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Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows Concrete Blonde Everybody Knows. 1990 single charting at #20 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in September 1990. A cover version of the Leonard...

So true.

"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

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John Coltrane Draws a
Picture Illustrating the
Mathematics of Music

The “Coltrane Circle,” which resembles what any musician will recognize as the “Circle of Fifths,” but incorporates Coltrane’s own innovations. Coltrane gave the drawing to saxophonist and professor Yusef Lateef in 1967, who included it in his seminal text, Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns.
Lateef sees Coltrane’s music as a “spiritual journey”.
Musician and blogger Roel Hollander notes, “Thelonious Monk once said ‘All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.’ Musicians like John Coltrane though have been very much aware of the mathematics of music and consciously applied it to his works.”

When you live on the edge of a pond in rural Maine and learn that a member of your community is in dire need of good coffee, what do you do? If you're Jane Chandler, you jump in your kayak and paddle those cases of Love Buzz right over to your friend in need. Jane and her husband Jim live year round on the edge of Bryant Pond, near Bethel, Maine. Jane is the fair trade coordinator for her church and usually delivers the members’ Equal Exchange coffee orders by car or has folks pick them up from her house; but she keeps the kayak tied to the dock for caffeine emergencies. You’re the best, Jane 🫶

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This is true!

QOTD: "The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting."
-Attr. to William K. Wolfrum and Jamais Cascio among others.
* Please confine comments to the quote, not to who said it first!

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Bravo.

When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike was prepared to cut the terms of Felix's endorsement by as much as 70% due to the pregnancy and told her to “know your place and just run.”

More on Allyson:
https://www.cdc.gov/hearher/allysonfelix/index.html

Amid all of this, she was forced to have an emergency c-section seven months into her pregnancy because of a potentially life-threatening condition and her baby had to live for more than a month in the NICU. But two years later she’s qualified for her fifth Olympics with her daughter watching.

Felix dropped Nike and created her own brand of running shoes, the Saysh One. She is currently running in the Olympics in Japan wearing them under the banner “I Know My Place”.

With 11 medals now, she passed Carl Lewis this summer for the most track and field medals by an American in history!

"I used my voice and built this company for you. So that you never have to train at 4:30am while you're 5 months pregnant to hide your pregnancy from your sponsor.”

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A stunning breakthrough..... not.

I did not know most of these.

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45 Funny Vet Clinic Signs That Will Brighten Up Anyone Having a pet is a fantastic experience, but do you know the scary part of having an animal? It is taking the pet to the vet. Like many of us, they are also afraid of visiting doctors. They cannot express their feelings with words as we do. But, the Carroll County Veterinary Clinic in Westminster, [....

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By Wayno & Dan Piraro, two greats!! Bizarro.com.

For real!😀

Yeah... feel that... 😂

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You tell 'em, pupper.

Credit: Liz Climo

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Things to Ponder

Incredible. I totally cried.

https://youtu.be/jxiluPSmAF8

Both Sides Now from Joni Jam at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival Recorded live at Newport Folk Festival by SöPa Productionswww.sopaproductions.com

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Thank you to John Atkinson of www.wronghands1.com

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