Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10
Not ironic.
(Source: youtube.com)
Veterans Coming Home
To their children…
and to dogs.
Happy veterans day. More at Mental Floss. (via Alex)
Brothers
Now 95, Westchester Big Brother Treasures Friendship
Chester Ross, left, smiles at Colby Ross Loughran as his father, David Loughran, holds him. Ross was 65 in 1979 when he became a “Big Brother” to David Loughran and began a relationship that would span 30 years. Ross put Loughran through college, guided his career and got to be best man, at age 90, at Loughran’s wedding. Continued here.
NoDoomGloom
I originally created a small number of No Doom & Gloom stickers as a simple reminder to keep a positive attitude during these challenging times. With an overwhelming positive reaction from our customers, the idea has evolved into a campaign to encourage the media to reduce doom & gloom reporting.
— Dale Condy
Visit http://nodoomgloom.blogspot.com/
The Great Lake of Love that holds the whole world in gear
Like I splained to you before I’m a people worshiper. I think people should worship people. I really do.
I went out looking for God the other day and I couldn’t pin him.
So I figured if I couldn’t find him I’d look for his stash. His Great Lake of Love that holds the whole world in gear. And when I finally found it I had the great pleasure of finding that people were the guardians of it. Dig that. So with my two times two is four, I figured that if people were guarding the stash of love known as God, then when people swing in beauty they become little gods and goddesses.
And I know a couple of them myself personally. I know you do, too. I think people should worship people.
I like to worship somethin’ I can see, somethin’ I can get my hands on, get my brains on.
I don’t know about that Jehovah cat! I can’t reach him. I don’t know, I’m…
Seemed like every time I found myself in a bind I always, uh, nothing mystic came along to help me, some man or some woman stepped up there, and said, “We’ll help you. We’ll do this. We’ll do that.”
That’s the way it looks to me, so, uh, recently on the San Berdoo Freeway I got hung up in an old junker car goin’ to Las Vegas Nevada. Right in the middle of the freeway during the rush hour it conked out.
Car… rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr drivin’ it… Hrrpp… got a weak clutch… whadda ya doin’ let it in… don’t step on it…
Oh, it was a madhouse, like havin’ lunch in the middle of the Indianapolis Speedway.
About three days went by and finally along came God.
There was two of ‘em. There was a big god and a little god.
They didn’t know me from a… froma. But they pushed and they pulled and they tugged and twisted and they yanked and they gave me every possible assistance in the world and finally got me on my way.
Haven’t seen them since.
But I think that people, I hope I haven’t offended anyone’s religious beliefs, but I think, I think that people should worship people.
I really do.
— Lord Buckley
Transcribed by Earl Rivers
Lord Buckley on Wikipedia
November 4, 2008
I found 25 or so people who had made their way in the dark to the marble steps of the memorial and stood silently around a lone transistor radio. On the spot where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, they listened, some crying in the drizzle, as Barack Obama began his address before the Grant Park multitude.
by Matt Mendelsohn via The New York Times
Crown Fountain, Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois
Crown Fountain, located in Millennium Park, is an interactive public fountain in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by artist Jaume Plensa, it opened in July 2004. The fountain consists of a black granite reflecting pool located between a pair of technically sophisticated opposing glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15.2 m) tall and use complicated electronics… Throughout most of the warmer months, water continually cascades down the two sculptures, while water intermittently spouts through a nozzle located on each of the structures’ front faces. The fountain is known for the digital videos of Chicago residents it displays continuously throughout the year.
Image and text from Wikipedia. Via Signal vs. Noise.
Central Washington offers the ultimate act of sportsmanship
Western Oregon senior Sara Tucholsky had never hit a home run in her career. Central Washington senior Mallory Holtman was already her school’s career leader in them. But when a twist of fate and a torn knee ligament brought them face to face with each other and face to face with the end of their playing days, they combined on a home run trot that celebrated the collective human spirit far more than individual athletic achievement.
Full story at ESPN
