You can't stop with just one!

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. Diane Duane

Raise your hand if you have ever eaten just one single potato chip?

Yeah, I didn't think so! I don't know of anyone who can eat just one. And Diane Duane aptly points out in today's quote that reading is just like that. Reading is addictive. But why? Because it opens up worlds of wonder, expanded worldviews, opportunities for further education, reasons to look forward, pleasure and so many other things. Unlike potato chips, however, reading doesn't add to your hips! Haha!

I hope you read. It doesn't have to be as many books as I read per month, just read! Find the pleasure in it, allow it to challenge you and introduce you to new-to-you ideas, discover new worlds. Don't know what to read? Go to a site like goodreads.com and begin cruising around different genres, find one that interests you, jot down some titles and go to the library. Want to know what I'm inhaling each month? You can find my bookshelf and reviews of books I'm reading by clicking here.

Reading. Start it and you'll find you can't stop with just one book!

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A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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