All I have to say is that I am tired and at a loss for words. With that being said, tomorrow is another day.
Author: A Pondering Mind
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It Happens ~ Short Story
So Bob is off to the store for milk, and lo and behold they’re all sold out and the store clerk said he doesn’t know when they will get a delivery, as the cows local union 69 are on strike for fair wages as the cows shop steward have had it with the farmers and dairy owners pocketing all the money and the cows who producing a product that families and individuals need for their morning breakfast, so now the kids have to use water or a soda to pour on the cereal, plus the parents have to do without for their tea and/or coffee. In the meantime the clerk told Bob shit happens.
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Monday’s Quote
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
~ John Lennon
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Climate-Change Deniers
“The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.”
~ Johann Hari
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Sunday Night
Another Sunday is soon coming to an end, and a new day will come about. Took my walks today, even though it was hot, it humid at all. On the early evening stroll, I decided to go walking on the boardwalk as it runs parallel with the river. About halfway down the way I ran into a good friend of mine who was sitting on the bench. She is a very good person and love chatting with her, as she is a very understanding person. So I filled her in on what was going on with me and the happenings of the past week. She’s a great listener and that is why and I told her this, is when I am finished talking to her, I feel really good and happy to have a friend like, as I find it hard to talk easily to most of the people that live in the building I reside in. I just wish there were more people like her, as it would make the world a better place to live in.
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A Warm Saturday Evening
Came back from my usual after meal walk, and it is really warm out. When I left which was around 5:30, it was 77 F, and when I finished it was 74. Sunday it is supposed to 90 or close to it. To me that is much to early for this time of year. Temperatures like that high are usually occur in late June and/or early July. Climate change is definitely the culprit. It probably has all the makings of another hot summer, with the more than usual 90 plus temps. When through it last summer and I survived it, so I know what to expect. In the meantime, been stocking up on bottled water, so I won’t get dehydrated, which was not a pleasant thing to go through, as it happened five years ago. hopefully it will never happen again. With all that said, I think positive, and I am survivor.
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Saturday Morning Quote
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.”
~ Alice Munro
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Friday’s Quote
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
~ Martin Heidegger
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Friday Afternoon
Late Friday afternoon the starting point for the working people which I am no longer a part of, the three day weekend. I remembered when I would look forward to the long weekend and how fast they flew by. Now that I am retired the longer weekends don’t really matter much.
On the home front my partner is doing well. I thank you all for the concerns and the comments.
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Today’s Quote
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It Can Be Embarrassing
Walking with one’s head in the clouds, can end being an embarrassing event. I have done it myself but snapped out of it pretty quickly before anything happened. A few years back when I was part of the work-a-day-world, I was returning back to where I work, I was on JFK Street in Central Sq., Cambridge, there was man walking across the street, more than likely with his head in the clouds, walk straight into a telephone pole, face first. He seemed to be alright, and he moseyed on his way. I figured he must have been a teacher or professor at MIT. In Cambridge you do to see some strange and sometimes funny suff going happening. Never a dull moment in that city.
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Wednesday Evening
Never got around to posting yesterday, so I will try and give it a go. Anyways … after I finished posting Monday evening, there was a medical emergency I had to attend to. My partner became ill, and asked her what was wrong, and she thought she was having a silent heart attack. Like a good boy, dialed 911, and told them why I needed an ambulance … then being bombarded with all kinds of questions … with all that said, a few minutes later three firefighters are at the door, and a minute or later the EMTs arrived. They worked on her using an EKG machine, plus took her temperature, along with more questions. Soon they were off to the hospital, and they kept her overnight, and it turns out after all the testing they did, it turns out it was high anxiety … a right eye infection and one other thing which is ok now. She came home late Tuesday night, and she is doing quite well. As for me, doing very good, as I kept thinking positive, and my sugar never did go out of whack.
It’s been raining here quite steadily since around 5:30, and it won’t be over till later in the evening. Time to nuke my coffee, and find something to do.
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Monday Evening
Monday evening and all is well. Nothing much to report on, so … anyway I hope to get back to posting on a daily basis. I know it can be hard to find the time to sit down and get on with it. With that said, I will give it my best to come up with some good ideas to write about. Till then, stay safe and think positive.
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Surreal
As I mentioned in my previous post about a book I am close to finishing up, Inside Story by Martin Amis. It was his last novel which was published in 2020. Anyway, he talks about his best friend Christopher Hichens dying of Oesophageal Cancer, stage four. What was mind numbing was that was the same type of cancer that Amis died from. It took me awhile to wrap my head around the bad news. Nothing else can be said about it.
