Sed si sapis, omnia humana condicione metire; simul et quod gaudes et quod times, contrahe. Est autem tanti nihil diu gaudere, ne quid diu timeas.

- Seneca

Yet, if you are wise, measure everything by the human condition. Keep both what you fear and what you take joy in reasonable. Truly, don’t take joy in anything too long so that you may not fear too long either.

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So I used to be an archaeologist and some days that meant my job was to weigh and measure rocks. Well, one particular workday 12 years ago, I couldn't stop giggling because I had watched A Knight's Tale the evening prior... And during my lunch break I made this gem:

I am someone who needs to adjust to everything. A few steps forward, a few back—that’s me. That has always been me.

Delia Ephron, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir (Little, Brown and Company. April 12, 2022) 

YUMMY

"Life is a journey, and every step you take brings you closer to your dreams."

"Success is not measured by how many times you fall, but by how many times you get back up."

"In the midst of chaos and uncertainty, never forget that hope and opportunity still exist."

Tumbleweed needs everyone to know that I am his most cruel and heartless mother for decreasing the amount of food he gets due to him gaining a third again his body weight over the last year no that is not all fur Tumbleweed you are shaped like a pregnant sheep!

He has spent much of the day stomping from room to room while yelling his immense displeasure.

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.” – Louis Kahn, American architect

Gift of Time

You can always regain what was lost, reclaim what was taken, and recapture a moment, but not time. You can spend time on an Iphone but trust me it won’t reward you with anything as precious as time. It can’t be frivolously spent on matters of little consequence for when it elapses nothing on earth can buy it back. Time is a majestic picture; a mosaic of historical events; and pixels of stories,…

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people trying to insist a fandom is tiny when it /only/ has a few thousand works on ao3 meanwhile my current fandom is a sixteen book series and has several hundred fewer works than goncharov, a movie that, and i cannot stress this enough, doesn’t even exist

Word of The Hour: measured

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The way they’re holding back the first “seaweed brain” like it’s a bass drop bc they know it is going to irreparably alter all of our brains forever

2023 JUNE 26 Monday

"Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you."

~ Matthew 7:1b-2