"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." -- Joe Campbell

R.I.P. Amy Winehouse

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh

Adventure is worthwhile

"I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it."
-- Jim Dale

The American Idea

“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as something higher and greater than the sum of all our private lives. The founders of the magazine valued these things—and they valued the immense amount of effort it takes to preserve them from generation to generation.”

--The Editors of The Atlantic Monthly, 2006


Anyone interested in reading a great collection that vividly illustrates a fascinating portrait of not just American history but also an indication of where America is headed in the future should pick up Robert Vare’s anthology aptly titled, The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly. It won’t disappoint. Trust me.