Today’s color is orange. Over the weekend we had a nice sneak peek of summer, eating BBQ steak and orange sweet potato (or kumara as it’s called in New Zealand) on our deck. 📷🌈 #mbmay
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The Micro.blog mini-challenge this week is color-a-day photos. Today: red. As part of wanting to go to the store less at present, we’re trying various food delivery services, including Farmbox Direct. 📷🌈 #mbmay
I have lots of favorite quotes from Heinlein books, but enjoy this one from Time Enough for Love: 💬 #mbmay
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
A quote from Piers Anthony’s Wielding a Red Sword (book four of the Incarnations of Immortality series): 💬 #mbmay
The consequence of one’s actions should be a concern of every person, on the social as well as the legal level.
A longer quote today for 💬 #mbmay from Robert A. Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset, that really resonates with me:
Happiness … lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing.
One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labour mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result.
Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
Another fave Douglas Adams quote: 💬 #mbmay
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
A favorite quote from Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that I say or at least think pretty much every week: 💬 #mbmay
This must be Thursday … I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
A favorite quote from Robert A. Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold: 💬 #mbmay
No one ever does anything but what he wants to do — ‘enjoys’ — within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it’s because I enjoy it more than being stranded.
A favorite quote from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books: 💬 #mbmay
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Actually, I should have gone with perhaps my favorite Star Wars quote: 💬 #mbmay
…you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
— Obi-Wan Kenobi