One doesn’t discover…
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – André Gide (1869 – 1951) (Image by Youssef Jheir from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »

![IMAGE: Be faithful to thyself. [Be faithful to yourself.] / Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/prayer-1308663_640-200x133.jpg)



![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)




![IMAGE: My Very Earnest [Educated] Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. (for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupitar, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/solar-system-11111_640_pizzas-99663_640-100x75.jpg)
