Author Archives: A Pondering Mind
Four Years
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.
Counting Down The Days
Zip, zero, nada, nil, the big O days left. Done, finished, the end.
“Don’t force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.” ~ Plato
Six Word Story
Change is good, replied the cashier.
For What Its Worth
Four years of whatever you want to call it, soon will be just a distant memory. History will not treat it kindly.
Counting Down The Days
One day and/or 24 hours to go. Then it will be the day we’ve been anticipating for, January 20, 2021.
Six Words
1/20/2021. The end is in sight.
Counting Down The Days
2 yup 2 days left till January 20
Six Word Story
Did you hear? No I didn’t.
Reality Is
“Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
For What Its Worth
Yesterday was the old norm.
Today, the new one.
Tomorrow?
Six Word Story
Slip, sliding, spinning on the ice.
Counting Down The Days
3 days till January 20
Hating People
“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Six Word Saturday
Pouring rain. Walking outdoors on standby.
Counting Down The Days
4 days till January 20
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ~Rudyard Kipling
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5 days left till January 20. Getting close.
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6 days till January 20
The Opposite Of Love
“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
Counting Down The Days
7 days till January 20
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
Covid-19 Vaccine
Shortly afternoon time, I got my first Covid-19 vaccine shot. The second will be three weeks from now, February 2.
Counting Down The Days
8 days till January 20, and hopefully, the ugliness ends in Washington.
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9 days till January 20.
“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?” ~James Madison
Six Words Redux Again
New day. New challenges, or not.
Six Words Redux
Beautiful day to kick back. Yep!
Six Words
New year. New month. New day.
Counting Down The Days
10 days till January 20. The end is in sight.
Six Word Saturday
Brand new day. Same old shit.
Counting Down The Days
11 days left for the clown show to exit on January 20
“Leadership Is A Privilege
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
~ Mwai Kibaki
Counting Down The Days
12 days till January 20
Counting Dowm The Days
13 days till January 20
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14 days till January 20
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15 days till January 20
Merely Observing
“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
Counting Down The Days
16 days till the orange man exits the White House on January 20.
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~Winston Churchill
Destination
“The journey, Not the destination matters.”
~ T. S. Eliot
Six Word Story
Sunday frame of mind. All good.
Counting Down The Days
17 days till January 20
A Mother’s Love
“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
“Books are a habit-forming drug.” ~ Agatha Christie
Six Word Saturday
2020 finished. Time to move on.
“If you chase two rabbits,you catch none.” ~ Confucius
Are We Human
“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
Counting Down The Days
18 days till January 20
To Be A Philosopher
“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
“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else.” ~Bertrand Russell
“Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.” ~ John Barrymore
Happy New Year
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” ~ J. D. Salinger
Implementing Ideas
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
~ Shirley Chisholm
Counting Down The Days
19 days till January 20. Hopefully, things get better.
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
Counting Down The Days
20 days left until January 20, 2021
“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” ~ Patti Smith
The Wonder Remains
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Counting Down The Days
21 days till January 20, 2021
“There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.” ~Alfred North Whitehead
To think is to differ. ~Clarence Darrow
For What Its Worth
Only two days left of 2020, then we can put this upside down year, in the rear view mirror.
Counting Down The Days
22 days until orange man is done on January 20, 2021
Living In The Past
“Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.”
~ Harold MacMillan
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” ~ Baz Luhrmann*
*Film director
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23 days till January 20, 2021
“A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.” ~Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov, Bulgarian Philosopher – July 11, 1864 – December 27, 1944
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24 days left till January 20, 2021
Six Word Saturday
Yesterday’s rain washed the snow away.
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25 days till January 20, 2021
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26 days till January 20, 2021
The World We See
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
~ William James
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27 days till January 20, 2021
Time Heals
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
~ Rose Kennedy
Counting Down The Days
28 days till January 20, 2021
Bad Poetry
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Counting Down The Days
29 days till he is gone on January 20, 2021
The Greatest Adventure
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.”
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
Counting Down The Days
30 days till January 20, 2021
We Need To Write
“We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what’s hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.”
~Sandra Cisneros
Counting Down The Days
31 days till January 20, 2021
Six Word Saturday
Walking on crunchy snow. Beautiful feeling.
Natural Healing Force
“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.”
~ Hippocrates
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32 days till normalcy returns on January 20, 2021
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33 days till January 20, 2021
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34 days till January 20, 2021
“Why should things be easy to understand?” ~ Thomas Pynchon
Counting Down The Days
35 days till Biden/Harris take over on January 20, 2021
Novels Are Fictions
“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.”
~ Paul Auster
Read What You Want To Read
“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”
~ Joyce Carol Oates
“The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.” ~Gene Simmons
Counting Down The Days
36 days till January 20, 2021
“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.” ~Dante Alighieri
Counting Down The Days
37 days till you know who is out the door on January 20, 2021.
