I always thought the name of Utahโs major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word โdesert.โ But no, Deseret is the โland of the honeybee,โ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
A. J. JacobsWhen I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
A. J. JacobsThink of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.
A. J. Jacobs