Monthly Archives: July 2019
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reading writing posting blogging walking eating not nesesarily in that order
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.
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” ~ Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty (1998), “Stories, Essays and Memoir”
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.
“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
“We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.” ~ Walter Cronkite
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
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
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
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
