Big GeorgeWell, my kid passed his first year at University. He got what he expected, so thats a good thing. Much cleverer than his dad.... #wits
My son finished his first year of university (well, the exams at least) yesterday. So we had a #Guinness to celebrate. #wits #parentingdoneright
News BeepNoisy little blue penguins nest under Coromandel home, leaving couple at wits’ end
The penguins would come and nest under their deck and it was a delight for them and their…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #at #blue #coromandel #couple #end #home #kirkbymcleod #leaving #libby #little #nest #NewZealand #noisy #NZ #penguins #under #wits
https://www.newsbeep.com/248440/
Napier pigeon house leaves neighbours at ‘wits’ end’, council says there’s nothing it can do
The council says it cannot take action “as the birds are nesting of their own volition” and “there…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #at #can #council #do #end #freeranging #home #house #it #large #leaves #living #napier #neighbours #NewZealand #next #nothing #NZ #pigeon #pigeons #population #says #their #them #theres #with #wits
https://www.newsbeep.com/91305/
Voracious ReaderMy phone just blocked a spam SMS, and when I looked, it was from the political f*$#wits who are singlehandedly supporting advertising currently.
I hope they don't realise that phones are automagically blocking their spam 🤪
Took my son to register at #wits (University of the Witwatersrand) this morning. Start of the next stage of our lives.... #university
WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Tepper, Sheri:
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Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.
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Sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/tepper-sheri/73233/
#quote #quotes #quotation #challenge #conflict #creativity #imagination #survival #wits
A quotation from Euripides:
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Alas, how right the ancient saying is:
We, who are old, are nothing else but noise
And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go,
And have no wits, although we think us wise.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/68620/
#quote #quotation #quotes #dementia #elderly #henoed #mind #oldage #shadows #wits
Æolus [Αἴολος], frag. 25 (TGF) [tr. Bowra (1938)] - Euripides | WIST Quotations
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise. [φεῦ φεῦ, παλαιὸς αἶνος ὡς καλῶς ἔχει· γέροντες οὐδέν ἐσμεν ἄλλο πλὴν ψόφος καὶ σχῆμ’, ὀνείρων…
Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתוOne more underrated cultural institution in #SouthAfrica: The #JohannesburgPhilharmonicOrchestra (#JPO), usually playing at #LinderAuditiorium (at #Wits University)
