Author Archives: Jacqueline Ashby

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Socrates

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien from The Fellowship of the Ring

I’m actually torn on the argument. Everything in moderation. Discipline is key!

Learning is fundamentally an act of vulnerability. It is an acknowledgement that what one knows is not sufficient, and that new information and new thinking about that information is needed.

Love this! And it only took me a decade to finally come across his work! Ha!
New Math: Equations for Living by Craig Damrauer

“So last year, I self-diagnosed myself. I thought it was Celiac Disease. And let me tell you how relieved I am to find out it was cancer. You mean I can eat regular pasta again?” ~ Comedian Quincy Jones

Burning the Light premieres Thursday, June 2nd at 10PM on HBO.

#quincyjonescomedian #fightcancer

Climbing with the headmaster this afternoon.

“No one, not even a ‘friend,’ can make us better. But it is a great happiness in life to meet a person of quite different construction, different bent, completely dissimilar views who, while always remaining himself and in no wise echoing us nor currying favor with us (as sometimes happens) and not trying to insinuate his soul (and an insincere soul at that!) into our psyche, into our muddle, into our tangle, would stand as a firm wall, as a check to our follies and our irrationalities, which every human being has. Friendship lies in contradiction and not in agreement!”

Note to a letter of Strakhov dated January 5, 1890, in his book Literary Exiles. Via brainpickings.