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today is Fill Our Staplers Day — Monday 27 March, the day after clocks change — in UK as well as the rest of Europe

The Dull Men’s Club established two Fill Your Staplers Days that take place every year: (1) the...

March 30, Thursday — National Pencil Day (USA)

Happiness from the boring, mundane, repetition — article in The Guardian

“The secret of happiness? Embrace the boring, lay claim to the mundane and rejoice in repetition” in The Guardian, click here to read it. Chiles writes, “In everything from family life to careers, it doesn’t...

Yesterday was World Water Day — March 22 — how did you celebrate?

World Water Day, sponsored by the United Nations, is a day to bring people’s attention to...

Albert Einstein
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness”

~ Albert Einstein
Edward R. Murrow
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”

~ Edward R. Murrow
Hoagy Carmichael
"Slow motion gets you there faster"

~ Hoagy Carmichael
Marilyn Thomsen
"While it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfilment in being ordinary"

~ Marilyn Thomsen
testi 1
“We’re giving a good name to a four-letter word — dull”
testi 2
“Glitz and glam — not worth the bother”
testi 3
“We don’t try to keep up with the Joneses — who are the Joneses anyway?”
testi 4
“Time is a great invention — it’s what keeps everything from happening all at once”
Will Rogers
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there”

~ Will Rogers