Currently reading Atonement by Ian McEwan, and Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney.
Also reading The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, and The Granta Book of Irish Short Story.
All are excellent reads.
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Daydreamer
“The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.”
~ Ian Mcewan
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Invincible Love
“My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus”
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Big Cities Change
“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, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.”
~ Patti Smith
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Lucked Out
at 9:45 this morning
it is 41 degrees
and a steady rain
about 20 miles away
is the sleet/snow
line
it will stay in
the low 40s
come Saturday
morning it may
change to a bit
of snow
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Reading a Poem
kick back
and relax
grab a book
any book
whatever tickles
your fancy
a good way
to pass the
time away
oh, the joy
of reading
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The More You Read
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” ~ Stephen King
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Two Sentence Story
Book, coffee, sitting in her favorite chair.
All the comforts in the world she could want.
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Successful Novel
“A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.”
~ Stephen King
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Fear & Love
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
~John Lennon*
*Died: December 8, 1980
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Reality
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.”
~ Jim Morrison*
*Born: December 8, 1943
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Nature
“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can”.”
~ John Muir
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November
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November!”
~ Thomas Hood
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Friday 10/14
Stormy morning
Lots of rain
A good day to
sit and read a
good book or two
Also indulge in
black coffeeThe I am presently
reading is: And Then
There Were None by
Agatha Christie.Another book that I am
also reading is: The
Collected Stories by
Amy Hempel.
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Diabetes
I’m a Type 2 Diabetic, and have been for the last four years, and I will not let it get the better of me.
Photo by Alesia Kozik: https://www.pexels.com/photo/letter-tiles-on-the-purple-background-6836296/
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Hanging Message Board
Photo by Lorraine Steriopol: https://www.pexels.com/photo/hanging-message-board-9123139/
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Poster Quote
Photo by Lauris Rozentāls: https://www.pexels.com/photo/planet-earth-first-poster-on-a-concrete-post-3302183/
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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 do winners become winners?”
~ Elif Batuman
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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
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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, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.”
~ Patti Smith
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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
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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
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A True Winter Day
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash
At 7:00 a.m. it was 1 degree below zero, with a wind chill of 18 below.
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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
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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
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Man And Nature
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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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 …
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Change
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~ Alan Watts
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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
A Pondering Mind 
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