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 […]
Monthly Archives: September 2019
“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 […]
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~ Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Thoughts From A Tired Mind
hot searing sun broiling the desert not a house or any building to be seen for as far as the eye can see carcasses of long ago dead animals litter the ground rattle snakes hissing scorpions and black widows crawling seeking to bite and deposit their deadly venom no water to be found not an […]
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil
“You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.” ~ Mooji
Mooji, Teacher ~ Born: January 29, 1954
“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” ~ Agatha Christie
Thinking ~ Agatha Christie
“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie, B: September 15, 1890 – D. January 12, 1976
The Health Of The Eye
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. ~ John Locke
John Locke, English Philosopher ~ 1632 – 1704
Voting ~ David Foster Wallace
“In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.” ~ David Foster Wallace, Novelist ~ B: February 21, 1962 – D: September 12, 2008 “Up, Simba!”. Essay by David Foster Wallace, September 2000.
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
“Society exists only as a concept in the real world there are only individuals.” ~Oscar Wilde
Brain Cramp
have no idea what to write
Controlled Citizens.” ~ Thomas Szasz
“The FDA calls certain substances “controlled.” But there are no “controlled substances,” there are only controlled citizens.” ~ Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist
What Life’s All About
“At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.” ~ Janis Ian, Singer-songwriter
Traveling Is Like Flirting
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~ William Blake
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. ~ Gertrude Stein
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~ Genevan philosopher ~ 1712 – 1778
So…
tired spent done in worn out lethargic listless and whatever else
All the world Began With A Yes
“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. […]
The Joy Of Reading Fiction
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or hers imagination. ~ Alice Hoffman
In reality, every reader is, while reading,the reader of his own self. ~ Marcel Proust
Learning To Relax
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ~ William S. Burroughs
