Divermarv

Coming up for air.

General Musings

  • Fire meet Iron, Iron I’d like to introduce you to Fire, you can join your friends there.

    “When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life… Continue reading

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  • Getting Organized

    “Two minutes, get your sh*t together.” – George Carlin (on what if there were a two minute warning in life.) I have so many aspects to my life, and only a portion of them are organized. My desk is a mess, my house is a mess, and although I do tend to get things done,… Continue reading

  • For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.

    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was” – Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.” – Rainer Maria Rilke “We all want… Continue reading

  • Message In A Bottle

     “…Take me out to the black. Tell ’em I ain’t comin’ back. Burn the land And boil the sea. You can’t take the sky from me.” – Theme song from Firefly “The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.” – Robert Heinlein “In… Continue reading

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  • Le voyage en France 2011: Chapitre 1

    Paris is always a good idea – The movie “Sabrina” America is my country and Paris is my hometown – Gertrude Stein If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable… Continue reading

  • Surviving the Rip Tides

    “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It… Continue reading

  • Submariner’s Prayer

    http://www.gashbag.com/submarinersprayer.htm In the beginning there was a word; and the word was God.  All else was darkness and void without form. So God created the heavens and the earth. He created the sun and the moon and the stars, so that light may pierce the darkness.  The earth, God divided between the land and the… Continue reading

  • Adios OBL

    “It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. “- Mark Twain “To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” – Samuel Butler “Boy, when… Continue reading

  • A Real Deal Explanation of the Japanese Nuclear Disaster

    The utter devastation that has been visited on Japan is heart-rending. I fear the death toll will do nothing but rise for the next few weeks. My mind boggles at the damage that is slowly being revealed. I am doing the only thing that I know to do, and that is to donate to the… Continue reading

  • Righteousness in the name…

    Speaking in the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, he argued that religion was a force for good, but its “manipulation” caused divisions and even violence. – Benedict XVI “I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a… Continue reading

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