With cheap disposable crud everywhere, it's so gratifying to fix broken things.

Hey fun-loving people, which of these dice styles look like they would be maximum fun, the puzzle cube or a solid wood look?

Scientists have developed a pill that tastes like wine and has no alcohol. It’s called a grape.

When Benjamin Franklin walked out of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin's answer was profound: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now it is our turn to keep it. Election Day is in one week. Vote.

The world will never go round if our incentives come exclusively from external sources. The motivation that comes from within, from our own will, is far more powerful than anything imposed from the outside. No one can truly manipulate someone who is self-motivated, acts selflessly and understands that the good they do for themselves will ultimately shine through and benefit others.

Let’s gooooo!!! 🇺🇸

The secret wealth of fallen things

Shakespeare scholars: “Shakespeare was just an ordinary man, and a secular playwright” Me: “Shakespeare was an extraordinary man whose works were understood by his own contemporaries as religious in nature” My evidence: Shakespeare and his family occupy the most prestigious burial location inside Holy Trinity Church, and their graves have remained essentially undisturbed for more than 400 years—a tremendous honor and a recognition of his piety.

My basic message is hope. It has always been. Genius doesn't matter if you're cynical. Even God's intervention is useless if you lack the hope to recognize the divine.

From Longwood Gardens, just outside of Philly

Strasbourg Cathedral is a remarkable record of how architecture evolved across generations. Construction of the present cathedral developed from earlier Romanesque work into a predominantly Gothic masterpiece. Work on the western façade began in 1277, and its famous openwork spire was completed in 1439, reaching 142 metres. What fascinates me most is the contrast between the massive stone structure and the delicate, lace-like tracery of the spire. Medieval builders transformed heavy sandstone into something that appears almost weightless. The cathedral remained the tallest building in the world for centuries, until the Washington Monument surpassed it in 1884. Its construction was not the work of a single architect or generation. It reflects centuries of changing designs, craftsmanship, ambition, and restoration. One important detail: the coloured construction phases in this illustration are a simplified visual guide, not a definitive dating of every individual stone or architectural feature. For me, Strasbourg Cathedral demonstrates that great architecture is rarely created in one moment. It is built layer by layer, by people whose names history may never remember.

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demand from your politicians that they find which humans have the will and the skill to produce such work and empower them at all costs, otherwise the future is just bland functionalist design oppressing the human spirit forever

The Ghost (1898) by Josef Mandl

Despite tedium, cruelty and styrofoam packing peanuts, it's still a fascinating world.

I feel a renaissance in the air

The Viking Ship (1883-1884), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones.

Sunrise sketch in watercolour. This is the view at daybreak on the island. I could never tire of this:)

Paintings by E. Martin Hennings (American, 1886-1956)