Without much sleep, I am sitting here, cup of coffee beside me, reading blog posts, and trying to figure out, what the hell am I doing up, when I should have gone back to bed. Of course there’s the nap routine, then there’s countless cups of strong, black coffee. Then there’s just go with the flow, and see what comes of it.
A Good Friend
“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
~ Lois Wyse, Author ~ 1926 – 2007
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
3:00 A.M. ~ London
I’ve been wondering if anything exciting, bad or both happened in London, England, at 3:00 a.m.. GMT. Are there people up and about, and what were they doing, probably some things not wanting to know about.
Smiles And Laughter
“Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.”
~ Debbie Shapiro, Author ~ Born: 1953
Evening Walk ~ Three Photos



Four Words
slouched on the couch
Good
good coffee
good book
good day
life is good
Six Words Redux
Morning thought: coffee, self medicating stimulant.
Six Words
Sunday morning. Somewhat awake. Need coffee.
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.” ~Jonathan Franzen
Evil
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
~ Bret Easton Ellis, Novelist ~ Born: March 7, 1964
Six Word Sunday
Sunday silence. Sunday sun. Sunday serenity.
A Thought
Today is the new normal, to be replaced tomorrow by the new normal, and the next day a new normal will commence. See the pattern? Just a thought.
For What Its Worth
Better to write it right, and/or writes it write.
Six Word Saturday
Naked trees. Crows cawing. Blue sky.
“Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future” ~ Thomas A. Edison
3:00 A.M. ~ A Thought
Quietude and darkness at 3:00 a.m. For most people, both are conducive to a good night’s sleep. Just a thought.
The People Of The United States
“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.”
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Three Words
a beautiful day
3:00 A.M. ~ Quick Fiction
A hot and humid night in the city. People without a/c, having a hard time trying to get any sleep. Some of them choose to go outside, sitting on the stoops at 3:00 a.m. They see there are quite a few of their fellow citizens, doing the same thing. Talking and watching the few cars and trucks pass their homes. After a while some will go back inside, and give sleep another try, knowing in a couple of hours, some will be off to their jobs, and others call in sick.
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Huxley
Meet Your Grandkids

Physicist – Born: January 24, 1947
An Observation
When strolling the sidewalks, and pathways of the parks, you are more than likely will meet some interesting people, from all walks of life.
Six Words
Another night of cold, gusty winds.
Three Words
lost in thoughts
“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. ~Albert Camus
3:00 A.M.
Funny how shit may sometimes happen at 3:00 a.m.
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ~Anthony Burgess
Yeah
Oh happy days
Etched in clay
Oh happy days
In a loving way
Six Words
Coffee: it livens up the mood.
3:00 A.M. ~ Short Fiction
It’s a feeling Tom relishes in life. Driving on the interstate at 3:00 a.m. He loves the freedom of the open road, considering he is one of the few cars, along with the tractor trailers, doing the long haul. When he is cruising at the set speed control, he pops in one of his favorite jazz cds, and it keeps him in a relax state of mind.
Six Words
Strong winds. Power outages. Nature’s doing.
“Invisible things are the only realities.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Six Word Fiction
Doing meditation atop a snow pile.
3:00 A.M. ~ Short Fiction
The strong gusts of wind woke Joann from a sound sleep. She peered at the clock, and it was exactly 3:00 a.m. She got out of bed, and the hardwood floor felt cold. She checked the thermostat, and it was 63 degrees. She turned on the heat, went the bathroom to do her business, and when she was done, and the heat never went on. She checked the thermostat to see if she set it to the right temperature. So her next move was to check the oil tank, and lo and behold, the thank was empty. She went back upstairs, and called her oil company she does business with, and told them she was out of oil, and could they send someone to her home and make a delivery. The woman at the oil company said they can make a delivery within an hour, and there would be a $50.00 surcharge. She asked why about the charge, and she was told that it was off hours, and they had to pay the driver time and a half. If she didn’t want to pay the charge, then she would have to wait till 8:00 a.m., or shortly there after. She decided to have them deliver the much need oil, and vowed never to let it happen again.
When the new heating season begins in the fall, she will have automatic delivery, and so she will never have to go through without oil, ever again.
To Be
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”
~ George Berkeley
“Life’s like a mayonnaise soda.” ~Lou Reed
“All perception is a gamble.” ~Edmund Husserl
Two Sentences
Drumming my fingers on the table. Waiting for the new normal to arrive.
People Know What They Do
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”
~ Michel Foucault, Philosopher – Born: October 15, 1926 – Died: June 25, 1984
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.” ~Averroes
Averroes, Philosopher – Born: April 14, 1126-Died: December 10, 1198
3:00 A.M.
A brand new month is upon us. March, which has 31 days, means there are 31 3:00 a.m.s. Anything may or will happen at that early hour of the morning. Its a wait and see, or beware of the unknown.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
3:00 A.M. ~ So
So, I often wonder what people are doing at 3:00 a.m. Sleeping? Watching TV? Working? Reading a book? Walking the dog? Bathroom run? Just something that I would throw out there, to see what responses would come of it.
The body
“The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.”
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Philosopher ~ 1908-1961
“All consciousness is consciousness of something” ~Edmund Husserl
Six Word Sunday
Good conversation. Great times. Happy people.
One Sentence
She’s 88 years old, and she is by all means peaches and cream, with a dollop of whip cream on top.
We The People

Two Sentences
High sugar content. A diabetic’s nightmare.
Two People
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
~ William James
One Sentence
Even though it is still winter, spring cleaning has begun.
Time is the most unknown of all unknown things. ~Aristotle
Six Word Saturday
Into the void. No exit found.
3:00 A.M. – Short Fiction
It was one those nights, Ned was tossing and turning, and restless. He looked at the alarm clock, and it read 3:00 a.m. He decided to get up, put his clothes on, grabbed his keys and cigarettes, and went for a walk. The air was warm, and the stars were shining. It felt good to walk in the quiet solitude, of the tree lined street he resides on.
When he returned home, he felt like a new man, and the stroll helped clean out the cobwebs in his head. After all was said and done, Ned went back to bed, and before you know it, he was out like a light.
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading A Novel
“Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist’s head, and you invest many hours to do so.”
~ Jay McInerney
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” ~William Ralph Inge
Hard Work
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
~ Stephen King
3:00 A.M. The Village Square -Short Fiction
The village square is for the most of the time, relatively dead, that you can hear a pin drop on the steel grating. But on this early morning hour at 3:00 a.m., accompanied by a full moon, and a few scattered clouds creeping by, something odd was happening. There were a pack of dogs chasing a man. His face was panic stricken, and hollering for help, but no one bothered to call the local sheriff.
Two hours went by, when a driver for the bread and pastries company was making a delivery to the diner, when he found a man’s body mauled to death. The man was so badly bitten and scratched, was close to being unrecognizable. The sheriff along with the county sheriff, and the state police, are puzzled as to why nobody heard the man’s screams for help.
To this day, it is still an open case, and eventually become a cold case file.
Two Sentences
Life’s short. Make the best of it.
Six Words Redux
Do it yourself, works for me.
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~George Harrison
Six Words
High on life is all good.
Wrong Planet
“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?”
~ George Harrison – Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001
Being Here Now

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
3:00 A.M. Downtown – Short Fiction
A late winter storm, dumping copious amounts of snow on the streets and avenues, in the downtown area. Its 3:00 a.m., not a soul to be seen venturing in the deepening snow. Even the plows are having a hard time keeping the roads cleared. The only places that are still open, are a 24 hour mini mart, and a drug store, neither of the doing much business at all.
The pandemic has a done a number on quite a few businesses, and some of them have shuttered for good. So, with the economy tanking, and now the latest storm, won’t help most of the remaining stores, as it will keep the pedestrians home, and will have to put up with more cabin fever, which they have been going through for the past 11 months.
They feel that its a never ending story.
Materials Of Knowledge
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
~ John Locke
“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux
“Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.” ~Paul Auster
“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” ~Tom Stoppard
3:00 A.M. – A Short Story
Every morning, at 3:00 a.m., you will find an elderly gentleman, sitting in his favorite booth, having a cup of coffee. He has been patronizing this certain coffee shop, since he retired many years ago from the book editing job, that he had for over 35 years.
He usually is the only one there, and he has gotten use to the solitude he enjoys. It doesn’t matter what the weather is like. It can be cold, hot and humid, raining or snowing, it will not stop him from walking the two blocks from where he lives in a high rise downtown apartment.
When he’s finished his coffee, he will take one to go, and then stop at the kiosk, and by the morning newspaper. Later in the day, he will take a nap, recharge his batteries, and then he will go about whatever he feels like doing.
“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke
Back In Time
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”
~ Harvey Mackay
One Sentence
Let’s get along, for no other reason than to get along.
“To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.” ~ John Keats
For What Its Worth
Moving forward. Not looking back. What’s the point of it.
“Life is a constant process of dying.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Majority Of Men
“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher – 1788-1860
Suddenly Wake Up
“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?”
~ Jack Kerouac
So
The expression, “you’re older than dirt.” So, how old is dirt?
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~Jack Kerouac
Six Words Sunday
Lazy day. Idling by. Forward moving.
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” ~Baruch Spinoza
Two Sentences
Orbiting the sun for 72 years plus. An experience of many dimensions.
Life Is One Big Road
“Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don’t you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.”
~ Bob Marley
The Charming Gardeners
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
~ Marcel Proust
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. ~Carl Jung
To be is to be perceived. (Esse est percipi) ~Bishop ~George Berkeley
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Six Word Saturday
Walking in freshly falling snow. Heavenly.
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ~Thomas A. Edison
Its Worth It
I wear a mask in public, to protect you and me. Its the right thing to do.
Six Word Story
Watching the canary do his thing.