"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Friday, February 20, 2004
This is True...
Yeah, I'm on a blog maintenance binge. Scroll down and you will see that I've added a daily feed from the "This is True" website. That site has consistently been among the funniest on the net, and they just started their feed so now you have yet another reason to visit us every day.
Bang the Drum Slowly Tax collectors in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India, tired of citizens not paying their property taxes, have “hired bands of drummers,” says municipal commissioner T.S.R. Anjaneyulu. “They put up a spectacle outside the houses of defaulters, draw them out and explain their dues to them and the need to clear it at the earliest. They don’t stop [drumming] until people agree to clear the dues.” In the first week of the new program, 18 percent of the tax backlog has been cleared. (Calcutta Telegraph) ...Leaving the majority to face the music. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
