haven’t left the blogosphere….
and it hasn’t left me
Coffee Quote
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Yup!
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so ….
I’ve been on a book binge buying kick
… books mostly written by Jack Kerouac,
John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassidy, and
William S. Burroughs … all beat generation
writers … and still waiting for four more
books by Kerouac, from Blackwell’s in Oxford,
United Kingdom is one of my favorite stores
to by books, the prices are reasonable,
and shipping is free to the US … Amazon
is another place I got to for books ….
also needed new glasses as my eyesight is
a bit weaker, so I decided to keep the
frames as they are very comfortable. and
had the news lenses put in … now I’m
good to go for another year …
Flash Fiction
Ideas come to mind
Poof!
Gone. Dead as a door nail.
Flat like a deflated tire.
Going nowhere.
Back to the drawing board….
don’t have one… pens are dried up
out of pencils … so
ah …. the hell with it
One Person
Take It Easy
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Panic …. Not Planning On It
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Time
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Book Collecting
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, a fate.
hmmmmmmmmmm
Don’t ….
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Free Will
You can choose whatever you desire, but you’re not free to choose your desires.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
So …..
the beat writer
Jack Kerouac’s
real name is
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
just wanted to throw
this tid bit of
information out there
Day 2
golly gee willikers
day 2 of
howling winds
need to hold
onto your hat
or whatever
light stuff
you are toting
la de dah
tumble weeds
tumbling
and ….
its a shitty
weather day
so its a good
day to do the
a load of laundry
ho hum
dumpty dump
yada yada yada
a really good question
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Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom – May 1, 2009 – May 10, 2019
Born in Glasgow, Scotland
its ……
friday afternoon
sitting on the
couch ….
in a relaxed
state of mind …
and
watching the
world go by
sooooo …..
i am here
so ….
where else
would i be
if i was not
here … but
i am here …
but in all
probability
i may or
knowingly be
someplace else
…
right at this
moment i am here
Hello
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One of my all time favorite sayings
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Kitten In Hoodie
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Checking In
alive and kicking
feeling great
another year older
yada yada yada
A Quick Reversal
Around 5:30 this morning it 58 degrees and windy. About three hours later, the wind shifted direction, lo and behold the air suddenly got chilly, and had to close the window.
Later on I went for a walk and the wind was really doing its thing, and walking into the teeth of it, that felt like a knife was going through you.
It is a hang onto your hat kind of day.
Beauty
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One Word
Six Words
living
one
day
at
a
time
Currently Reading
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, is a Scottish novelist. It was written 29 years ago, and is about a raw depiction of Edinburgh life. It is different as far as getting through the way the Scots talk.
Question
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Snow
Lots and lots
of snow
How much snow
have no idea
Lots and lots
of wind
All I know
it was windy
really windy
Anyway
Its winter
Its January
It comes with
the territory
Waiting
Waiting for the big storm to hit.
Suppose to start around
midnight or there abouts.
Expecting anywhere from a
foot and half to 2 feet.
Calling it a blizzard
with white out conditions
and a lot of wind to boot.
Oh well … its winter
and I can live with it …
so there’s no sense bitching
about it.
Currently Reading
Destiny, a book by Tim Parks. Its a good read, but the one thing that I don’t care for, is a lot of the paragraphs are anywhere from 2 to 3 pages long, and that can slow down time of getting through the book.
She definitely needs more coffee
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Repeat
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So True
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A True Winter Day
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At 7:00 a.m. it was 1 degree below zero, with a wind chill of 18 below.
Reading….
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what read ours.
-John Locke
This And That
Suppose we wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
-Jack Kerouac
The Moon
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Life
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments
you make the better.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
its ….
thursday morning
had my coffee
with more to
imbibe…now
i sit and
drumming my
fingers on
the table
am i thinking
or bored
or a combination
of both
Health will improve almost at once when worrying ends. ~Neale Donald Walsch
Money Is Numbers
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
- Bob Marley
Man And Nature
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. ~Anais Nin
Three Words
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Question
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Story is a metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee
Four Words
hmmmm
the 1st
Monday of
the year
2022
with 51
more of
them to
come
good karma
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Same old, same old
same shit different day
same shit different month
same shit different year
and it goes on and on and …
January
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
Having A Frustrating Day, Then The Advice On The Wall Is A Good Idea
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Winter Wonderland
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Silhouette Of Man On Cliff
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…the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS… ~Emily Dickinson
Source: quote garden
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” ~John Green
Today
Yesterday I got the booster shot.
Today, having blood work done, and A1c level checked.
With that said, I feel great.
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.” ~Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett, Philosopher
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” ~Christopher Hitchens
Change
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~ Alan Watts
Don’t Worry
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Four Words
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation. ~Sinclair Lewis
Nothing In The World Is Permanent
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.” ~John Locke
Purple and White Petaled Flower
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More ….
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Hopefully ….
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Three Words
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Coffee Cup Inspiration
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Any Readers Know Who This Guy Is Or Was
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Two Words
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Polar Bear Cub
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Reading Cartoon
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December
When dark December glooms the day,
And takes our autumn joys away;
When short and scant the sun-beam throws,
Upon the weary waste of snows…
~Walter Scott, Marmion, 1808
Source: Quote Garden
The Sign Says It All
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“Don’t run too fast through life. You only have one.” ~ Bo Jackson
Alertness
drink water
to stay
hydrated …
drink coffee
to stay
awake …
and alert
The best place to solve a problem is on paper. ~Jim Rohn
A
good book
good coffee
a comfortable
place to
do it
This is how it’s done
Feelings
Meditation – Silhouette Image
Not ready to do this
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One Word
The Earth Has Rights, Too
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.”
~ Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
One Word
Opinions
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
~ John Locke
I heed her advice
International Community Of Readers
“More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don’t decry it or criticize it – it’s just a fact.”
~ Tim Parks, Novelist
The World We See
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
~ William James
Expression Of An Opinion
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
~ John Stuart Mill
“Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?” ~John Locke
Looking for a book I’ve been badly wanting to read. Where do I begin?
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Silhouette Photo of a woman looking out the window
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“Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.” ~John Dewey
John Dewey – Philosopher, 1859 – 1952
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