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I memorized the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet months ago, and recite it nearly daily. It's longer than you think, and is a powerful meditation on life and motivation, fear, and the unknown. To find some good 3 minute videos of actors performing these lines, click here. Watch Branaugh and Gibson for very different takes.

One of the best books in the past year or more, G&T is a wonderful look at how givers can rise high. Grant is the youngest tenured professor at Wharton and its most popular teacher. Here, he shows why! A really good book.

We hope this guide has been helpful! WEN offers a variety of straight-blade planers (models PL1252 and PL1303) and jointers (model JT3062) to suit your needs, as well as spiral-blade models (planer models PL1326 and PL1337, and jointer models JT630H, JT833H, JT1020H, and JT1224H). If you have any questions about the information in this article, or want help deciding which planer or jointer is right for you, please give us a call at 1-847-429-9263 (M - F, 8 - 5 CST) or drop us a message here to talk to our friendly and knowledgeable technical support team. Now go make some sawdust!

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My friend Bill Powers writes on how to handle the technology in your life and stay sane. A beautiful meditation on how we've always struggled with the new new thing, and sometimes win. Recommended!

Maybe, my favorite book of all time. Published in 1905, it's a charming and compelling tale about the power of the imagination and simple kindness in dealing with great difficulties. You'll love it. Click the cover to find it on Amazon!

A frequent inspiration. Monday, 30, April 2012. Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli perform "Time to Say Goodbye." Notice how they indwell the lyrics, and still manage to relate to each other so demonstratively.

Each circle, starting with the first, is to be tended to, nurtured, and grown in a healthy way, and is to be helpfully open to the next larger circles to come. We're never to get stuck in ego, or just in a family, or a neighborhood, or in a nation, in our sense of self identity and affiliation and value. As the ancient philosopher Diogenes once said, "I am a citizen of the world." Healthy self identity, and healthy affiliation at each level, is open to, and allows for, greater affiliations as well. Then, those come back and enhance the inner circles they encompass.

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My favorite website to visit nearly every day. Maria Popova may read more and write more than any other human being on earth, and her reports are always amazingly interesting. This is really brain candy, but with serious nutritional benefits as well. Visit her often!

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I happened across this great book on death and life after death. Because of some uncanny experiences surrounding the death of her father and sister, this journalist began to research issues involving death. Her conclusions are careful and well documented. If you're interested in this topic, you'll find this book clear, fascinating, and helpful. A Must Read! For my recent conversation with the author on HuffPo, click here.

When I was youngI thought I could fly.If I ran just rightI'd rise into the skyand go over the yard and the house and the treesuntil, floating a bit,I'd catch a good breezeand neighbors would seeand squint into the sunand say "Come here and lookat what this kid has done!"I'd continue to rise,and with such a big smile,my grin could be viewedat least for a mile.And, even todayI think, if I try,the time may yet comewhen I'll rise up and fly. (TM)

If you're looking for a new planer or jointer, you've probably seen the wide variety of terms around a particular cutterhead - straight-blade, spiral-blade, helical, and more. Fret not, dear reader - your friends at WEN are here to offer some advice and clarity to make your purchasing decision easier.

The most premium arrangement, these blades are mounted on specialized cutterheads, with many cutting inserts placed close together and arranged around the cutterhead in a helical pattern. This leaves a superior finish on the workpiece. However, helical cutterheads tend to be very expensive - sometimes more so than an entire thickness planer - and are best suited for professional woodworkers. They are often available as aftermarket accessories.

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A favorite performance of the great Brazilian bossa nova song Wave, by Tom Jobim. Notice Marjorie Estiano's fun, the older guitarist's passion, the flutist's zen. Marjorie's little laugh at the end says it all. That should be how we all feel about our work. Gladness. Joy.

