Category: Curated

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My friend RJ is always good for an epiphany or two every time we talk. Yesterday he introduced me to Edith Eva Eger, author of The Choice. She says:

I am Dr. Edith Eva Eger. Since my childhood days in Hungary, friends and family have called me Edie. We lived a ‘normal life’, a happy life, uneventful in its quiet bliss. Then it was slowly, yet suddenly, all taken away, altering the course of my life forever.

Edith Eva Eger

Hear her talk about her choice…

Now that you’ve been introduced to Edith, how will you respond?

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Joshua Chamberlain: The Deciding Moment

Disregard the religiosity at the end if you will, but this video makes an interesting point. If Joshua Chamberlain were not the man he was would the world be the same? i.e. could Hitler have won, etc.?

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Burn The Ships

A song for new beginnings…

The song is based on this legend:

There are differing perceptions about what happened to Hernán Cortés’s ships. Some think that he burned the vessels, and others believe he beached them.[10] The notion that he burned his ships did not become accepted until 250 years later.[10] However, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, while attending an expedition with Cortés, gives reason to believe that Cortés ran them ashore.[10] In a letter to King Charles, Cortés states that his ships were incapable of sailing, telling his men the reason was shipworm.[10] However, after establishing the town of Vera Cruz, five Aztec emissaries arrived which made Cortés anxious to visit Tenochtitlán.[11] Therefore, he destroyed all of his ships but one, which he sent back to Spain for King Charles.[10] The fear of his men returning to Cuba, rather than embarking on the journey to the Aztec Empire, made him decide to demolish his ships.[12] They no longer had an option but to accompany him on this journey. This decision brought about severe consequences because Cortés had trapped himself in Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s
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The Gettysburg Cyclorama 360º from the American Battlefield Trust

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I saw Paul in concert in Green Bay, WI, earlier this year. I have been a fan all my life but had never seen him in person. When he hit that classic chord from Hard Day’s Night to open the concert, I wept. Just found this little gem. Enjoy…

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Paul McCartney THE BEST OF/Funny moments

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I <3 the @owlkitty Instagram account!

I like black cats and I cannot lie! Here are some of her greatest hits:

The human owned by owlkitty is a videographer who apparently has too much time on his hands…

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Bonus…

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The Civil War Animated Map

See the entire Civil War unfold, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, on our animated map, produced by Wide Awake Films in partnership with the American Battlefield Trust.

Source: The Civil War Animated Map

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Through not observing what is in the mind of another, a man has rarely been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader (Harris Classics) (p. 22). Kindle Edition.

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I watched this woman be lowered into the ground yesterday. Follow the link for her story…

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The coming death of just about every rock legend

“On top of the icons who died horribly young decades ago — Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon — there’s the litany of legends felled by illness, drugs, and just plain old age in more recent years: George Harrison, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty.

Those losses have been painful. But it’s nothing compared with the tidal wave of obituaries to come. The grief and nostalgia will wash over us all. Yes, the Boomers left alive will take it hardest — these were their heroes and generational compatriots. But rock remained the biggest game in town through the 1990s, which implicates GenXers like myself, no less than plenty of millennials. All of which means there’s going to be an awful lot of mourning going on.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).”

On rock music’s losing battle with mortality: The coming death of just about every rock legend

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Alli Gerkman “I Had Been Bitten, Cancer Was Like being Bitten” at Ignite Boulder 29

I didn’t know this woman, but my partner does. She passed this week leaving a huge hole in the planet. Think about this and then maybe do something kind for someone you love or?

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