Remembering What Endures

Quote of the day:
“Excessive merriment was not a pressing problem for the half of the Mayflower’s 102 passengers who survived the first few months in wintry Massachusetts.”
--George Will in today’s "Washington Post"

Most-unknown fact of the day:
Butterball has a new owner. The most-famous turkey brand was sold by ConAgra to Carolina Turkeys last month. Carolina has changed its name to Butterball.
--Steve Hartson, the Associated Press

Science item of the day:
If the ground did not get in the way, rainbows would be circular.
--Sherry Seethaler, science writer for the University of California, San Diego

Word of the day:
“Hurry.”
--From the center of of one of the 82 inserts in this morning’s newspaper

Thanksgiving reflection:
“How easy it is to keep up with current events these days, and how tempting, with so many sources of information only a mouse-click away.... But all the screaming headlines will still be screaming their little heads off the day I die--and no matter how many newspapers and magazines and blogs I read, I won’t understand this mysterious world any better by then.

“Maybe I need to focus more on what’s enduring and true--the one story that illuminates all our seemingly separate stories. Meanwhile, History sits at the bar, raising his glass to whoever will pay for his next drink.”
--Sy Safransky, in the November 2006 "Sun"