Richard Rohr: 

In the second half of life, you have begun to live and experience the joy of your inner purpose. The outer purpose and goals matter less and less and have less power over you. You are much more self-possessed and grounded. At one and the same time, you know what you do know (but now deeply and quietly), and you also know what you do not know. Only people who are comfortable not knowing can usually smile. People who are preoccupied with “I know” have little space for smiling.

A creative tension in the second half of life, knowing what you know and knowing what you don’t know, is a necessary one. All you know is that it is foundationally all right, despite the seeming contradictions and conflict. That’s why the holy old man can laugh and the holy old woman can smile. I heard recently that a typical small child smiles three hundred times a day and typical old men smile three times a day in our culture. What has happened between six and sixty?

“Peace begins with a smile..”  Mother Teresa

~Unknown

Via Treehugger:

With the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, the London Array, opening in the UK earlier this year, it’s probably no surprise that the country’s offshore wind capacity grew considerably.

By eighty percent, in fact.

As Renewable Energy World reports, the London Array was not the only large offshore installation driving this dramatic growth:

In the period from July 2012 to June 2013, capacity increased from 1,858 MW to 3,321 MW, boosted by four huge wind farms becoming operational – Greater Gabbard, Gunfleet Sands III, Sheringham Shoal, and London Array (pictured), which at 630 MW is currently the biggest offshore wind farm in the world.