Quotes of the Day

Not having a job is the number two turnoff for women (number one being over thirty and still living in your parent's wood-paneled basement). [2012] - Christopher Gray

When you are unoccupied for a few minutes, and especially last thing at night before falling asleep and first thing in the morning before getting up, "flood" your body with consciousness. Close your eyes. Lie flat on your back. Choose different parts of your body to focus your attention on briefly at first: hands, feet, arms, legs, abdomen, chest, head, and so on. Feel the life energy inside those parts as intensely as you can. Stay with each part for fifteen seconds or so. Then let your attention run through the body like a wave a few times, from feet to head and back again. This need only takes a minute or so. After that, feel the inner body in its totality, as a single field of energy. Hold that feeling for a few minutes. [1999] - Eckhart Tolle

If you choose to manage your own properties, it also means maintaining a book of contacts, such as a plumber, an electrician, a painter, and a flooring installer. If you hire a property manager, he or she will maintain that entire Rolodex of contacts on your behalf, plus handle a thousand small problems you truly don't want to touch. Much property management work is low-wage work, so you will effectively be losing money by spending your time here. [2017] - Calum Ross

Among the many types of kale, there’s one that is unusually delicious and available in late fall and winter markets in North America and Europe. It is called cavolo nero (black cabbage), or lacinato, Tuscan kale, or sometimes dinosaur kale. When buying kale, look for bunches with intact leaves and firm stems. Cut the leaves away from the inedible fibrous stem, then chop or shred the leaves, which then can be steamed, blanched, sautéed, used in soup or stew, or mixed into pasta or rice. Properly cooked, cavolo nero is very tender. It turns almost black, and it has a robust flavor with a mild, sweet aftertaste. [2019] - William W Li

One quality that should be looked at for both potential partners, prior to marriage, is the tendency to find fault, to attribute blame, to make the other person wrong, and to need to portray oneself as always "right." The more pessimistic a person is, the more likely they are to be obstreperous. [2002] - Neil Clark Warren