And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done [..]

Overrate: : to rate, value, or estimate too highly; Function: transitive verb

Overrated: SUVs, men in tight girl-pants, having steady employment; conjugal visits (No, I’ve never had one, but I can only assume that they’re not all they’re cracked up to be.); cats, cell phones, silk flowers; Quentin Tarantino (Sorry, man.); colored push pins – they have a function, they don’t need to be pretty, too; birthday cake, gift cards – if you can’t be bothered to get me something you actually want me to have, forget it (unless it’s worth eleventy-million dollars), [..]

An intriguing article came out today about a newly discovered, uncontacted tribe. And, apparently, there is an organization that is campaigning to protect this uncontacted tribe and others like it. This is an interesting topic that raised some strange questions in my brain that, until this very moment, had no reason to occur to me. [..]