FIVE Strange but EXCELLENT links to Provoke Creativity

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
From A Priori and A Posteriori to Zeno’s Paradoxes
Anything to titilate the writer's muse within

http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/

GETTING A READ on Rain City

This article from the archive of the Seattle Times, normally only nominally worthwhile newspaper is definitely work perusing. A number of excellent books and sources are mentioned. Notably absent from the list is "Sons of the Profits," by Bill Speidel, a witty and informative tome on early Seattle.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/seattle_history/articles/story5.html

TOP TEN Overlooked Mysteries in the World
This might trigger some ideas for you

http://listverse.com/2008/02/25/top-10-most-overlooked-mysteries-in-history/

Online Metronome

helps you keep up the pace ~ maybe a break to sing your favorite tune or tap in time on the typewriter will entice the muse.

http://www.metronomeonline.com/


The Arena for Long Bets on Predictions

Check out predictions, bet on 'em. Heck, you can make a prediction of your own

http://www.longbets.org/predictions

The Nexus - Dan Fogelberg

"Wealthy the Spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the Traveler who journeys the length of the light."
~ Dan Fogelberg
(1951-2007)


THE NEXUS

Across the vein of night
There cuts a path of searing light
Burning like a beacon
On the edges of our sight
At the point of total darkness
And the lights divine divide
A soul can let its shadow stretch
And land on either side --
either side.

And balanced on the precipice
The moment must reveal
Naked in the face of time
Our race within the wheel
As we hang beneath the heavens
And we hover over hell
Our hearts become the instruments
We learn to play so well.

Wealthy the spirit that knows its
own flight
Stealthy the hunter who slays
his own fright
Blessed the traveler who journeys
the length of the light.

Outside the pull of gravity
Beyond the spectral veil
Within our careful reasoning
We search to no avail
For the constant in the chaos
For the fulcrum in the void
Following a destiny
Our steps cannot avoid.

Across the vein of night
There cuts a path of searing light
Burning like a beacon
On the edges of our sight
At the point of total darkness
And the lights divine divide
A soul can let its shadow
Stretch and land on either side.

Wealthy the spirit that knows its
own flight
Stealthy the hunter who slays
his own fright
Blessed the traveler who journeys
the length of the light.

In a spiral never-ending
Are we drawn towards the source
Spinning at the mercy of an
unrelenting force
So we stare into the emptiness
and fall beneath the weight
Circling the Nexus in a
fevered dance with fate --

Wealthy the spirit that knows its
own flight
Stealthy the hunter who slays
his own fright
Blessed the traveler who journeys
the length of the light.

"Tell Me That Again..."

TWO OF THE MOST destructive, chaos-inducing, merriment-producing phrases in the Universe of Laurel and Hardy: 1) "Y'know, Ollie...I been thinking...;" and 2) "TELL me that Again."

Poppi and Xander

Nephew Number 1 and Nephew Number One's Number 1 Grandson. IT IS TRUE what Groucho Marx said: "TIME FLIES Like the Wind...but Fruit Flies Like Bananas." Oh lovely Xander Prince! What a world we've woven. May you grow up Strong, Couragous and Highly competent at creating order from the chaos we've wrought."