World Toilet Day is November 19th! Estimated 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation and Bill Gates is attacking this issue nose on by addressing odor. If toilets don’t smell good, people won’t use them. Plain simple. More at FastCoExist. #WECANTWAIT

“Zipline International Inc. has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round to expand its humanitarian delivery drone business in Rwanda, the U.S. and beyond. The startup builds drones and runs delivery services, dropping crucial medical supplies to clinics or hospitals in areas that aren’t accessible by land.” ~ @lorakolodny

Brilliant! Finally, a drone worth flying. More here.

Oh no.
Gustav Klimt’s Kiss on bananas.
Bahaha!
Thank you so much for sending me this!
You brighten my life.

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain’s side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control.

The Sound Of The Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

~ Emily Dickinson

“Focus, focus, focus!”
For a few moments…until…

Bahahaha!

Practice the pause.
Pause before judging. Pause before assuming.
Pause before accusing.
Pause whenever you’re about to react harshly
and you’ll avoid doing and saying things you’ll later regret.

~ Lori Deschene