Long ago and far away, on a Hollywood sound stage, I appeared in two network ads for the wise Pooh, to promote his adventures on Disney Home Videos. For two years, I was The National Spokesman for that most philosophical bear. This is one of the ads. I had a bad case of the flu but I hope you can't tell. A-Choo!

This is a beautiful and difficult book on the odd relationship between repeated failure and eventual success. It's full of great stories and moments of meditation. You will find yourself teasing out the insights, but they're powerful and worth the work.

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Five Years ago, a friend surprised me by creating an online shop of stuff based on my Twitter Feed. I had forgotten all about it, but stumbled across it today. I should get this shirt for when I'm an old man, and have my home address printed on the back, along with, "Return if Found." Click to see the other stuff! I do love the dog sweaters.

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But of course, when we speak of being tolerant, open, appreciative, and even celebratory of others, we don't mean that we should ever embrace what strikes our most enlightened moral sensibilities as just wrong or unjust. What we're to learn from each other should never take us to a worse place, only to a better stage in our own understanding and sensibilities.

Another Musical Interlude. Two guys with guitars, one an unusual classical seven string, one a bass, but playing chords.

Imagine life as involving a series of concentric circles representing your spheres of action and involvement. At the center is the inner and outer you. The next circle out is your family - both of birth and of choice - along with your closest friendships. The next circle yet is your neighborhood and your workplace. The next one out is your overall community. Then there is your state, or province, your nation, and the broader world, and perhaps even more.

Cat videos go philosophical. The now famous Henri Le Chat Noir, existential hero. Click image for the first video I saw and loved.

A step up from straight blades, these blades are found on higher-end machines, and are often preferred by experienced woodworkers for the excellent finish they leave on the wood - in some situations, sanding may not even be necessary. This is because instead of being one continuous piece of steel, they are segmented inserts spaced evenly across the tool's cutterhead. Think of them as the piranha counterpart to the straight blade's shark - they take many small bites out of the wood at a time, instead of one large chomp, producing the aforementioned finish. Additionally, many spiral blades are two- or four-sided, allowing you to rotate the cutting edges and get extended service life from your blades before replacing them. Spiral-blade machines tend to be more expensive than their straight-blade counterparts.

Perhaps the most common type of planer or jointer blade, these are exactly as the name suggests - straight and long. They're usually found on planers and jointers best suited to beginning or intermediate woodworkers. They're easy to replace and leave a good general-purpose finish on the wood, making any final sanding a breeze.

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We're never to be stuck in any form of narrow thought that cuts us off from others. One of the biggest mistakes seen around the world is exactly that - an exclusivity of allegiance that turns others into threats and enemies. But, as my friend Vinod put it in a conversation we just had in the gym, "There are places where Sunnis work with Shiites in harmony and with shared purposes. This is how it should be." International business wants to bring the world together. International rivalries and exclusivist tribalisms want to pull the world apart. We can never fully flourish without being, in turn, tolerant, open, appreciative, and even celebratory of our differences. Tolerance is never enough, though it's the logical place to start, and hard enough for many people. But it's meant to be a door into a more positive understanding and appreciation, and even appropriation. We all have insights. And we all have errors. We can learn from each other. And we need to, in order for things to go well.

This is a book I read recently, and it's one of the best I've read in years on happiness and success. Shawn helped teach the famous Harvard course on happiness, and brings the best of that research and more into this great book. Click on it. I think you'll like it!

Different grades of steel are often available for more choice within the range - some offer better durability or edge retention, others better finish, etc. WEN offers SK5 and M2 planer blades for all our straight-blade thickness planer models, and SK5 blades for our straight-blade jointer. As you gain experience, consider experimenting with different blade materials on different wood species to find the best balance for you.

I hope you'll go through the day with an enhanced appreciation of all your concentric circles. You are a citizen of the world.

One of my newest talk topics is "Plato's Lemonade Stand: Stirring Change into Something Great." Based on the old adage, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade," this talk is about how to do exactly that. Inquire for my availability through the contact page above! Let's stir something up!