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Saturday
Saturday evening and and nothing really exciting happened today. Its been raining all afternoon and it is still going on. I did manage to get a couple of walks in, got some book done. Sadly the book that I am currently finishing up is by Martin Amis. He passed away on Friday in Florida at the age of 73. Anyways, tomorrow is another day and see what happens happens.
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Never A Dull Moment
As you all know, if not some of you know that I do a lot of walking. Most days, it will be three sometimes 4 times a day, and average about anywhere from three to sometimes 6 miles in a day. I will admit that there those days that I have to push myself to do it, as I may be a bit tired, or don’t feel all that great, so when I do go, I make it quick and short. The walking helps me in different ways; like it helps clear out my head, it helps keep my glucose readings good, also it keeps the weight in check, and above all, it keeps me away from using insulin, which I’m so happy to be off that fucking stuff.
When out walking there are times I have to deal with the fucking morons, who see me in a crosswalk, and don’t even have the smarts to stop and let you cross. Really!! I will call them a jackass, or some other choice word or words, but in the long run, I end up letting it go, and proceed with my walk.
The other thing I would like to mention, is that I do meet some nice people who also out for a stroll, and then there is the one or three assholes, that I will totally ignore. Then there’s the one strange and or funny stuff, that just seem to make one’s day.
With all this said, one of the first questions my doctor asked when I saw her the other day was, are you still taking your walks, and the answer was yes I do, she was very pleased. She said she didn’t know to many people who got off the insulin and manage to stay off of it, and not to have any problems with my sugar and weight. As I said before, I do what works for me and just keep on doing it. No need to spend time in the ICU again, unless I necessarily have to which is never, ever.
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Today’s Quote
“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.”
~ Kathryn Schulz
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All Is Good
Saw the doctor today
No aches
No pain
All is good
Also had my eyes checked
at the optometrist
No sugar in the eyes
No glaucoma and no cataracts
Don’t need new glasses
Two days in a row of getting
good news
Life is good
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Today’s Quote
“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one’s own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.”
~ Joan Didion
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Reading or Writing
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers … becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”
~ David Foster Wallace
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I’ll Take It
its Saturday afternoon and its sunny, warm and lots of clouds and I am tired from keeping myself busy as in busy as a bee did i just say that oh my what was I thinking well i could be tired from getting up to early or from not enough coffee nah then there’s the lingering head cold which is not as bad as it was a couple of days ago anyway just kicking back and relaxing and writing or should I say typing this drivel of a post i guess its something to say and for you enlightened souls are trying to get through this claptrap of utter whatever one wants to call it
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Today’s Quote
“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle – for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.”
~ Virginia Woolf
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Nabokov and Joyce
“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives ‘beautifully’–not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.”
~ Martin Amis
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Going With The Flow
Its the last day of April, and still dealing with this damn head cold. Its not as bad as it has been. Anyways, I’ve been more or less taking it easy, getting the things that have to be done out of the way. As for books, I can’t seem to get my head around into heavy reading, so I’ve reading a collection of really short true life’s stories. At first, I would read a couple three stories, stop, rest my eyes for a while, then read a couple more. You know; wash-rinse-repeat. Still doing the daily crosswords, along with the strong black coffee. So, all is right with my corner of the world.
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Today’s Quote
“I’ve gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is that you can’t pick or choose in the world what you want to happen and what you don’t want to happen, and that actually if you did get to choose, the version you would come up with would be unsociable, lame, and basically less beautiful than the truth.”
~ Elif Batuman
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Iain Banks Quote
“People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots… in fact I think they have to be… a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.”
~ Iain Banks
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People Quote
“People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they’re feeling and how they’re going down. We’ve been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it’s a fulltime job looking the other way.”
~ Martin Amis
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Today’s Quote
“Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.”
~ Jonathan Franzen
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Nina Simone Quote
“Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
And I’m feeling good
I’m feeling good”~ Nina Simone
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A Thought on Judgment
As a society in totality, we tend to be judgmental on just about any and all subjects we can touch upon. Why I’m bringing this up, I ran into a dear friend of mine, and we sat down and had a chat in Washington Sq., park. She is someone I had met about a dozen years ago, and I love talking to her, as she is very levelheaded, and easy to talk to, and a great listener. We talked on a few different subjects, and we both dislike talking about Trump, as it’s not worth the time hashing over his day in and day out bullshit. I can live without it. Anyways, we both agreed that we are judgmental, and try not to be. But I/we did come to the decision that we are judgmental, and we let it go at that. Myself, I am somewhat guilty of it, yet I do not lose sleep over it. After we said our goodbyes, I felt really good about myself. The reason why I say this, is because I was trying to get rid of a headache that started just before I left to go for my evening walk, I did take two Ibuprofen which helped immensely, and as we were chatting, the headache was finally done with.
