“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”
~ Langston Hughes
A little of this. A little of that.
“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”
~ Langston Hughes
Soon, better days are coming. Maybe.
Today is one of those days, that I can’t seem to get myself motivated to do anything. Maybe its good thing, and let the idle body’s batteries recharge, then I will be good to go.
“Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else’s.”
~ Joe Bob Briggs, Film critic
Mug of hot coffee. All good.
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Cold. Not record cold. Just cold!
What is the big deal with putting ketchup on scrambled eggs? I’ll admit that I will put it on. It all depends on how much I really want ketchup or not. But, I do love black pepper on my eggs.
The wind tells a unique tale.
“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
~ Robert Frost
Kicking back. Relaxed. Long day, done.
Walking helps control my glucose levels, bodyweight and clears out the head. With that said, I feel good about my body and mind.
Everyday is a new day, and different from yesterday. Tomorrow will be different than today.
Read a book. Nourishing mind food.
Gazing into space. Contemplating what if.
“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.”
~ Laozi
President Joe Biden wears a $10,000 Rolex watch. Some people on the right are making a big deal of it. Me personally, I really don’t give a fuck what he wears. Give me a break.
Another gusty windy day. Oh my.
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
~ Theophile Gautier
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Windy and cold
Wind chill factors
Its January
Its winter
This is what its all about
The canary is tweeting his songs.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Its 4:24 PM, all is good.
The day has finally arrived. Four years of clownish, inept, buffoonery, hell, has come to a close. At 12:00 noon, January 20, 2021 will be the beginning of a new, saner and hopefully get things done, president.
Zip, zero, nada, nil, the big O days left. Done, finished, the end.
Change is good, replied the cashier.
Four years of whatever you want to call it, soon will be just a distant memory. History will not treat it kindly.
One day and/or 24 hours to go. Then it will be the day we’ve been anticipating for, January 20, 2021.
1/20/2021. The end is in sight.
2 yup 2 days left till January 20
Did you hear? No I didn’t.
“Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Yesterday was the old norm.
Today, the new one.
Tomorrow?
Slip, sliding, spinning on the ice.
3 days till January 20
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Pouring rain. Walking outdoors on standby.
4 days till January 20
5 days left till January 20. Getting close.
6 days till January 20
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
~ Elie Wiesel
7 days till January 20
Shortly afternoon time, I got my first Covid-19 vaccine shot. The second will be three weeks from now, February 2.
8 days till January 20, and hopefully, the ugliness ends in Washington.
9 days till January 20.
New day. New challenges, or not.
Beautiful day to kick back. Yep!
New year. New month. New day.
10 days till January 20. The end is in sight.
Brand new day. Same old shit.
11 days left for the clown show to exit on January 20
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
~ Mwai Kibaki
12 days till January 20
13 days till January 20
14 days till January 20
15 days till January 20
“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”
~ T. S. Eliot
16 days till the orange man exits the White House on January 20.
“The journey, Not the destination matters.”
~ T. S. Eliot
Sunday frame of mind. All good.
17 days till January 20
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
~ Agatha Christie
2020 finished. Time to move on.
“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.”
~ Neil Gaiman
18 days till January 20
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
~ Shirley Chisholm
19 days till January 20. Hopefully, things get better.