Tony's Garden

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “On funerals, loss, grief, friendship, and support: It’s not about knowing what to say. It’s about being there when nobody knows what to say. The only thing people need to hear is, “You are not alone.” And that doesn’t require words. It just requires your presence.” — James Clear BIRTHDAYS: 1478…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.” — George Pólya BIRTHDAYS: 1695 André Chéron, French composer and organist and harpsichordist. Sonate en trio in D major op. 2 no. 7 1802 Charles Wheatstone, English scientist (sound transmission), and inventor (English concertina;…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The healing of the world starts by one person saying loudly, so the whole world can hear, an important true thing that he knows he’s not supposed to say and that he knows will get him in trouble for saying it. Such courage is contagious.” — Jay Bhattacharya BIRTHDAYS: 1534 Giovanni…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.” — Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1549 Eustache du Caurroy, French Renaissance composer. Une jeune fillette, and Christus vincit 1581 Daniel Selich, German court composer, born in Wittenberg, Electrorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Gott sei uns gnädig 1677 Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer, born…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1809 Felix Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. “Hora est” MWV B 18, and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 1907 James A. Michener, American author. 1920…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.” — David Ricardo BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Louis Marchand, French Baroque organist and composer. Dialogue, and Plein Jeu et Tierce en Taille 1875 Friedrich-Max “Fritz” Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer. Liebesfreud 1905 Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum], Russian-American…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Enter into the Royal Exchange of London, a place more respectable than many courts, in which deputies from all nations assemble for the advantage of mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian bargain with one another as if they were of the same religion, and bestow the name of…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS:…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Certainty is the lot of those who do not ask questions.” — Gregory Benford BIRTHDAYS: 1505 Thomas Tallis, English composer. O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit, and Why Fum’th in Fight, and If Ye Love Me 1905 Emilio G. Segrè, Italian and naturalized-American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Thomas Paine, English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher. 1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short-story writer. 1862 Frederick Delius, British composer. Summer Evening, and Florida Suite 1901 Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and inventor…