Thinks I find along the way
MissPronouncer is a halfway decent audio resource for learning how to pronounce names of Wisconsin places and people. Source: MissPronouncer: A Wisconsin pronunciation guide
The Gomers got an idea from the popular song, “I’ve Been Everywhere,” substituting cities in that frequently-covered song with Wisconsin places. The Madison-based group calls their version “I Been Over Dere.” With over 100 Wisconsin cities mentioned in the lyrics, can you find your hometown?:
You ruin your chance at love by believing that you aren’t worthy of love. You put yourself out there, you mingle with new people, and you say and do all the right thing. You’re polished, a great conversationalist, and there is an aura of confidence around you. Yet deep within you, you don’t…
via How To Ruin Your Chance At Finding Love — Thought Catalog
In 1992, the people of Queensland, Australia were posed the following question: “Are you in favour of daylight saving?” The answers would decide the future of time in the state. Queensland, which didn’t have daylight savings time (as it is often called in the US and Canada), had just undergone a three-year trial of pushing…
Here’s a great Sunday Read from David Amerland.
Stephen Hawking has moved up the deadline for when humanity has to find a new home — from 1,000 years to just 100.
Source: Stephen Hawking now says humanity has only about 100 years to escape Earth
What if you knew you’d be the last
to touch someone?
If you were taking tickets, for example,
at the theater, tearing them,
giving back the ragged stubs,
you might take care to touch that palm,
brush your fingertips
along the life line’s crease.
When a man pulls his wheeled suitcase
too slowly through the airport, when
the car in front of me doesn’t signal,
when the clerk at the pharmacy
won’t say Thank you, I don’t remember
they’re going to die.
A friend told me she’d been with her aunt.
They’d just had lunch and the waiter,
a young gay man with plum black eyes,
joked as he served the coffee, kissed
her aunt’s powdered cheek when they left.
Then they walked half a block and her aunt
dropped dead on the sidewalk.
How close does the dragon’s spume
have to come? How wide does the crack
in heaven have to split?
What would people look like
if we could see them as they are,
soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
reckless, pinned against time?
Source: http://www.ellenbass.com/books/the-human-line/if-you-knew/
You’re welcome! Source: 7 Things to Do on Sunday to Make the Rest of the Week a Lot Easier
Use your senses to get the scientifically-proven benefits of spending time among trees.
Source: Japanese “forest medicine” is the science of using nature to heal yourself—wherever you are
Source: Luke 12, New International Version (NIV) | Chapter 12 | The Bible App | Bible.com
From Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” to Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” these are the best original movie songs of all time.
Did Billy Graham really visit with the queen of England and wield some influence over her? How accurate is Netflix’s portrayal?
Source: Was Billy Graham really friends with Queen Elizabeth, like depicted in ‘The Crown’?
Billy Graham. Nelson Mandela. Mother Theresa. Pope John Paul II. Their faces form a Mount Rushmore of faith. Their legacies will be long cherished.
Source: Max Lucado: Farewell, Billy Graham, the world is better because you were in it
It was common amongst my friends from Wheaton College [Alma Mater of Billy Graham] to impersonate him by saying “I was talking to the Queen the other day and I says Queen, what are we to do?” I did not know until this last year’s episode of The Crown about the ‘special friendship’ that existed between Billy and Queen Elizabeth…
Anyone who thinks this is cute or clever has not seen the Metalhead episode of Netflix’s Black Mirror…
Here is a wonderful image from Vienna taken by my friend Monika Schmidt. Visit her new blog at http://monischmidt.com
Bright, shiny objects! 
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