"HELLO and WELCOME!"

This website is dedicated to all who love learning, regardless of age.

I will post interesting articles that will keep us sharp, spark our imaginations, fuel our creativity genes, and empower us to be a vital part of the future.  Come on.  Let's go sow our oats (wheat!)!!!

"There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown." Napoleon Hill.

"As you get older, you will find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you."  Gwendolyn Brooks

Voltaire:

"I may not agree with you, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

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This website is designed to enhance the quality of life for its readers, wherever they may be, through:

providing educational enrichment opportunities

promoting individual well-being in the area of health and safety;

creating a "world-wide" community spirit

providing links to cutting-edge technology and social media news for information sharing and communication.

committing to excellence and innovation.

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As a human, I am continuously learning too, and thanks to the WWW, have found wonderful mentors throughout the world who continuously help me help others.

Last night, June 24, 2006, I goofed and forwarded an email that was sent to me without checking its sources.  I should have known better as that was my job as a teacher/librarian to help others know the difference between real and fake for whatever reasons.

The best advice I received this morning was to re-read Rene Descartes' ("I think therefore I am") HOW TO THINK CORRECTLY.

"Good sense is mankind's most equitably divided endowment... the differences of opinion are not due to difference in intelligence, but merely to the fact that we use different approaches and consider different things.  For it is not enough to have a good mind: one must use it well."

Here's a good place to start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Method

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"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

To him...
a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating." – Pearl Buck