Like to dabble in B&W, and/or Monochrome photos. So far, so good.
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A little of this. A little of that.
Like to dabble in B&W, and/or Monochrome photos. So far, so good.
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Darkness comes earlier each and every passing day.
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“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”
Wendell Berry
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
Brian Eno
Ain’t that the truth.
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
Gary Wolf
American Journalist
Autumn is definitely here.
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“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffet
Ask not what you can do for your
country. Ask whats for lunch.
Orson Welles
Photo was taken on the 21st, well before the worst of the storm hit late last night. Constant heavy rain and windy as all hell. Gotta love New England weather.
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You never know who’s swimming
naked until the tide goes out.
Warren Buffet
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.”
-Noam Chomsky
Took this photo a couple of days ago. In a few more days, the rest of the green leaves will be turning red, then it will be bare till next spring.
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“Be curious, not judgemental.”
Walt Whitman
Don’t use the phone.
People are never ready
to answer it. Use poetry.
Your beliefs become your thoughts.
Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your actions.
Your actions become your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. “
–Marcus Aurelius
Wind blowing
Leaves falling
Day closer to winter
A Pondering Mind 10/19/2014
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice”
–Stephen Hawking
From the email archive.
Photographer unknown
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -George Santayana
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From the email archive:
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
– Voltaire
“I just couldn’t take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that’s about all I did at school.”
– Alvin Lee
Nothing like a mug of coffee, to kick start the day, and to keep going all day long.
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“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ”
–Buddha
Talk about ‘how time flies.’
Just heard a song
on the radio.
“Can I Get a Witness”
by Marvin Gaye.
The song goes
back to the ’60s.
It brought back memories,
some good, so bad, and so-so.
Yes, ‘how time flies.’
A Pondering Mind 10/12/2014
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Another one of my attempts of sketching/doodling. Practice makes it perfect, so they say.
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ”
–Martin Luther King
“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion”
– Alexander the Great
“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life.”
–Frank Herbert
Photo taken at 2:21 PM.
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen
The article is from The Guardian on line. Found it to be an enlightening read.
My top 10 unfinishable novels
Found in the email.
Mature Humans
How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before
you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or
understand a word they said?
I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of
cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front.
Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants never get
dirty, and you can wear them forever.
Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber &
dumber every year?
There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re
sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a
little too far.
As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate
drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I
always hate bicyclists.
Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times
and still not know what time it is.
Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their
car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail
on the Donkey – but I’d bet my behind everyone can find and push
the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes
closed, first time, every time!
I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not
to answer when they call.
Found in the email.
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
–Robert Frost
“Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.”
– Bhimrao R. Ambedkar
You over slept. The milk in the fridge has turned sour. The dog took a dump on the living room floor. You get in the car and the battery is dead as a door nail. Call for a taxi for a ride to the train station. You arrive five minutes late, and the last morning train to the city has already left. You call your boss to tell him what happened, and he his pissed off.
What to do now that the day has turned to shit? Grin and bear it. Shit happens.
“You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.”
–Frank Herbert
When I see blue sky with a smattering of clouds, it makes me happy. This my fellow readers, is all I need. Don’t need religion, nor read the bible. Don’t need to be told how to enjoy life. I am just basically one happy man, that likes solitude, peace of mind, and quietness.
The coffee tastes so much better, when I’m in a Zen moment. It makes the day much easier to enjoy, and live life to the fullest.
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“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
–Nathaniel Hawthorne
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
Mary Pickford
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
–John Locke
Photo was the previous night.
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“Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.”
– Stephen Fry
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and
of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Chinese Proverb
Source: enproverbia
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