The Garden of the Mind

Listening to: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Weather: pale grey and crisp, Timothy the mailman has his winter hat on today!
Mood: (woo hoo it's Friday)

Thanks to Anu Garg for this quote today. It accompanies the Word of the Day email:

"The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter." -Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)

Just something nice and soothing to contemplate while I'm working up a heavy morals/religion postulate this afternoon. Of course, if you look at Joshua Reynolds's paintings you might wonder what he considers "foreign" matter... A little overly sentimental for me... though I admit, I'm not a Rococo fan.

Observant visiters might note the new happy picture of my beautiful wife and myself to the right. As part of an experiment to see how many predetory male bloggers there, I've changed my gender status to unspecified and included this image of the two of us. We'll see if it increases my profile views... girl bloggers with pictures in their profiles get the most views... LOL. If that doesn't lure them in perhaps a picture of her on the beach in Hawai'i might do it?