Fickle as a Life Plan

Building lives…is always both a building and a rebuilding job. You should always be planning for changes and improvements and always ready to make them, and then to make others as soon as you are sure that you have something better planned.

This sounds like a plea for fickleness. But a certain amount of fickleness is necessary in a life plan if there is to be any progress. It is only when this policy of change is carried to the extreme that it becomes a fault. Some people over plan and underbuild and never get anywhere, and some stick to one thing that wasn’t worth sticking to and get somewhere, but the where isn’t worth getting to.

—Eugene Victor LeGarden, Subconscious Power: The Secret of Achievement (1926)

Fickle as a Mostly Naked Silver Guy

Fickle as Californians Pissed Off at Robots

The great promise of self-driving cars is that they will save innumerable lives by removing the most fallible and unpredictable element from vehicle traffic: the human.

But in San Francisco at least, fickle human behavior is taking a stand.

—The Guardian, “Rage Against the Machine: Self-Driving Cars Attacked by Angry Californians”

Photo Essay: Snow

Dear Mother/Father/God/Universe,

Thank you for the sudden grace of the falling snow.

Also, if you could take some of the moisture that fell on San Antonio & reroute it to California, that would be great.

Love,

Miss Fickle

Fickle as a Bot Tweet

Fickle as a Conflict of Wishes

And there is the fickle man who is constantly recalling his decisions and deciding all over again; he is obviously the greatest failure and the most unhappy man of the lot.

–Eugene Victor Legaren, Subconscious Power–The Secret of Achievement, 1926

Fickle as Entertainment

Love you, Vincent D’Onofrio.

This Week’s Bunny: White and Brown, Munching on a Bamboo Leaf

Wordless Wednesday: The Farmhouse Table

Fickle as a Prince

[T]he prince must consider…how to avoid those things which make him hated or contemptible….It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock.

—Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince