Saw the diabetes doc (on Tuesday), and the great news is that my A1c is 6.2 which is good. No need for insulin which I have stopped using since the end of September. I only need to see him one more time, that being at the beginning of June. He told me I was doing everything right, and to keep doing what I am doing, and I shouldn’t have any more problems.
I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak. ~John Goodman
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ~Albert Einstein
The morning cup of coffee …..
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” ~Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies, 1913 – 1995, Novelist
People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
-J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 –
Water And Life
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Life is …..
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
~Albert Einstein
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. ~Stan Laurel
“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” ~Albert Einstein
To laugh often ……
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who as a physical being …..
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
~Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. -Bertrand Russell
Money has never made man happy ….
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
~Benjamin Franklin
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan
Life isn’t all haha hehe. ~ Meera Syal
Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~Sam Cawthorn
Life
life it is what it is: life
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? ~James Thurber
James Thurber – American Author and Comedian ~ 1894 – 1961
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one was has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author
“We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves.” ~Steven M. Greer
Steven M. Greer, Medical Doctor
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain
“More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting” ~Martin Scorsese
If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat! ~Demitri Martin
Demitri Martin, American Comedian
People like us, …..
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~Albert Einstein
The future is a concept …..
“The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”
~ Alan Watts
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Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ~ Albert Einstein
Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~Sigmund Freud
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ~Dale Carnegie
If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook
It’s kind of a zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? -Lee Child
To know and not to do is not yet to know. -Zen Wisdom
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. ~Alfred North Whitehead.
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. -Richard Helms
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ~Karl Marx
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~Albert Einstein
“The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition”. Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” ~Jim Morrison
“Readers recommend: songs about control” by Peter Kimpton, http://www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.
Thinking Silently
thinking silently
a smattering
of thoughts
are swirling
in my mind
nothing bad
nothing harmful
nothing slanderous
just normal
thinking
that I usually
do throughout
the course
of the day
Outlook
what keeps
me going
one step at a time
one day at a time
think positive
watch what i eat
drink plenty of water
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
Practice any art ….
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School” by Emily Thomas, http://www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014. 
A Man who lies to himself ….
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.”
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The Brothers Karamazov”. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 – 1880.
Movies are not novels ….
Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done.
~Paul Auster
“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.” ~Russell Means
Russell Means, B. November 10, 1939 – D. October 22, 2012
It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. ~Al Pacino
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” ~Sheryl Sandberg
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
“As I See Religion”. Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932. Preacher, 1878 – 1969
Thinking
brainstorming + bottomless mugs of strong black coffee >>> produces wild and wacky ideas
Just Thinking
nobody
ever said
that writing
comes easy
Nudists have no fashion sense. ~Peter Kunkel
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ~ Marie Curie
“Living Adventures in Science”. Book by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1954.
“‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.” ~ Mark Twain
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles
Book Reading
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Bookstores
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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. – Charles Kingsley
Coffee – Books
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I could do this all day, and night too.
Six Word Story
Her radiant smile, says it all.
I went a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section’? She said if you she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – George Carlin
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.” Paulo Coelho
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
I Love Books
I Love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting than yours will ever be.
-Elizabeth Scott
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. ~ David Mamet
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin
In art as in love, instinct is enough. ~ Anatole France
Anatole France – French Novelist
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~ Muhammad Ali
Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
You can never plan the future by the past. ~ Edmund Burke
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~ James Thurber
James Thurber, American Author ~ 1894 – 1961
Not Exactly – A Short Story
the middle-age couple, go at it, day and night. always arguing. talking very loud, loud enough to be heard at least a block away. the police have made numerous visits, and have warned them many a time, to cool their jets, or else they will get their asses hauled off to the precinct house. most of the time, they will obey the cops, and keep it down, yet…a day doesn’t go by that the couple erupts into another explosion, of an explosion of screaming and hollering. they’re not exactly the junes and wards cleavers of the world.
Freedom ~ Abraham Lincoln
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“everyone tells you what’s good for you. they don’t want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.” ~ Dan Millman
Try saying hello to someone who wouldn’t expect you to – today would be a good. ~ John Avery
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein
Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death. ~ Edna Ferber
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
Just A Thought
big is bulky
small is beautiful
it’s all good
Update
Now that I am no longer injecting insulin, the glucose (sugar) level(s) are good. It took a little work get to this point, as I watch what and how much I eat, and that’s a good thing, as it works out in my favor.
When I was diagnosed and told that I have type 2 diabetes, it made me think, which I did a lot of, I was not going to let it get the best of me, that I was going to give it a good kick in the ass, along with quitting smoking, to make myself healthier, and be happy about it. The end result, it worked.
Be
Accept who you are
Be who you are
Think for yourself
Enjoy life
Liberty ~ Benjamin Franklin
Time Away
I’m taking some much needed time away from blogging. I need to concentrate on my diabetes, as I am no longer on insulin. I feel great, but there are the moments when the sugar level is a bit high. I don’t fret over it, as I know what to do.
When will I return, I have no idea.
“Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.” ~ W. H. Auden
“How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
“How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ~ Margaret Fuller
“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?” ~ Edgar Degas
Three Things
bloggers blogging
poets posting
writers writing
Learning never exhausts the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. ~ Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm, English Essayist ~ 1872 – 1956
This Is Your Life!
“I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'”
~ J. California Cooper, Playwright ~ B: November 10, 1931 – D: September 20. 2014
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