad look upon your faceI… Read More 🎶 I Will Survive 🎶
“We all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”(Sappiamo bene che l’autostima deriva da ciò che tu pensi di te stesso e non da ciò che pensano gli altri.) Gloria Gaynor was born on 7 September 1943 in Newark, New Jersey. Her real name is… Read More Gloria Gaynor & Self-esteem
