Find Something Beautiful Today

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After Reading "War and Peace"

Sometimes a thing is called a masterpiece because it is a masterpiece.

- Peggy Noonan

Rest In Peace

 

Brilliant writing. Brilliant performances. Each song is a novel.

On My List

 

Don't Neglect The In-Between

The area between celebration and crisis is immense. While normally receiving far less attention than the extremes, it contains a multitude of essential skills.

Silver Fern Landscaping

 One of my all-time favorite business slogans.

Well Put

Arnold of Rugby, the greatest English educator of the nineteenth century, who created the English public school, defined its mission as making gentlemen out of savages.

- Peter F. Drucker

Hard Truth

The arrival of a crisis does not guarantee the emergence of a capable leader.

First Paragraph

For twelve years I lived and worked in some of the most sublime places in the world. Zion, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon were all landscapes I was proud to protect. I participated in search and rescues, wildland firefighting, and law enforcement. I directed traffic around tarantula jams. I pursued bad guys while galloping on horseback. I jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the dark heart of the Grand Canyon and plucked the damned from the jaws of the abyss. I raced the sunset. I won arguments with bears. I dodged lightning bolts. I pissed on forest fires. I slept with a few too many rattlesnakes.

- From Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks by Andrea Lankford

Island Books

 

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
• The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
• Wooden Boat Books