Knowing yourself worth..
..makes you QUESTION everything about your life before now.
I'll Know My Name
A Moment of Weakness is a Moment of Clarity
life:
May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 — becoming the very first American astronaut in space.
In the May 19, 1961 issue of LIFE, Alan gave his own personal story of what it was like being the first American to travel into space.
See more space photos here.
Anonymous asked:
are you going to the beatles: the lost concert" movie when it comes out next month?
Well to be honest I have been living under a rock for a bit here and this is the first I am hearing of it. So thank you for asking because now I want to go. So I guess its a maybe. If I don’t get around to going I can always wait for the dvd. Although I would really enjoy going.
Sharks Mistaken for Lake Monsters?
A shark researcher has offered a new theory about what might be behind some of the world’s famous lake monsters.
Bruce Wright, a senior scientist at the Aleutian Pribilof Island Association, wrote an article for the Alaska Dispatch newspaper that proposed an interesting idea: “For years, legendary tales from Scotland and Western Alaska described large animals or monsters thought to live in Loch Ness and Lake Iliamna. But evidence has been mounting that the Loch Ness and Lake Iliamna monsters may, in fact, be sleeper sharks.”
Wright suggests that the sharks, which can reach 20 feet long and weigh over four tons, might migrate through rivers and into lakes and be mistaken for monsters.
npr:
The Magic Schoolbus, The Phantom Tollbooth, Wishbone, and Star Wars?
As their internships come to a close, several interns here at NPR decided to reflect on the pop culture they miss from their childhood (and would like to share with future generations).
What pieces of pop culture from your childhood would you share with the next generation?
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Dies at 47
RIP
I felt lost and found with every step I took.
While I had been cleaning my bedroom today I listened to Cassadaga. The words fell heavy I had finally after all these years heard the album. At this point I became very grateful for all the things that I have experienced in my life and all the people that have entered and exited my life. I have been struggling with how to actually express this feeling that has came over me. The core of it all I guess is I am content. I often remember things I have done. I at times don’t recognize the person or even the events that I was apart of. Many life times have passed in my short life and I am grateful for each one. Although I may never fully understand the steps that lead me to the place and the person that I have found myself to be. I do understand who I am. I see myself the way no one could ever see. Everyone lives in there own reality based on their own perception of life. I was born alone into this vessel, I will fall asleep alone and I will die alone. This truth is only comforted by acceptance. As I see the person I have grown into I look back on the last 23 years in a bitter sweet light. I am proud and embarrassed by the life I have lead. I see all the negative and positive aspects of my being and I embrace all that I can of life. I will continue to grow and I will be proud as long I keep growing in the direction I have found.
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: May 1, 1969
Fred Rogers, host of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications to oppose significant proposed cuts to funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. [Youtube]
Sen. Pastore: All right, Rogers, you’ve got the floor.
Mr. Rogers: Sen. Pastore, this is a philosophical statement and would take about ten minutes to read, so I’ll not do that. One of the first things that a child learns in a healthy family is trust, and I trust what you have said that you will read this. It’s very important to me. I care deeply about children.
Sen. Pastore: Will it make you happy if you read it?
Mr. Rogers: I’d just like to talk about it, if it’s alright. My first children’s program was on WQED fifteen years ago, and its budget was $30. Now, with the help of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation and National Educational Television, as well as all of the affiliated stations — each station pays to show our program. It’s a unique kind of funding in educational television. With this help, now our program has a budget of $6000. It may sound like quite a difference, but $6000 pays for less than two minutes of cartoons. Two minutes of animated, what I sometimes say, bombardment. I’m very much concerned, as I know you are, about what’s being delivered to our children in this country. And I’ve worked in the field of child development for six years now, trying to understand the inner needs of children. We deal with such things as — as the inner drama of childhood. We don’t have to bop somebody over the head to…make drama on the screen. We deal with such things as getting a haircut, or the feelings about brothers and sisters, and the kind of anger that arises in simple family situations. And we speak to it constructively. (more)
(via pbsthisdayinhistory)
npr:
The most graceful falling bear we’ve ever seen.
The bear landed safely on the padded mat.
“If a bear fell in the forest would anybody hear it?”
npr:
We headin’ to the top, if ya comin’, come on.
