//End of year situations tend to make one reflect… so this morning I sat with my coffee and spent some time pondering over the past year, and came to the conclusion that, all in all, I am living my best life. I am doing alright. I was helpful to people, and tried not to hurt anyone. I looked after myself and others. I am able to forgive myself, and hold no grudges against anyone.
I am doing alright. Thanks world.
//This awesome history map was published in 1931 and visualises 4000 years of global power. Absolutely amazing stuff! From Visualcapitalist
//Merry new hats everyone 
//George Michael “As”
(feat. Mary J Blige)
(an ode to my best friends who just married each other)
(despite my best efforts to talk them out of it 😉
Continue reading “Love”
//My balcony is a #Lorikeet flyby 😉
//When you know the weekend is just around the corner 😉 <3
via http://i.imgur.com/A5QsoYv.jpg
//If you don’t do anything else today, do this:
//The Chart of Cosmic Exploration
Every space exploration mission that has left Earth’s orbit!
Get a copy here popchartlab.com/products/the-chart-of-cosmic-exploration 🙂
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I've never met … #innerstrength #mindfulness pic.twitter.com/ZQR7t8mtL5
— Mindfulness Wellness (@911well) November 28, 2015
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Ejiri in the Suruga province
by Katsushika Hokusai
completion date c. 1832
//a beautiful summer 🙂
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“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.”
Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
//Botany-ma-bay you beautiful thang 😉
//Sydney you beauty
//About Ayn Rand
While in high school, she determined that she was an atheist and that she valued reason above any other human virtue.
Ayn called her philosophy “Objectivism”, describing its essence as “the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” She considered Objectivism a systematic philosophy and laid out positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics.
What an utterly inspiring woman.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
//SHOULD YOU CALL THAT MEETING?
by Wendy MacNaughton
Everyone benefits when great minds meet, yet most office meetings are anything but great. How can we free up our colleagues to do more work that matters?
Step one: Believe that it’s possible. Step two: Think before you call that meeting.
//Good old Goethe – His Theory of Colours by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a book about the poet’s views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans. Published in 1810, it contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration.
The Theory of Colours stands as an absorbing account of the philosophy and artistic experience of colour, bridging the intuitive and the visceral in a way that, more than two hundred years later, continues to intrigue.
On Wikipedia is more about it, a quite interesting read
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours
Philipp Otto Runge was a Romantic German romantic painter and draughtsman. In 1803, on a visit to Weimar, Runge unexpectedly met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the two formed a friendship based on their common interests in color and art. Runge’s interest in color was the natural result of his work as a painter and of having an enquiring mind.
He arrived at the concept of the color sphere sometime in 1807 by expanding the hue circle into a sphere, with white and black forming the two opposing poles.
//Saturday in the Blue Mountains – glorious day 🙂
//just gotta love him :*
//Watch it. So worth the time.
Finally – a policy covering both humanity AND shareholders.
(and if you are not watching this you are being silly 😉 )