Late Kindness

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From The Conversation comes an article about how the mind smooths out the “noisiness” of what our eyes see in this “Everything we see is a mash-up of the brain’s last 15 seconds of visual information ” article. The gist is that our eyes take in a lot of visual input and, “instead of analysing every single visual snapshot, we perceive in a given moment an average of what we saw in the past 15 seconds.” Even more reason to act on that kindness sooner than later.

About the author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was “the most gifted of the Americans,” and Walt Whitman called Emerson his “master”.