Wean ourselves of that spiritual narcissism

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility

Mister Rogers defending public television before the U.S. Senate.




Fox & Friends: "Now all these kids are growing up realizing, Mr Rogers lied to me! I'm not special!"
"These kids feel entitled just for being them...why doesn't he say, there's a lot of room for improvement?"

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy." - Milan Kundera

This week marked the opening of dolphin hunting season in Japan. During the six-month season, thousands of dolphins are corralled into narrow coves and captured for sale to aquariums or amusement parks. Those not captured are killed for meat. But this year, something different happened.

After Taiji's annual dolphin hunt was covertly filmed for a documentary, the little fishing village has suddenly found itself at the uncomfortable center of a media spotlight.

Police and fishermen in Taiji don't allow filming of the hunt, part of the villagers' everyday lives. But a team of activists and filmmakers went undercover to shoot the footage, telling their story in the 2009 documentary, The Cove.

Since its release, the documentary — which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival — has spurred an international outcry. In one case, Taiji's sister city — Broome in Western Australia — suspended its relationship with Taiji for as long as dolphins continue to be killed.

This week, activist and Cove star Ric O'Barry went back to Taiji for opening day of dolphin season. He was accompanied by a group of international journalists.

But this time, he didn't see any dolphins being killed. He didn't even see fishermen on the water.

That day, he blogged, "Today is a good day for dolphins."

NPR | Hunters Pass on Opening Day of Dolphin Season

"Wisdom tells me that I am Nothing. Love tells me that I am everything. Between the two my life flows." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

For two years (1985-1987), John Hughes and I wrote letters back and forth. He told me - in long hand black felt tip pen on yellow legal paper - about life on a film set and about his family. I told him about boys, my relationship with my parents and things that happened to me in school. [...]

"I can't tell you how much I like your comments about my movies. Nor can I tell you how helpful they are to me for future projects. I listen. Not to Hollywood. I listen to you. I make these movies for you. Really. No lie. There's a difference I think you understand."

We'll Know When We Get There | Sincerely, John Hughes

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions

Galle is a crater on Mars. It is located on the eastern rim of the huge impact basin Argyre Planitia. It is named after the astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
Galle is often known as the "happy face crater" because the illusion of a smiley is created by a semicircular mountain range and two smaller craters within the main crater. [...]
As the smiley is a key motif in the comic book Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the crater was used as a story location after the coincidence was noted by Gibbons. According to Gibbons, the similarity "was almost too good to be true. I worried that if we put it in, people would never believe it.

Wikipedia | Galle