A Pondering Mind

Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer

Clear Labeling For Genetically Modified Food

Europe believes that providing clear labeling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by vast majority of states in the U.S. -Zac Goldsmith

Rose Bushes

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist

Enjoy Life

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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker

Beautiful People

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do notContinue reading “Beautiful People”

Great News

Saw the diabetes doc (on Tuesday), and the great news is that my A1c is 6.2 which is good. No need for insulin which I have stopped using since the end of September. I only need to see him one more time, that being at the beginning of June. He told me I was doingContinue reading “Great News”

The morning cup of coffee …..

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 –

Water And Life

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Life is …..

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary. ~Albert Einstein

Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan

Life

life it is what it is: life

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one was has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain

“More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting” ~Martin Scorsese

If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat! ~Demitri Martin

Demitri Martin, American Comedian

If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” ~Jim Morrison

“Readers recommend: songs about control” by Peter Kimpton, http://www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

Thinking Silently

thinking silently a smattering of thoughts are swirling in my mind nothing bad nothing harmful nothing slanderous just normal thinking that I usually do throughout the course of the day

Outlook

what keeps me going one step at a time one day at a time think positive watch what i eat drink plenty of water

Movies are not novels ….

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done. ~Paul Auster

“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.” ~Russell Means

Russell Means, B. November 10, 1939 – D. October 22, 2012

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. ~Al Pacino

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” ~Sheryl Sandberg

Thinking

brainstorming + bottomless mugs of strong black coffee >>> produces wild and wacky ideas

Just Thinking

nobody ever said that writing comes easy

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles

Book Reading

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Bookstores

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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon

Coffee – Books

Photo credit: unknown I could do this all day, and night too.

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin

John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

In art as in love, instinct is enough. ~ Anatole France

Anatole France – French Novelist

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~ Muhammad Ali

Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Not Exactly – A Short Story

the middle-age couple, go at it, day and night. always arguing. talking very loud, loud enough to be heard at least a block away. the police have made numerous visits, and have warned them many a time, to cool their jets, or else they will get their asses hauled off to the precinct house. mostContinue reading “Not Exactly – A Short Story”

“everyone tells you what’s good for you. they don’t want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.” ~ Dan Millman

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn’t expect you to – today would be a good. ~ John Avery

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

Just A Thought

big is bulky small is beautiful it’s all good

Update

Now that I am no longer injecting insulin, the glucose (sugar) level(s) are good. It took a little work get to this point, as I watch what and how much I eat, and that’s a good thing, as it works out in my favor. When I was diagnosed and told that I have type 2Continue reading “Update”

Be

Accept who you are Be who you are Think for yourself Enjoy life

Liberty ~ Benjamin Franklin

Time Away

I’m taking some much needed time away from blogging. I need to concentrate on my diabetes, as I am no longer on insulin. I feel great, but there are the moments when the sugar level is a bit high. I don’t fret over it, as I know what to do. When will I return, IContinue reading “Time Away”

“Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.” ~ W. H. Auden

“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?” ~ Edgar Degas

Three Things

bloggers blogging poets posting writers writing

Learning never exhausts the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. ~ Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm, English Essayist ~ 1872 – 1956

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~ Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Thoughts From A Tired Mind

hot searing sun broiling the desert not a house or any building to be seen for as far as the eye can see carcasses of long ago dead animals litter the ground rattle snakes hissing scorpions and black widows crawling seeking to bite and deposit their deadly venom no water to be found not anContinue reading “Thoughts From A Tired Mind”

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil

“You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.” ~ Mooji

Mooji, Teacher ~ Born: January 29, 1954

Traveling Is Like Flirting

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. ~ Gertrude Stein

So…

tired spent done in worn out lethargic listless and whatever else

All the world Began With A Yes

“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.Continue reading “All the world Began With A Yes”

The Joy Of Reading Fiction

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or hers imagination. ~ Alice Hoffman

“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke

John Locke – Philosopher B: August 29, 1632 – D: October 28, 1704

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. ~Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler – English Author, 1835 – 1902

As soon as there is life there is danger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

And

the month of August is now in the home stretch and life goes on

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil*

*French philosopher, 1909-1943

All Things

“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.” ~ Black Elk, Medicine Man ~ B: Dec. 1, 1863 – D: Aug. 19, 1950

A Pondering Moment

we live our lives like laundry wash-rinse-dry-repeat

Cup Of Coffee

“Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, Al Pacino…Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup.” ~ Denis Leary

Wondering Evermore

out the door with the backpack containing only with the basics of necessities in order to find seek/ search/ and/or locate the meaning of truth that is does it truly exist or is it a figment of our collective imagination if so then can we say that the human race is living in a worldContinue reading “Wondering Evermore”