50 days till January 20, 2021
Author: A Pondering Mind
Counting Down The Days
51 days till January 20, 2021
“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.” ~Louisa May Alcott
“I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.” ~George Harrison
Counting Down The Days
52 days till January 20, 2021
Counting Down The Days
53 days till January 20, 2021
Counting Down The Days
54 days till January 20, 2021
Counting Down The Days
55 days till January 20, 2021
Counting Down The Days
56 days till January 20, 2021
Change Is Coming
Change is coming. Finally, at 12:00 pm, January 20, 2020 the the four year shit show in Washington, will be coming to an end. Normalcy, sanity and reconnecting the country back to dealing with other nations, with some great people in Biden’s cabinet.
Let’s hope we never have to go through again, with the clowns that was occupying the White House.
Nothing In Nature
“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.”
~ Baruch Spinoza
“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.” ~ Vernon Howard
For What Its Worth
Love things in common. Hopefully, we can live in harmony.
Climate Change
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
~William Hague
Sports and politics don’t mix. ~Eric Heiden
Endangered Species
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
~Jay Inslee
“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley
Who You Are
“To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear.”
~ Marc Jacobs
Is It
Is is January 20, 2021 yet?
Human Conception
“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.”
~ Sri Aurobindo
Human Rights
“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.”
~ Julian Bond
The Rule of Fools
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”
~ Plato
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ~Ann Landers
Equal Right
“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
~ John Locke
Be Who You Are
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
~ Rita Mae Brown
Coffee and love are best when they are hot. ~German Proverb
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. ~Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom Is Everywhere
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
~ Josh Billings
Wisdom And Learning
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~ Sandra Carey
Learn By Doing
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
~ Richard Branson
Sublime Natural Beauty
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
~ Eleanor Catton
Voting Done
Two weeks ago, I voted by mail in, but dropped it off at the ballot box in the lobby of the local police station, as I didn’t trust the postal service with the shenanigans they was doing. I did check online to see if it was received at the city clerk’s office, and it was. I did my part to hopefully rid the orange menace on November 3.
“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” ~ Winston Churchill
Vain And Inspiring Men
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
~ Samuel Adams
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~ Rose Kennedy
What Is
“The ‘what should be’ never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no ‘what should be,’ there is only what is.”
~ Lenny Bruce
2020
Has your life changed or turned upside down, inside out, don’t know which end is up, due to all the different things that have happened in the year 2020?
Food And Eating
When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
~ Ayurvedic Proverb
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~Salvador Dali
For What Its Worth
Glucose levels are very good, and have been that way for quite some time. Also, its been a year since I had to be on insulin. I am happy for the way things have worked out.
Life is good.
For What Its Worth
2020 the year from hell
Voting
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
~Charles Bukowski
Reading Is The Key
“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain
“The majority of men…
“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
You Were Meant To Be
“Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”
~ H. G. Wells
Elections Belong To The People
“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. ~Fran Lebowitz
Octopus On Roller Skates
Talent without discipline, is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If You’re Not Careful …
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
~ Malcolm X
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. ~Bruce Springsteen
“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie
“The path to paradise begins in hell.” ~ Dante Alighieri
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Herd Mentality
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
~ David Icke
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” ~ Harper Lee
For What Its worth
Its Labor Day 2020
and the moron
president is still
in office
In two more months
we can send him
packing
Another For What Its Worth
Polls
Pools
Polls
With all the
different polls
that inundate
us with the
latest who
is ahead
who is behind
blah blah blah
The only poll
that counts and
really matters
is at the polling
booth on November 3rd
For What Its worth
Hopefully come
November 3rd
we rid of
‘the sky is falling’
president
Really
A president who
praises police …
and also a vigilante
killer in Kenosha
So, you either
praise one or
the other, not
both
Now to watch
out for men dressed
in all black, flying
in a plane over
my building
For What Its Worth
The sky is falling
president, should
be removed from
office immediately.
Everyday it seems
that he gets more
outrageous with the
bullshit he spouts
off.
Again. He must be
removed ASAP!
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. ~Potter Stewart
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. ~ Edward Hennessy
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
He is happiest, be it king or peasant, who finds peace in is home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Only ignorance excuses stupidity. ~ Nalini Singh
3 3 3. Only half evil. ~ Cheyenne McCray
Self-Control
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
~ Franz Kafka
Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. ~Anonymous
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” ~ Che Guevara
Excellent Pick
Kamala Harris is an excellent pick. Joe Biden made the right choice, and won’t take any shit from Trump and his minions.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ~ James A. Baldwin
For What Its Worth
2020: the year of not knowing which end is up.
For What Its Worth
2020: the year the world got turned on its head
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuitive And Rational Mind
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein
“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell
Don’t you hate people who say they’re not complaining and then complain? ~Edna Ferber
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ~Bertrand Russell
Remembering A Civil Rights Icon – John Lewis, May you Rest In Peace
“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”
~ John Lewis
Population Growth
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world it for us right now.
~ David Attenborough
I love being an introvert…
“I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
For What Its Worth
Is it just me, wondering if this country has lost its collective soul, and if so, can the damage be repaired?
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ~John F. Kennedy
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men – those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy. ~Jose Marti
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
Instant coffee: is just old beans that have been cremated. ~ Jennifer Saunders
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ~Jean Kerr
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ~Anton Chekhov
The sands of time are quicksands … so much can sink into them without a trace. ~Margaret Atwood
Men Marry Women …..
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
~ Albert Einstein
The Void
The entire cast of know-it-all, know nothing so-called leaders of the free world, are all aboard an all expenses gladfully paid for, at the taxpayers expense, a non-returnable flight, on the spaceship emptiness. It is heading straight on into the void, and will never be heard from again.
