Monthly Archives: July 2019
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.
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
A child without education, is like a bird without wings. ~ Tibetan Proverb
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
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
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
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller
To see the Summer Sky ~ Emily Dickinson
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee – ~Emily Dickinson, c.1879
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~ Okakura Kakuzo
Be as you wish to seem. ~ Socrates
Six Words
Delicious hollandaise sauce on meatloaf extraordinaire
Read Everything ~ William Faulkner
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ~ William Faulkner, Born:Continue reading “Read Everything ~ William Faulkner”
Nothing Is Absolute ~ Frida Kahlo
Born: July 6, 1907 – Died: July 13, 1954
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg
G. C. Lichtenberg, German writer and physicist 1742-1799
Benign Indifference To The Universe ~ Albert Camus
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference to the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. ~ Albert Camus
In an infinite Universe anything can happen. ~ Douglas Adams
If you rest, you rust. ~Helen Hayes
Just Thinking
stale bread makes lousy sandwiches
My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. ~ Anne Tyler
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky
Books are the carriers of civilization …
Books are the carriers of civilization … They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
Six Word Story
Traveling the infinite highway to freedom.
The City
people on the stoops watching the passersby hydrants open spraying cool water on the neighborhood kids ice cream truck has arrived people lining up to buy and enjoy an ice cream or something cold to drink to hot cook inside so pizza and sandwiches are the meals for the hungry the ones without a/c sufferContinue reading “The City”
Just Thinking
If Jack Kerouac were alive what would be his thoughts of the state of affairs this country It would surely be an interesting read
