july

This is a good and funny meme that points out the absurdity of NYE celebrations, but also we should be working harder to put that energy into more milestones 

I’d be psyched if the following cases were equally memeable:

- my hemisphere successfully completed another harvest
- we made it to midsummer 
- the earth is waking up again and everything is procreating 
- a person I love came of age 
- a person I love got laid for the first time 
- a couple I admire crossed n decades of marriage 
- a respected community member died (the Irish had it right, wakes should be ragers)
- a person I love got a job
- the drought broke 
- the sun finally came out 
- ten bags of groceries just came home 

We should be celebrating how great things are with silly, giddy urgency way more and worrying about the teflon in our dental floss way less

Funerals should be ragers and celebrations of human lives change my mind 

Also these:

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

“If then we prefer to meet danger with a light heart but without laborious training, and with a courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the better for it? Since we do not anticipate the pain, although, when the hour comes, we can be as brave as those who never allow themselves to rest”

“To you who are the sons and brothers of the departed, I see that the struggle to emulate them will be an arduous one. For all men praise the dead, and, however preeminent your virtue may be, I do not say even to approach them, and avoid living their rivals and detractors, but when a man is out of the way, the honor and goodwill which he receives is unalloyed”

the goal of life is not to arrive at the end of the line in pristine condition