Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion designer ~ 1946 –
What We Know
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
~ Claude Bernard, Physiologist ~ 1813 – 1878
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil*
*French philosopher, 1909-1943
All Things
“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.”
~ Black Elk, Medicine Man ~ B: Dec. 1, 1863 – D: Aug. 19, 1950
A Pondering Moment
we live
our lives
like laundry
wash-rinse-dry-repeat
Know What A Place Means
“Having a place means that you know what a place means…what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense…Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness”
~ Gary Snyder, Poet ~ Born: May 8, 1930
“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.” ~ Jack Kerouac
“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.” ~ Jack Kerouac*
*”Lonesome Traveler”
“Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.” ~ Bette Davis
Youth has a no age. ~ Pablo Picasso*
*Spanish painter 1881-1973
Cup Of Coffee
“Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, Al Pacino…Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup.”
~ Denis Leary
“Remember, you have no companions but your shadow” ~ Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan, B: May 31, 1162 – D: August 18, 1227
Khagan of the Mongol Empire
Wondering Evermore
out the door
with the
backpack
containing
only with
the basics
of necessities
in order to
find
seek/
search/
and/or locate
the meaning
of truth
that is
does it
truly exist
or is it
a figment
of our
collective
imagination
if so
then can
we say
that the
human race
is living
in a world
of fantasy
will i/we/us
ever figure
it out
I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Life is full of surprises.Why is that always surprising? ~ Cathleen Schine
Emily Deschanel Quote
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Pondering Moment
thinking
the
unthinkable
of an
inconsequential
matter
of no
consequence
what
so ever
Nature hates calculators. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short, Short Story
The half-whacked preacher, is speaking the unspeakable of a lewd and lascivious nature.
I Write Differently ~ Franz Kafka
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
~ Franz Kafka
Truth exists; only lies are invented. ~Georges Braque
Short, Short Story
Caught stealing his neighbor’s newspaper, he declared depraved indifference.
William Blake Poem
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
~ William Blake ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (c. 1803)
In The Universe ~ William Blake
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
~ William Blake, Poet ~ 1757 – 1857
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
It Is So Hard To Leave ~ John Green
It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
~ John Green, Author
Jackson Pollock Quote
“If people would just look at the paintings, I don’t think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It’s like looking at a bed of flowers, you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.”
~ Jackson Pollock, Died: August 11, 1956 ~ 44 y/o
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a cage, in search of a bird. ~ Franz Kafka
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ~ Albert Camus
R.I.P Toni Morrison
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate
A Pondering Moment
may the
slice of
toast land
on the floor
buttered side
facing up
Reading ~ Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, It’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
~ Maya Angelou
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~ Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp, American Dancer
A Pondering Moment
let it go
let it flow
let it go
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher ~ 1889 – 1951
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. ~ Michael Caine
Think
Fantasy is escapist,and that is its glory. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Six Word Story
Pedestrians ignoring the street corner preacher.
Existence has over books. Today I slew a mushroom. ~ Emily Dickinson
Existence is illusory and it is eternal. ~ Albert Camus
Writing ~ P. D. James
“PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview.” Interview with Jake Kerridge, http://www.telegragph.co.uk, Seotember 26, 2009
Born: August 3, 1920 – Died: November 27, 2014
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. ~ Stephen King
You cannot create experience.You must undergo it. ~ Albert Camus
Enjoy Your Life by Audrey Hepburn
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
~ Audrey Hepburn, Actress 1929 – 1993
Anger is a short madness. ~ Horace
Horace, Ancient Roman Poet 65 BC – 8 BC
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ~ Steven Wright
Okay ….
reading
writing
posting
blogging
walking
eating
not
nesesarily
in
that
order
Smarter People ~ Will Rogers
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
~ Will Rogers
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet ~ 1907 – 1973
A Pondering Moment
new day
nothing’s
changed
ho hum
Short, Short Story
Mr Positive debates Mr Negative. Egos clash. Neither comes out a winner. Both egos deflated.
Poetry is language in orbit. ~ Seamus Heaney
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~Thomas Gray
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~Carl Sandburg
Thinking ~ Carl Jung
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” ~ Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty (1998), “Stories, Essays and Memoir”
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?” ~ Rose Kennedy
Who Am I ~ Carl Sandburg
“It is necessary … for a man to go away by himself … to sit on a rock … and ask, ‘Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?”
~ Carl Sandburg, Writer, 1878-1967
Music ~ Albert Einstein
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
~ Albert Einstein
#1 priority is water, water, and more water. ~ Joe Teti
With the high heat and humidity, having/drinking plenty of water, is a good thing.
Short Short Story
Trekking with the numerous lost souls. The journey continues on.
“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.” ~ Paul Valery
Paul Valery, Bizarre, issues 24-31, (p. 102), 1962
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” ~ Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt (1999), Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Six Words
Thinking aloud. Let the world hear.
Money is the poor people’s credit card. ~ Marshall McLuhan
Albert Camus Quote
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” ~ William James
“We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.” ~ Walter Cronkite
Spiritual Expression ~ John Coltrane
Born: September 23, 1926 – Died: July 17, 1967
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud
Anna Freud, Austrian Psychologist
Power and speed be hands and feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” ~ May Sarton
May Sarton, Poet, B: May 3, 1912 – D: July 16, 1995
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. ~ George Santayana
Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wireless ~ Nikola Tesla
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
~ Nikola Tesla, Inventor, 1856 – 1943
People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. ~ Stephen Hawking
A child without education, is like a bird without wings. ~ Tibetan Proverb
“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” ~ Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, B: January 29, 1860 – D: July 15, 1904
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell
Me
I am me
always will be me
no one will
ever change me
as I was born
as me
so
the end result
is a total me
and
I am happy
to be me
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ~ Elizabeth Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny, Born: September 20, 1880 – Died: November 30, 1952
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~ Jeannette Rankin
Time is an illusion-to orators. ~ Elbert Hubbard
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~ Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens, American Poet – 1879 – 1955
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’ ~ William Butler Yeats
Falsehoods And Nonsense ~ Anne Sullivan
It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
~ Anne Sullivan, American Educator
Poetry ~ Jim Morrison
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they say and feel.
~ Jim Morrison
A Pondering Moment
sit back
relax
with
a book
and
try to
put
the heat
and the
high
humidity
behind you
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen
Grace ~ Pablo Neruda
“He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.”
~ Pablo Neruda, Senator of Chile
Born: July 12, 1904 – Died: September 23, 1973
Easy Reading ~ Maya Angelou
War remains the decisive human failure. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The man of science is a poor philosopher. ~ Albert Einstein
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. ~ Bertrand Russell
Incomes ~ John Locke
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”
~ John Locke, Philosopher ~ 1632-1704
Four Words
basking in the sunshine
