“Dancing is when your spirit and body unite together”…Russ Talchief
Category: Journal
Thought of the Day
Detroit Public Schools compared to Detroit Charter Schools:
– teachers had double the pay on average
– classrooms had less students (avg 22)
– received $13,743 per student compared to the avg $7131 for charter schools.
Why did it fail compared to Charter Schools?!
Thought of the Day
Warrendale area in Detroit should win the ugliest place in America. It must be an inspiration for a new mayor of this area to see how to turn it around.
Thought of the Day
This rock is a history book of 350 Million years of history. Each inch narrates a history of about 10,000 years. Every page of this book, with all the plant and animal fossils within it, matches the model of evolution. Not one contradiction. Not one exception. Never has been a theory more proven in science, to the extent that it is now the basis of all modern understanding of science.
Unfortunately, as an engineer, I didn’t get to understand it till I was in my late 20’s.
If you don’t understand the theory of evolution, take few months of reading on it, for it is the ABC’s of the education of a modern man. Without understanding it, you are choosing to be scientifically illiterate. HIGHSCHOOL and COLLEGE won’t teach it. It is a personal effort.
Recommended Books:
1. The origin of species
2. The Selfish Gene
3. The Fish Within Us
4. The Greatest Show on Earth
5. Unweaving the Rainbow
6. The Magic of Reality
Thought of the Day
I don’t respect the time of anyone who is not serving and volunteering in a cause to humanity that is making him busy.
Thought of the Day
the smell of new car is one of the rare pleasures of life.
April 25, 2016
Thought of the Day
“There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living. ” Karl Lagerfeld
Thought of the Day
Placebo is the most powerful treatment.
The Overwhelming Unconscious Critic
Every observation, whether it is barely conscious, or unconscious at all, made by my brain to my surrounding is registering a distaste or admiration.
Unfortunately in Dearborn/Dearborn Heights area, it is mostly registering distaste and irritability for the lack of aesthetic value. It is a city inter-commuted only by car, biking and walking unfriendly, with over crowded streets and houses, and a population of crazy young drivers who all seem in a hurry to get somewhere very soon, if not racing or revving for entertainment.
No way to stop this overwhelming flood of ugliness into your unconscious except to separate yourself completely from your environment, if not leaving the city all together.
Days are Never Short
The day is never short. It is a uniform container. If it is too busy, or you feel it has not enough time, it is because you are over filling it. Here is the remedy:
- Simplify:
- Toss out the junk (facebook, youtube, TV, etc…)
- Simplify your communication through one or two emails only, and one messaging app.
- Minimize your style so you don’t spend much time there.
- Let Go:
- You can’t do it all. Say NO to previous commitments and memberships.
- This moment becomes your new ideal
- Cut the strings out of what is hanging… let it float away from you … then be free to visit when you want to, … with no strings attached.
Wissam Charafeddine 