“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

Walt responded thoughtfully,

“Produce great Persons, the rest follows.”

“Silent and amazed even when a little boy, I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements, As contending against some being or influence.

Bucky, matter of factly replied,

“God is a verb, not a noun.”

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“O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all
untied and illumin’d!
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
To be absolv’d from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and
you from yours!
To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
To have the gag remov’d from one’s mouth!
To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.

Bucky replied thoughtfully,

“I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true”

“I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame,
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying,
neglected, gaunt, desperate,
I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer
of young women,
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be
hid, I see these sights on the earth,
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and
prisoners,
I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who
shall be kill’d to preserve the lives of the rest,
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these – all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.”

Bucky, thinks for a moment and replies,

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

Even your Google searches have a carbon footprint:

A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right” answer. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.

To deliver results to its users quickly, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. As well as producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned – which uses even more energy.

So here’s something funny: According to Google’s search trends database roughly 368,000 people search “carbon footprint” every month.  You get where I’m going with this, right? Even the words “carbon footprint” have a carbon footprint!  Ugh.

As I learn more about things I am interested in their mysteries fade and paradoxes arise.

I am most drawn to the infancy of my ideas, the uncertain period prior to true understanding, when innocent pontifications portend anything to be possible.  Imagining their success and applying unfettered capacity to my ideas have brought enlightenment and established  benchmarks to smash with future diligence.

I suggest that you first seek out the best result of your ideas.  Imagine them succeeding at every turn, and only then, embrace your practiced, pragmatic self to find, or pierce, its holes.

Progress and perseverance are entwined like the sinews in the muscles of those that stay the course.