“but she / Did more, and underwent, and overcame, / The woman of a thousand summers back”

[larryhammer]

The first link is for the World Cup, of course. The others, you can devise your own reasons for.

Football fields from around the world, many of them improvised. (via)

The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People. (via)

Cooking stews from the oldest recipes ever found.

---L.

Subject quote from Godiva, Alfred the Tennyson.

Comments

[sovay]

Cooking stews from the oldest recipes ever found.

YAAAAAAAAAAAY.

[larryhammer]

:g:

[thistleingrey]

I like the stews link (though its links are not new--they were extant a couple of years ago, I think?)!

The miserable people link is weirder, as though one were able to choose. I have some misery, as a sideline to other, more positive (and motivating) emotions; it's quite specific. Perhaps I lack perspective to determine whether being miserable is "allowed," as opposed to a thing I wallow in unnecessarily?

[larryhammer]

The framing of miserable people one is a little off. Most of the entries are mental habits that one can train oneself out of to an extent, and usefully so, but the pose doesn't allow the writer the nuance to point out the caveats -- which makes it sound like all choice.

As a listing of the habits, I found it a useful reminder, but I can see it not being less so if the mental shorthand about it isn't already in place.