Ocean waves and salty air 🌊Starry skies ✨️Finding magic of the night 🌙 Is where I find serenity 💞
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“The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Its warmth fills our veins, its light fills our hearts—let us be grateful for each morning’s golden embrace.”
John Muir #quote
On this day in 1872, German gold miner Bernhardt Holtermann discovered the Holtermann Nugget in New South Wales, Australia, one of the largest single specimens of gold ever found. It was 59 inches long, weighed 630 pounds, and contained an estimated 5000 ounces of gold. Strictly
“The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”
— Edmund Burke
British Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War (1781); John Jay becomes first US chief justice (1789); Actor and director Jon Favreau born (1966); Black Monday stock market crash; Dow Jones drops 22.6% in one day (1987). #History
Even when we are in the thick muddiness of our pain, despair, and tenderness, we can grow through it as long as we are alive and present enough to bear witness.
ALEX ELLE #quote
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. A sunrise, unexpected or not, is nature’s quiet way of saying, ‘Here is another chance.’”
Rachel Carson #quote
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"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
—Stubb in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"
"Moby-Dick" first published (1851); US formally takes possession of Alaska from Russia (1867); inventor Thomas Edison dies (1931); astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conduct first all-female spacewalk (2019); former Secretary of State Colin Powell dies (2021).
Gratefulness is the buffer that keeps hope from falling into despair.
JOE PRIMO #quote
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
~ Truman Capote #quote
On this day in 1950, Connie Mack, an American baseball player, manager, and team owner, retired as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics after 50 years. The longest-serving manager in Major League Baseball history, he holds records for wins (3,731), losses (3,948), and
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer