There is no freedom in being oneself.

Is this a misquote? I thought I saw this yesterday on the internet somewhere, thought interesting and tried to find it again. Nowhere. My fading memory ... could it be in being yourself? or for being yourself? Did I read too fast or is it my own imagination? Can I say this is mine? No ancient Greek or Hindu ascetic has gotten this? Being yourself is just being shackled by your fate. Your genes, your looks, your cultural determination. Or is it purely idiocy? Half baked sentence, good only for some pop song.

artifice

Everyone likes fire works. It seems that the heart designs are more popular than the flags or the earth. We look and we wonder is this the best? Can they outdo themselves? Is this the finale? Glorious finale? But the expression in French is more appropriate -feu d'artfice. ars facere, ingenious and cunning. Pleasurable false explosion.

Mermaids. NO MERMAIDS

 Sad news. I am going to give up sailing. Or can one believe NOAA? They are rarely precise in their predictions. Science is going haywire. There is a boson. But no Atlantis. No mermaids. Just winds....
And they announce this on the 4th of July.