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Author Archives: A Pondering Mind
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller
To see the Summer Sky ~ Emily Dickinson
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee – ~Emily Dickinson, c.1879
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~ Okakura Kakuzo
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ~ Erich Fromm
Be as you wish to seem. ~ Socrates
“And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?” ~ Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett, B: January 6, 1946 – D: July 7, 2006
Six Words
Delicious hollandaise sauce on meatloaf extraordinaire
Read Everything ~ William Faulkner
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ~ William Faulkner, Born: […]
Nothing Is Absolute ~ Frida Kahlo
Born: July 6, 1907 – Died: July 13, 1954
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg
G. C. Lichtenberg, German writer and physicist 1742-1799
Benign Indifference To The Universe ~ Albert Camus
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference to the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. ~ Albert Camus
In an infinite Universe anything can happen. ~ Douglas Adams
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. ~ Dorothea Brande
If you rest, you rust. ~Helen Hayes
Just Thinking
stale bread makes lousy sandwiches
My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. ~ Anne Tyler
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky
Books are the carriers of civilization …
Books are the carriers of civilization … They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
Six Word Story
Traveling the infinite highway to freedom.
The City
people on the stoops watching the passersby hydrants open spraying cool water on the neighborhood kids ice cream truck has arrived people lining up to buy and enjoy an ice cream or something cold to drink to hot cook inside so pizza and sandwiches are the meals for the hungry the ones without a/c suffer […]
Just Thinking
If Jack Kerouac were alive what would be his thoughts of the state of affairs this country It would surely be an interesting read
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. ~ Susan Sontag
Saturday Afternoon
eating a pear accompanied with a cup of black French Roast coffee while reading emails and blogs
A Thought
glitz and glimmer, not my forte
One Liner
All ye caffeine junkies, drink up, and get wired.
Six Word Story
Chasing the American dream. Its elusive.
Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone. ~ Thomas Ligotti
Black Coffee
A Nostalgic Moment
Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) and Buzz Murdoch (George Maharis) on Route 66 an old black and white television show with great screenwriting and acting
Four Words
living, loving, enjoying life.
Six Word Story
Conversing with unicorns and glow worms.
A Pondering Moment
Monday evening still breathing thinking eating reading and whatever else alive and well human beings do
“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” ~ George Carlin
“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” ~ George Carlin
“Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” ~ George Carlin
Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….
“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve […]
On Some Summer Days In New York City
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn’t one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city. ~ Diane Ackerman
In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher – Born: June 21, 1905 – Died: April 15, 1980
My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. ~ Harold E. Varmus
Isabella Schomo Quote
Spring procreates, Summer develops, Autumn debilitates & Winter ceases to be. Meeting all forms of life. ~ Isabella Schomo
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~ Jeannette Walls
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~ Sam Levenson
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ~ Susan Sontag
Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago
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Journey Through Life ~ William Golding
“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the […]
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ~ Henrik Ibsen
Cup of Coffee ~ Anthony Trollope
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Coffee And Conversation
Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know, mobile phone tumours – far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation. ~ Dylan Moran
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ~ Steve Jobs
Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~ Albert Einstein
Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~ Sam Cawthorn
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~ Robert McKee
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ~ Jack Kerouac
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A Pondering Moment
the eyes see all the eyes tell all
Emily Dickinson Quote
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ~ Emily Dickinson
Summer Quote
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You can never plan the future by the past. ~ Edmund Burke
Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries. ~ Meg Cabot
Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. ~ Steve Martin
We made too many wrong mistakes. ~ Yogi Berra
Greed ~ Erich Fromm
Psychologist, 1900 – 1980
A Pondering Moment
tired as tired, can be
Quiet People ~ Susan Gale
Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say. They’re just being careful about who they open up to. ~ Susan Gale
Destiny’s Champion, Fate’s Fool. Eternity’s Soldier, Time’s Tool. ~ Michael Moorcock
The Best Things In Life Are Free.
The best things in life are free. Sunsets and sunrises are free. Air is free. Love is free. Death is free. The best things in life are free. ~ Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. ~ Chris Klein
Street Art ~ Lies
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I’ll read my books ….
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. […]
Coffee Quote
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On a summer night ….
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~ Bernard Williams
Coffee
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer / 1749 – 1832
Virtual Reality
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Mind is consciousness
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. ~ Ramana Maharshi
Benign Indifference Of The Universe ~ Albert Camus
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. ~ Albert Camus
What was once thought can never be unthought. ~ Friedrich Dilrrenmatt
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. ~ Victor Frankl
Art
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In A Conumdrum
mug of coffee to my left open laptop in front of me a new book that was started this morning sits to the right of me now what the hell shall I do flip a coin rock paper scissors put a blindfold on and pick one spin the bottle good luck
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King
A Precious Privilege
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours in watching television. ~ David Letterman
“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, Writer – Born: July 3, 1883 – Died: June 3, 1924
“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg, Poet – Born: June 3, 1926 – Died: April 5, 1997
Look For Beauty ~ Richard Paul Evans
‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~ John Burroughs
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. ~ John Steinbeck
June Cleaver didn’t keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it. ~ Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley , played June Cleaver in “Leave it to Beaver”
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Summer ~ Hal Borland Quote
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~ Hal Borland
What is one to say about June …. ~ Gertrude Jekyll
Short Story
During his morning stroll, the elderly man is curious, as to how many bricks did they use in making the one block long sidewalk. Maybe one day, he will find the answer, by the tedious task of counting the red rectangular blocks of clay.
