It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan

The most important thing you will ever do in your life is learn to embrace your unique, honest self. A boundless, infinitely populated universe and there is nothing else here quite like you. This is your power. All those things that make you strange and different also make you irreplaceable. Beau Taplin

It takes some, though very little, effort to live an ethical and fulfilling life grounded in reason and humanity. We can do it.

Just be yourself. As long as you are a good person the others will adjust to you.

BY KENNETH REXROTH Somebody has given my Baby daughter a box of Old poker chips to play with. Today she hands me one while I am sitting with my tired Brain at my desk. It is red. On it is a picture of An elk’s head and the letters B.P.O.E.—a chip from A small town … Continue reading Proust’s Madeleine