Interesting meeting today at my local Quaker meeting house. I was contemplating mindfullness in response to someones thoughts on being in the present moment, and my struggles doing just that.

My favorite Terry Pratchett quote (and my fedi-header) came to my mind:
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has got there first, and is waiting for it".
Today I saw this quote from a new point of view. Wherever we look ahead, we see war, violence and hatred there. TV's showing bad things in every corner of the world, and a dark future wherever we look.
But instead, we should pull back and focus on where we are now, and look to being in the light, and not think of the darkness ahead.

I think Sir PTerry was maybe even wiser than I already thought, and I already had him rated v highly.

#gnuterrypratchett #quakers #lightinthedark #TerryPrachett

j'essaye vaguement de lire terry pratchet, j'ai commencé par la huitième couleur parceque j'aime bien lire dans l'ordre de parution mais j'ai galéré trés fort pour ne pas m'endormir dessus (le premier soir j'ai tenu 10min et je me suis même pas souvenu m'être endormi ')

Du coup est-ce que vous avez un avis sur quel tome commencer qui soit intéressant ? je ne prendrais en compte que les avis argumentés sinon ça vas pas m'aider '

#livres #fantasy #TerryPrachett

Pterry really was a gift for the ages. Page 11 of my umpteenth rereading of Witches Abroad, and I find something new to make me chortle.

#TerryPrachett #Delight

Ist es verwerflich, wenn man #TerryPrachett und #douglasadams Zitate verwechselt?
#GNUTerryPratchet
#gnudouglasadams

A man ist not dead while his name is still spoken

Terry Pratchett had such great turns of phrases:

Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

- The Light Fantastic

#TerryPrachett #Diacworld

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men "Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."

-- Terry Pratchett

#TerryPrachett #Witch

Discworld: "Martina, who has a passion for bookbinding and DIY, decided to take on this mammoth project as her very first mechanical build. Her idea was both whimsical and practical in the most Nerdforge way: she would bind all 40 Discworld books and arrange them around a massive wooden wheel."

https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/17/entire-discworld-series-turned-into-a-rotating-book-wheel/

#TerryPrachett #DiscWorld