Patrick Niyongabo

Veni Vedi Vici.

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Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263) by Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —

Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —

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Code Inflation

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#boston #newengland #nofilter (at Fenway–Kenmore)

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overused strengths become weaknesses

https://hbr.org/2017/08/the-dark-side-of-resilience

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Preach to Ignite: Preach to those whose flame burning dim.

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Saint Rita of Cascia, advocate of the impossible, pray for us. Saint Rita of Cascia, advocate of the helpless, pray for us.

https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/st-rita-of-cascia-patron-saint-of-the-impossible/

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When an antique clock breaks, a clock that's been telling time for 200 or 300 years, fixing it can be a real puzzle. An old clock like that was handmade by someone. It might tick away the time with a pendulum, with a spring, with a pulley system. It might have bells that are supposed to strike the hour, or a bird that's meant to pop out and cuckoo at you. There can be hundreds of tiny, individual pieces, each of which needs to interact with the others precisely. To make the job even trickier, you often can't tell what's been done to a clock over hundreds of years. Maybe there's damage that was never fixed, or fixed badly. Sometimes, entire portions of the original clockwork are missing, but you can't know for sure because there are rarely diagrams of what the clock's supposed to look like. A clock that old doesn't come with a manual. So instead, the few people left in the world who know how to do this kind of thing rely on what are often called witness marks to guide their way. A witness mark could be a small dent, a hole that once held a screw. These are actual impressions, and outlines, and discolorations left inside the clock of pieces that might have once been there. They're clues to what was in the clockmaker's mind when he first created the thing. I'm told fixing an old clock can be maddening. You're constantly wondering if you've just spent hours going down a path that will likely take you nowhere, and all you've got are these vague witness marks, which might not even mean what you think they mean. So at every moment along the way, you have to decide if you're wasting your time or not.

Brian Reed, S-Town, Chapter 1, Introduction

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It is wrong to aid and abet a national crime simply because it is unpopular not to do so.

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, p.33

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What do you see when you see me? When did all the things I mean From the bottom of my heart start to lose meaning?

Lose You on “More Life” by Drake, March 2017.

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Invisible Man - The End!

Invisible Man: “Perhaps that's my greatest social crime, I've overstayed my hibernation, since there's a possibility that even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play.”

Invisible Man: “Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”

Excerpt From: Ralph Ellison. “Invisible man.”

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I was caught between guilt and innocence, so that now they seemed one and the same.”

Excerpt From: Ralph Ellison. “Invisible man.” iBooks. 

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more n more! (at Hendrix College)

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The spring season is here! #sunglasses #blackandwhite #warmweather #hendrixcollege (at Hendrix College)

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Let's get together, uncommon people. With both our eyes we may see what makes us so uncommon, we'll see who makes us uncommon!

Excerpt From: Ralph Ellison. “Invisible man.

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A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

"WordNet Search—3.1"

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It is a beautiful day ... #nofilter (at Conway, Arkansas)