When you can do the things I can, but you don’t, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you.

Captain America: Civil War

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Rome says we must, the Reformed say we must not, we say neither and do both.

Rechtgläubig der Anti-Schwärmer on Christian Forums

We love change to pieces, change is awesome—when we’re the ones doing it. As soon as change is something that is coming from outside of us, it becomes untrusworthy. It threatens what we think of as the familiar.

Benno Rice, “The Tragedy of systemd”

Yacht, “Plastic Soul”

James Herriot, “All Things Bright and Beautiful”

As I watched him working under the shadowless lamp with the white tiled walls around him and the rows of instruments gleaming by his side it came to me with a rush of mixed emotions that this was what I had always wanted to do myself. My dreams when I had first decided on veterinary work had been precisely of this. Yet here I was, a somewhat shaggy cow doctor; or perhaps more correctly a farm physician, but certainly something very different. The scene before me was a far cry from my routine of kicks and buffets, of muck and sweat. And yet I had no regrets; the life which had been forced on me by circumstances had turned out to be a thing of magical fulfillment. It came to me with a flooding certainty that I would rather spend my days driving over the unfenced roads of the high country than stooping over that operating table.

And anyway I couldn’t have been a Bennett. I don’t think I could have matched his technique and this whole set up was eloquent of a lot of things like business sense, foresight and driving ambition which I just didn’t possess.

The past is written, but the future is left for us to write, and we have powerful tools: openness, optimism and the spirit of curiousity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer.

Star Trek: Picard, “Broken Pieces”

Hanging cocktail bar from Uncommon Goods

Sifl and Olly, “Crescent Fresh”

I’m just a chick, so answer me quick.
I love Jethro Tull’s song “Thick as a Brick”,
But is he crescent fresh?
Please, I’m so distressed!

Tull-ity-toot his flute-ity-flute
Though it seems un-cress, he rocks with the best,
So, yes, he’s crescent fresh!
Aqualung, my friend!

Charlotte Martin, “Wild Horses”