Today on my blog: this month's two tiny changes which might improve your life.
https://zenmischief.com/2025/06/this-months-two-tiny-changes-7/
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This Month’s Two Tiny Changes
Each month during 2025 we’re offering two tiny changes which may help improve your life. This month …
- Rescue trapped insects – yes, even the ones you hate, like wasps or spiders. They get stuck indoors. Open a window and let them out, or trap them in a jar and put them outside
- Get direct sunlight in the morning. Even if it’s only for five minutes.
Today on my blog: this month's collection of quotes to amuse or provoke thought.
June Monthly Quotes
Rather thin pickings in the way of quotes encountered this month.
In a sense, nothing in life is planned – or everything is – because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step before; the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be.
[Anthony Powell; The Acceptance World]
Most dictionaries define happiness as “the feeling of being happy”. This has the bizarre quality of being correct while containing no useful information whatsoever.
[Dr Dean Burnett, Science Focus, May 2025]
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
[Dalai Lama]
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
[Carl Jung]
You can seem like a millionaire to one person and a homeless person to the next. The ants think you are a giant, and the trees don’t even notice you. You think you have a boring life, but the next person might be striving for your lifestyle. Comparison is the thief of joy, so stay kind and keep loving life. Life is all just a big game of perspective.
[unknown]
The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.
[Noam Chomsky]
Chocolate lines up planetarily with the sun. Chocolate is an octave of sun energy. In fact, it’s the energy of the centre of the sun.
[David Avacado Wolfe (b.1970)]
Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.
[James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)]
Today on my blog, answers to this month's quiz questions on World Affairs.
June Quiz Answers
Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.
World Affairs
- Which political figure became Baroness of Kesteven? Margaret Thatcher
- What year was the United Nations established? 1945
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus became the head of which United Nations agency in 2017? WHO (World Health Organisation)
- Who was US President in the year 2000? Bill Clinton
- What was the name of the treaty signed between the Allies and Germany that officially ended WWI? Treaty of Versailles
- The border between North Korea and South Korea is about 257km long and 4km wide. What is this buffer zone known as? Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.
This month's poem on my blog is "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer.
This Month’s Poem
Trees
Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Find this poem online at Poetry Foundation
Today's entry on my blog is this month's self-portrait entitled "Oh bugger, I forgot my dog-collar".
Today on my blog, this month's Ten Things. On this occasion "Ten Artists Born in 17th Century".
Ten Things
This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!
Ten Artists Born in 17th Century
- Claude Lorrain
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Willem van der Velde the Younger
Willem van der Velde the Younger
Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail - Johannes Vermeer
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- Aelbert Cuyp
- Pieter de Hooch
- Antoine Watteau
- William Hogarth
- Peter Lely
And on my Zen Mischief blog today is this month's quote:
"The average person thinks he isn’t."
[Father Larry Lorenzoni]
On my blog yesterday, this month's Something to Think About:
"A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you."
https://zenmischief.com/2025/06/something-to-think-about-this-month-6/
This Month’s Quote
The average person thinks he isn’t.
Father Larry Lorenzoni
Something to Think About this month
As well as everything else, each month I offer you something to think about and get the brain working. This month …
A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you.
Yesterday on my log: This month's six quiz questions on World Affairs.
https://zenmischief.com/2025/06/june-quiz-questions-4/
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June Quiz Questions
Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.
World Affairs
- Which political figure became Baroness of Kesteven?
- What year was the United Nations established?
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus became the head of which United Nations agency in 2017?
- Who was US President in the year 2000?
- What was the name of the treaty signed between the Allies and Germany that officially ended WWI?
- The border between North Korea and South Korea is about 257km long and 4km wide. What is this buffer zone known as?
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
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Also today on my blog a handful of things that happened in June 1925.
https://zenmischief.com/2025/06/june-1925/
#1925 #otd #history #June #zenmischief
June 1925
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
8. The Noël Coward comic play Hay Fever opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the City of Westminster, England.
14. A significant German art exhibition of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement opened in Mannheim, with paintings by George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Rudolf Schlichter and others.
15. Born. Richard Baker, English broadcast journalist and author (d.2018)
24. The Five Sisters window at York Minster was dedicated to the women who lost their lives in the line of service during World War I
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