Namaste
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Writing Quote
“As every writer knows… there is something mysterious about the writer’s ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is ‘hot’, an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another… Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from ‘inspiration’ or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.”
~ John Gardner
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Let’s See
Today was kind of a busy day. Went to the super market, picked up a few things, like bananas, black raspberries, red raspberries, a red pepper, and a few other things. Got that out of the way, and then had my breakfast, and did an online crossword, finished it of course. After that, did some book reading. My new hiking shoes arrived today, which I bought on Amazon. Now I have two new pairs, so I am good to go right through summer, fall and into next year. I do tend to do a lot of walking, three, sometimes 4 times a day and sometimes at nighttime too. Anyways, the rest of the day and evening was really nothing to get excited about. So for the rest night, I’ll just kick back, relax, hit the sack in a bit, and then comes a brand new day.
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Weather
It was a surreal kind of weather we had the past couple of days. Thursday, the late afternoon temperature registered 86 degrees. That is not the kind of heat to have in the middle of April. I’ll be truthful it knocked me for a loop, and eventually drained the shit out of me. With that said, off came the cover of the A/C, and put it to good use. Thank goodness for A/C, as I grew up in an old tenement building, with no means of cooling off, with the exception of open windows, with screens. I guess as kids we don’t mind the heat as much as we do when we get older. Then again, I’ve been a lover of winter weather, and I still do. Can’t change old habits.
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Big Box Stores
Big box stores just don’t do it for me anymore. They haven’t for quite a while. Its probably been at least eight years, maybe more. There could be a couple of reasons why I don’t bother to go to them, as in another life, I did work in two of them, and for the most part, I detested it. Cheap wages, assholes for bosses and hours that they you to work at the beck and call. With that said, even though I am retired, I would never do it again. Supermarkets and grocery stores are a different story, as when I go into them, I usually know what I need, get it, and I’m in and out in no time. That’s fine with me.
The goods and whatever else I use to purchase in the big box stores, I buy them online. Clothes, shoes, toilet paper, paper towels, paper napkins, and a few other things, I buy them online through Amazon or Wal Mart. Books: Amazon, Blackwells Book Store in Oxford, UK and Book Depository in London, UK. Most of the different brands of coffee, I buy online as I found they can be cheaper than the local supermarket. Ditto with bottled water, as the city water in my city sucks. Almost every day, I will browse the websites and see what bargains I will find, and mostly but them.
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Literature
“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.”
~ Susan Sontag
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Fear
“F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.”
~ Zig Ziglar
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A Good Day
Today was a good day. I was up and out of bed earlier than usual, actually about a half hour before sunrise. The outside temperature was 33 degrees, at around 6:00 am. It got up to 64 degrees, late in the afternoon, which made a nice day. Got the one errand done early, then took a walk. Did some more in the early afternoon, and again this evening. I find taking walks is very beneficial. It helps keep my head clear, keeps the weight in check, and I feel real good about myself. It also helps immensely with my glucose levels, as I don’t use insulin. I have been off the insulin for the past 2 1/2 years. When I was injecting it nightly, just before I went to bed, I would wake up the next morning, feeling week and in a stupor. Some mornings the fasting glucose reading would be in the 50s, 60s and/or 70s. Those are dangerous readings. I finally convinced my diabetic doctor to take me off the stuff, so he slowly weaned me off, and since then I knew I would make it work, and I stuck to it.
By the way, I was browsing Amazon, and ended up buying two more books, trade paper backs, as I don’t really care for hard cover books. Along with that, also bought a bag of Panera coffee, as is was on sale. Now, I think its time, to sit back and relax.
Namaste.
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Today’s Quote
“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.”
~ Agatha Christie
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My Life
I titled this post My Life, as I am trying my hand at penning an essay. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time. I know it’s not an easy thing to do, well, anyways here it goes.
I have been keeping myself busy, meaning running errands, doing chores, as in doing the laundry, tidying up the bathroom, vacuuming, and all that other wonderful and or mundane stuff we do day to day. Also I have been doing a lot of reading, as I have been buying books, like there is no tomorrow. I am currently perusing five books, Swing Time by Zadie Smith, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, which I am close to finishing. The other books are Oxford Book of Short Stories, Oxford Book of Essays and True Tales of American Life edited by one of my favorite writers Paul Auster. I basically start reading after I have done my morning glucose reading, taking my meds, then have a banana, then do whatever I have to do before I settle down with doing some stretching and then doing some spinning using a floor cycling machine. As I am doing this, I get some of my reading in, and wait for the first pot of coffee to finish brewing. So, with the reading I also get my exercise in and it helps keep my sugar in check, which goes with the walks that I take a couple or three sometimes four times a day. I find it helps with the keeping the weight in check, along with the blood pressure, which I take medication for. In summation, my health is really good, and do see the doctor twice a year. and get my eyes checked once a year. Its been all good since I was hospitalized back in May 2018.
