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The Soul
Thinking
forget about tomorrow … its not even here as for yesterday … its history its all about today and today only
“Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.” ~Alice Munro
“If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.” ~Lydia Davis
Reading A Novel
“When you’re reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How doContinue reading “Reading A Novel”
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.” ~Sylvia Plath
Walking Meditation
“Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.” ~ Gary Snyder
“To be reborn, you have to die first.” ~ Lucien Carr
Big Cities
“The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashionContinue reading “Big Cities”
“we’re all golden sunflowers inside.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” ~David Foster Wallace
Responsible Decisions
“The place of stillness that you have to go to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.” ~ Jonathan Franzen
Writing/Meaning/Thinking
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” ~ Joan Didion
Be Grateful
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.” `~Siri Hustvedt
Writing One Sentence Stories
“I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating ‘Swann’s Way.’ There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn’t want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust’s very long sentences.” ~ Lydia Davis
“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” ~Patti Smith
question
buying time… yet you can’t purchase it… if one could buy it… i could only imagine what the cost would be
First Things First
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Planting Trees
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It Can Happen
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Just Saying
another day moseying on by
Neighbor – a sort of short story
neighbor says ‘my dog has fleas and mange’ what should i do … any ideas… yes get the mutt a job with the circus… what can i say … but tell it like it is …
so …
its 9: 29 pm i’m watching tv drinking water and posting on the blog whatever thoughts notions pearls of wisdom … eh
huh
man on tv saying blah blah blah co-anchor saying yada yada yada alleged weather person spouting off … making no sense … nada … return in an hour for more of the same … replaying on a endless loop … and they get paid big bucks huh ———- just a bit of satire … iContinue reading “huh”
Six Word Story
good book along with good coffee
Sidewalk Art – Miami
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Think
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I …..
haven’t left the blogosphere…. and it hasn’t left me
Coffee Quote
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Yup!
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so ….
I’ve been on a book binge buying kick … books mostly written by Jack Kerouac, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassidy, and William S. Burroughs … all beat generation writers … and still waiting for four more books by Kerouac, from Blackwell’s in Oxford, United Kingdom is one of my favorite stores to buy books, theContinue reading “so ….”
Flash Fiction
Ideas come to mind Poof! Gone. Dead as a door nail. Flat like a deflated tire. Going nowhere. Back to the drawing board…. don’t have one… pens are dried up out of pencils … so ah …. the hell with it
One Person
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Take It Easy
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Panic …. Not Planning On It
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Time
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Book Collecting
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, a fate. Joris’ fragments
hmmmmmmmmmm
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Don’t ….
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Free Will
You can choose whatever you desire, but you’re not free to choose your desires. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
So …..
the beat writer Jack Kerouac’s real name is Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac just wanted to throw this tid bit of information out there
Day 2
golly gee willikers day 2 of howling winds need to hold onto your hat or whatever light stuff you are toting la de dah tumble weeds tumbling
and ….
its a shitty weather day so its a good day to do the a load of laundry ho hum dumpty dump yada yada yada
a really good question
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom – May 1, 2009 – May 10, 2019 Born in Glasgow, Scotland
its ……
friday afternoon sitting on the couch …. in a relaxed state of mind … and watching the world go by
sooooo …..
i am here so …. where else would i be if i was not here … but i am here … but in all probability i may or knowingly be someplace else … right at this moment i am here
Hello
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One of my all time favorite sayings
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Kitten In Hoodie
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Checking In
alive and kicking feeling great another year older yada yada yada
A Quick Reversal
Around 5:30 this morning it 58 degrees and windy. About three hours later, the wind shifted direction, lo and behold the air suddenly got chilly, and had to close the window. Later on I went for a walk and the wind was really doing its thing, and walking into the teeth of it, that feltContinue reading “A Quick Reversal”
Beauty
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One Word
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Six Words
living one day at a time
Currently Reading
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, is a Scottish novelist. It was written 29 years ago, and is about a raw depiction of Edinburgh life. It is different as far as getting through the way the Scots talk.
Question
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Snow
Lots and lots of snow How much snow have no idea Lots and lots of wind All I know it was windy really windy Anyway Its winter Its January It comes with the territory
Waiting
Waiting for the big storm to hit. Suppose to start around midnight or there abouts. Expecting anywhere from a foot and half to 2 feet. Calling it a blizzard with white out conditions and a lot of wind to boot. Oh well … its winter and I can live with it … so there’s noContinue reading “Waiting”
Currently Reading
Destiny, a book by Tim Parks. Its a good read, but the one thing that I don’t care for, is a lot of the paragraphs are anywhere from 2 to 3 pages long, and that can slow down time of getting through the book.
She definitely needs more coffee
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Repeat
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So True
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A True Winter Day
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Reading….
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what read ours. -John Locke
This And That
Suppose we wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all? -Jack Kerouac
The Moon
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Life
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
its ….
thursday morning had my coffee with more to imbibe…now i sit and drumming my fingers on the table am i thinking or bored or a combination of both
Health will improve almost at once when worrying ends. ~Neale Donald Walsch
Money Is Numbers
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. Bob Marley
Man And Nature
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. ~Anais Nin
Three Words
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Question
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Story is a metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee
Four Words
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hmmmm
the 1st Monday of the year 2022 with 51 more of them to come
good karma
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Same old, same old
same shit different day same shit different month same shit different year and it goes on and on and …
January
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. ~Jean-Paul Sartre
Having A Frustrating Day, Then The Advice On The Wall Is A Good Idea
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Winter Wonderland
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Silhouette Of Man On Cliff
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…the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS… ~Emily Dickinson
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“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” ~John Green
Today
Yesterday I got the booster shot. Today, having blood work done, and A1c level checked. With that said, I feel great.
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.” ~Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett, Philosopher
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” ~Christopher Hitchens
Change
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ~ Alan Watts
Don’t Worry
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Four Words
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation. ~Sinclair Lewis
Nothing In The World Is Permanent
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.” ~John Locke
Purple and White Petaled Flower
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More ….
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Hopefully ….
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A Pondering Mind 
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