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, IContinue reading “Time Away”
Monthly Archives: September 2019
“Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.” ~ W. H. Auden
“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
“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 anContinue reading “Thoughts From A Tired Mind”
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
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 thing that differentiates man from animals is money. ~ Gertrude Stein
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.Continue reading “All the world Began With A Yes”
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