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Daydreamer
“The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.”
~ Ian Mcewan
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Editing Your Work
“The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.”
~ Zadie Smith
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Escape
“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art–we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”
~ Anais Nin
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They Know
i know that you know that your aunt knows your uncle knows your cousin knows that your mother grandmother grandfather your next door neighbor knows your sister knows your brother knows your not much loved inlaw knows your boss knows your mail carrier knows your milk man knows grocery store clerk knows your pharmacist knows your coffee shop server knows that they all say you know nothing not a damn thing nada zilch zero sum base
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To Be Alive is Grand
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
~ Agatha Christie
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A Thought
With a mass shooting in a supermarket, which earlier last year.
In late November a lake effect snowstorm which buried the greater
Buffalo area.
Then the blizzard in late December which paralyzed the city and its
environs, and the people who lost their lives.
And last, Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills going into cardiac arrest.With all that said, my heart is with the Buffalo Bills, and rooting for them
to get to the Super Bowl and come away with a win.
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Comfort of Feeling Safe
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
~ George Eliot
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Creativity
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
~ Charles Mingus
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Rules For Happiness
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
~ Immanuel Kant
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So
so today is a new day, a new month and a new year, which means in five weeks from now, I’ll be another year older and hopefully wiser with age. since it is a new year, what way to start it off with is plenty of black coffee … got to have coffee and start a new book, which is: The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher. it’s a historical novel about the bookstore
Shakespear and Company. also did a couple of online crosswords, and updated the latest version of windows 11, which took about an hour or so to do. that’s it for now from the home front in Massachusettsp.s. happy new year everyone
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Make You Smile
“If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.”
~ Franz Kafka
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People Write
“People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I’m not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don’t want to hear about it.”
~ Paul Theroux
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Tremendous Hope and Spirit
“I wasn’t attractive, I wasn’t very verbal, I wasn’t very smart in school. I wasn’t anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going… I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical… I just knew it.”
~ Patti Smith – Born: December 30, 1946
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The Mainstream Media
“I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, “How does it feel being on mainstream media? It’s not often poets get on mainstream media.” I said, “Well I think you’re the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you’re not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture.””
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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California October Nights
“The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.”
~ Jack Kerouac
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Cats or People
“I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute, they very rapidly outgrow it.”
~ William S. Burroughs
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Documents Of The Mist
“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can’t communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books – Too late, too late, the history of everything we’ve seen together and separately has become a library in itself – The shelves pile higher – They’re full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-.”
~ Jack Kerouac
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Tell The Truth
“The writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth… and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.”
~ Susan Sontag
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If you worship money and things …
“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.”
~ David Foster Wallace
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To Live An Interesting Life.
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule, if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.”
~ Lydia Davis
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Discover New Examples
“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don’t know half as much as I think I do.”
~ Paul Auster
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Journey
Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.~ Brandon Sanderson
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What A Difference A Day Makes
Friday, it was windy, raining and temps in the mid 50s.
This morning, it was nine degrees.
We did have snow, but nothing to write home to
mom about.
Oh well. It is winter.
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An Appropriate Description to What it Was Like Here Shortly After Sunrise
“The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind in never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.”~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Growing
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.”
~ Anais Nin
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Winter by Lauryn Hill
“Everything is everything
What is meant to be, will be
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually”~ Lauryn Hill
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Knowing
“For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”
~ Samuel Beckett
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Practice Kindness
“The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
Rocks dont see it.
Bless and sit down.
Forgive and forget.
Practice kindness all day to everybody
and you will realize you’re already
in heaven now.
That’s the story.
That’s the message.
Nobody understands it,
nobody listens, they’re
all running around like chickens with heads cut
off. I will try to teach it but it will
be in vain, s’why I’ll
end up in a shack
praying and being
cool and singing
by my woodstove
making pancakes.”~ Jack Kerouac
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Your Sensations
“Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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Realizations
“It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave–and the liar said it really happened–was that once while drinking orange juice, he’d realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar ‘realizations.’ Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn’t enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.”
~Amy Hempel
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Writing
“It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, “Read,” but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or “Don’t read, don’t think, just write,” and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you’re going to be a writer, you’ll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, “There must be something else people do,” you won’t be able to quit.”
~ Alice Munro
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Poem by Emily Bronte
“I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.”~ Emily Bronte
A Pondering Mind 
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