Otrts #920

 
Humans are caught — in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too — in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last.…
      -- John Steinbeck, in East of Eden


Straight white men—the historical flavor of choice for those who wield power in this country—amount to fewer than 30 percent of Americans.
     -- Onnesha Roychoudhuri, in Act Like the Majority We Already Are
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 “What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.


a new word (for me) – Geländesprung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qUywsabhZU
don’t try this at home!