file for MV

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bobby Zimmerman, come to the front of the class.

Bobby Zimmerman, come to the front of the class. The assignment in today's English class was to write an essay on "Five Things I Did Over Summer Vacation." Instead of doing the assignment, you wrote three poems, one with 37 stanzas. Here -- let me read from one -- "Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky With one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea Circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate Driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today until tomorrow"   What sort of nonsense is this? You will never win a Nobel Prize for Literature, I tell you, and right now you're getting a failing grade in my English class.  Now, return to your seat.          What's that you said? "My boogers are blowin' in the wind?"      That's it. Detention for you. Stay after school and I will be calling your mother and the Nobel Prize Committee. Don't think twice, it's alright.
Read more

The Sneetches on the Nietzsches

write a playful children's story, in the whimsical style of Dr. Seuss, that weaves in the philosophical ideas of Nietzsche. The title of this story is The Sneetches on the Nietzches. In the blustery bright town of Neener-Neetch Beach Lived a curious crowd known as Sneetches-on-Nietzsches. They were not like the Sneetches you may know from before— These Sneetches were thinkers who thought even more. They wondered and pondered from morning to night About willpower, courage, and doing what's right. They asked giant questions while perched on tall rocks Or while polishing seashells and sorting their socks. One young Sneetch—named Zibby—would tiptoe and sigh, For she carried big questions wherever she'd fly. "Why am I me?" she whispered. "And who decides how? Must I follow the crowd? Must I moo like a cow?" Her classmates just giggled. "Oh Zibby, don't fret! You think far too much. Have you finished lunch yet?" But Zibby just blinked and stared ...
Read more

Makers have a compulsion to explore the realms of the possible

Makers often say they feel something stirring inside them when they sense an unexplored idea. It is not dramatic in the way movies portray discovery—there is no lightning strike, no sudden orchestra swelling. It is quieter and more private, like a tap on the shoulder from a thought that has not fully formed yet but knows exactly whom it wants to visit. The tap can come while they are walking through a hardware store, or stirring their coffee, or half-asleep in the early morning when the world is hushed enough for strange possibilities to slip through. Makers will often say that once this tap happens, they cannot let the idea go. It sits in their mind like a small flame, flickering at first, then growing brighter each time they return to it. That small flame is the beginning of the compulsion—the nearly irresistible pull toward an invention domain no one else has explored. Part of this pull is rooted in curiosity, but curiosity alone does not explain all of it. Plenty of people are curi...
Read more

Rich Fried Rice Recipe in the style of Friedrich Nietzche

Here is a recipe for Rich Fried Rice , prepared with the bold spirit and sizzling philosophical flair of Friedrich Nietzsche —a dish that refuses to be merely "good," and instead strives to become what it is : a triumphant, self-overcoming skillet of flavor. Rich Fried Rice: A Nietzschean Recipe for Culinary Self-Overcoming Introduction: Fried rice is too often treated as an afterthought—a way to use leftovers, a footnote to a larger meal. But Nietzsche would have none of this timid culinary modesty. This rice must become rich , not merely in flavor but in character . It must surpass its former self, transcending its humble origins, leaping beyond the starchy morality of the herd. This is fried rice that gazes into the abyss of your empty stomach—and the abyss happily gazes back. Let us proceed. Ingredients (Only those with the will to season may enter.) 3 cups day-old rice , cooled (for only the disciplined grain attains greatness) 2 tbsp oil (the eternal recurrence of sizz...
Read more

Finding Purpose

Once upon a time, in a quiet town, there lived an elderly widower named Henry. His beloved wife had passed away twenty years ago, leaving a void in his life that seemed impossible to fill. But amidst the solitude, Henry found solace and joy in visiting the local public library. Every Saturday, he would make his way to the library, where he would spend hours immersed in the world of books. There, on his favorite couch, he would lose himself in stories and knowledge, feeling a sense of connection to the world. The library had become his sanctuary, a place where he felt a comforting presence even in the absence of his dear wife. However, Henry's Saturdays had become increasingly lonely. His aging body no longer allowed him to drive safely, and he relied on the kindness of library staff who would pick him up and drop him off at home. Despite their companionship during the car rides, he longed for more meaningful connections and a renewed purpose in his life. One Saturday, as Henry sat ...
Read more

