Carbon Neutral

Climate change is all around
Creeping on us, makes no sound
Always something else to do
The cars, the wars, a bank or two

The answer: easy! has been found!
Leave that carbon in the ground.
Can we resist these fuels so useful?
And live each day carbon neutral?

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Fusion reactors

We do not yet have (nuclear) fusion reactors. One day, quite soon, we may.

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Cosmos (1980), Episode 8, aired 19801126

Mumblety-peg

For work, if you love that best... For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure... For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.

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Cheaper By The Dozen (1948)

In reply to the question “But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?”

The purpose of human life

The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it,Is to love whoever is around to be loved

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In Cat's Cradle 

20250730 Tsunami (?) At Drayton Harbor

2025-07-29 an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, triggered tsunami warnings covering much of the Pacific Ocean, including Blaine, WA where I live on Drayton Harbor.  The NOAA US Tsunami warning system estimated the first wave would reach Bellingham, WA (25 miles south) at 01:10am PST on 2025-07-30 with a maximum height of less than 1 foot. 

I sat in my front yard looking out over Drayton Harbor, towards White Rock, BC and took videos in case there was anything to see. The harbor was very calm with stretched out reflections of shore lights. In the shots below note particularly the bright tower near the center, the Oceana PARC building in White Rock,  BC some 5.5 miles from my viewing spot. I estimated the tsunami would arrive at Blaine some 16 minutes after Bellingham. 

What I saw and recorded was a gradual disappearance and then return of the reflection of lights in Drayton Harbor, which I can only suppose is somehow due to the tsunami.

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20250730 Tsunami (?) At Drayton Harbor

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Tolstoy on Kindness

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful.

You should respond with kindness toward evil done to you, and you will destroy in an evil person that pleasure which he derives from evil.

Kindness is for your soul as health is for your body: you do not notice it when you have it.

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

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Be not too serious nor too frivolous

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

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The Maxims of Ptahhotep, 25, Twenty-fourth century B.C.E

Dead and stupid

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

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