Month: December 2020
Counting Down The Days
20 days left until January 20, 2021
“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” ~ Patti Smith
The Wonder Remains
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
~ Alfred North Whitehead
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21 days till January 20, 2021
“There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.” ~Alfred North Whitehead
To think is to differ. ~Clarence Darrow
For What Its Worth
Only two days left of 2020, then we can put this upside down year, in the rear view mirror.
Counting Down The Days
22 days until orange man is done on January 20, 2021
Living In The Past
“Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.”
~ Harold MacMillan
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” ~ Baz Luhrmann*
*Film director
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23 days till January 20, 2021
“A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.” ~Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov, Bulgarian Philosopher – July 11, 1864 – December 27, 1944
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24 days left till January 20, 2021
Six Word Saturday
Yesterday’s rain washed the snow away.
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25 days till January 20, 2021
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26 days till January 20, 2021
The World We See
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
~ William James
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27 days till January 20, 2021
Time Heals
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
~ Rose Kennedy
Counting Down The Days
28 days till January 20, 2021
Bad Poetry
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Counting Down The Days
29 days till he is gone on January 20, 2021
The Greatest Adventure
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.”
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
Counting Down The Days
30 days till January 20, 2021
We Need To Write
“We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what’s hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.”
~Sandra Cisneros
Counting Down The Days
31 days till January 20, 2021
Six Word Saturday
Walking on crunchy snow. Beautiful feeling.
Natural Healing Force
“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.”
~ Hippocrates
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32 days till normalcy returns on January 20, 2021
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33 days till January 20, 2021
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34 days till January 20, 2021
“Why should things be easy to understand?” ~ Thomas Pynchon
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35 days till Biden/Harris take over on January 20, 2021
Novels Are Fictions
“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.”
~ Paul Auster
Read What You Want To Read
“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”
~ Joyce Carol Oates
“The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.” ~Gene Simmons
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36 days till January 20, 2021
“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.” ~Dante Alighieri
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37 days till you know who is out the door on January 20, 2021.
Learning never exhausts the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth
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38 days till January 20, 2021
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39 days till January 20, 2021
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40 days till January 20, 2021.
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41 days till January 20, 2021, when sanity returns.
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42 days till January 20, 2021
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43 days to till January 20, 2021
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44 days to go. Hence: January 20, 2021
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45 days till you know who is out of office come January 20, 2021
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46 days till January 20, 2021
For What Its Worth
When Joe Biden becomes the next president, he will have something in common with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. That is cleaning up the economic mess that was created by their predecessors: Reagan/Bush 41, and Bush 43. Biden does have a tough road ahead of him, with dealing with the economy, pandemic, etc., etc. …
“It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.” ~ Claude Monet
Counting Down The Days
47 days till January 20, 2021
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48 days till January 20, 2021
Leadership
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
~ Rosalynn Carter
Three Friends
“We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.”
~ Michelle Obama
The Wise Man
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Counting Down The Days
49 days till January 20, 2021
We think to much and feel to little. ~Charlie Chaplin
Counting Down The Days
50 days till January 20, 2021
A Pondering Mind 