winslowjunkerSome people are obsessed with their starring roles in this soap opera we’re all part of. I’d encourage them to check out this song. It might make life – theirs AND ours – a little sweeter. What do you think?
“There comes a time in the history of every civilisation when, for the sake of human dignity, men turn their backs on it.” Aubrey Menen, The Ramayana, as told by Aubrey Menen (1954)
Check out the Michael Leunig website. Australian cartoonist and artist. I’ve always thought of him as the kind of guy it’d be fun to live next door to.
Roaming the web for background on Don Quijote, which I’m reading for the first time, I ran across this portrait in a style completely appropriate for that ‘ingenious’ gentleman of La Mancha. Take some time; absorb. And if you care to see more work of this amazing Mexican artist, click on the painting, or try here or here.
“Out of all the things in the world that we try to explain, human behaviour is surely the one that we work hardest at, and the one with which we find most difficulty.
“[You] try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance; . . . you take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. . . . You get them wrong before you [...]