Affordable Housing for Billionaires

One of the thing I'm most concerned about is affordable housing for billionaires. Many of them do not have a regular paycheck. They subsist month to month on passive income that flows into their bank accounts like the Niagara River surging after an intense downpour. Many of them have no idea where their next $100 million will come from. Take a moment to look behind the facade of their lives. Underneath their gilded and sparkling trappings lie tales of uncertainty and apprehension, where maintaining an extravagant lifestyle is akin to treading a tightrope suspended over a chasm of financial instability.   Picture, if you will, the bewildering complexities of their predicament. While the rest of society frets over bills, mortgages, and making ends meet, billionaires grapple with an entirely different set of fiscal quandaries.   Their lifeblood, the passive income, ebbs and flows with the volatility of the global economy, subject to the caprices of stock markets, real estate vent...
Read more

You Are Not Required to Finish the Books You Read

You are not required to finish the books you read. At the library, unfinished books are a badge of honor. They say: I tried. I tasted. I sampled. I am a literary explorer, not a prisoner. Reading is not like a restaurant buffet where you feel obligated to try every dish, even the suspicious casserole with raisins. It's more like dating. You can politely say, "It's not you, it's me," and swipe left on Moby-Dick before Captain Ahab even clears his throat. Charles Dickens will not file a complaint. Tolstoy will not wake up and glare at you in the night. Finishing a book is not proof of intelligence. What matters is that you read with curiosity and joy. So, dear reader, remember: every book you start is a doorway. Sometimes you'll step through and wander for miles. Other times, you'll peek in, shrug, and move along. Either way, the doors are always open. And the library has thousands more waiting, no guilt required. Phil Shapiro https://tinyurl.com/storiesof...
Read more

My Childhood Memory of Waterfalls

When I was a child, my family lived in New Delhi, India. Every summer, the heat became so strong that we could hardly breathe. To escape the heat, we drove up into the Himalayan mountains. The road was narrow and twisty, and sometimes we had to stop to let goats cross. But the best part of the trip was always the waterfalls. Whenever we passed one, my father would pull over. The children would run to the back of the car, grab our bathing suits, and change faster than you could say "waterfall." We would jump under the water, laugh, shout, and dance. It was always cold—shivering, teeth-chattering cold—because the water was melted snow from way up in the mountains. But even though we froze, it was the happiest kind of cold. It felt like a secret gift from nature. Years later, I moved to the United States. One summer, my brother invited me to visit him in Ithaca, New York. He said, "Let's go swim under a waterfall." I smiled and said, "Sure." I packed my ...
Read more

Summit Fever on Møllehøj: An Epic Ascent of Denmark’s Tallest Peak

We knew the odds were against us. At 171 meters above sea level, Møllehøj , Denmark's highest point, loomed large—not in stature, but in psychological magnitude. In a world distracted by the gaudy drama of Everest and K2, few dared dream of conquering The Danish Colossus . But we were not "few." We were fools. And that made all the difference. We began planning in March. By Danish standards, this gave us barely enough time to train, map out the logistical framework, assemble gear, and file diplomatic permits with the Danish Ministry of Slightly Elevated Terrain. The window for a safe summit attempt would be narrow—April to late April, when the wild sheep migrate and the winds howl across Jutland like the sighs of Odin. Stage One: The Base Camp at Skanderborg We established Base Camp Alpha at the rugged hamlet of Skanderborg, some 15 kilometers from the mountain's foot. There, we spent two weeks acclimatizing in different pubs—while also taking short hikes up local f...
Read more

The Sanctuary of Music Making

In a crumbling apartment building on the edge of Detroit, seventeen-year-old Malik adjusted the strings of his beaten-up cello. Downstairs, the rattle of pipes and the occasional shout from the street found their way through the thin walls, but inside this room—his grandmother's old sewing room, now converted into a makeshift studio—there was only the cello and the slow breath of silence before music. Malik had discovered the cello by accident, stumbling upon it in a school closet during detention. The music teacher, Mr. Alvarez, had let him take it home "just to see if it fits you." It didn't at first—his fingers were clumsy, his bowing a disaster—but something in the deep voice of the instrument had spoken to a place inside him that words never reached. Across the ocean in a sun-drenched village in southern Italy, 64-year-old Sofia sat on the worn wooden stool in her kitchen, her accordion resting gently on her lap. The kitchen smelled of garlic and lemon zest, and ...
Read more