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I Love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting than yours will ever be. -Elizabeth Scott

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. ~ David Mamet

“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

You can never plan the future by the past. ~ Edmund Burke

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~ James Thurber

James Thurber, American Author ~ 1894 – 1961

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”

Freedom ~ Abraham Lincoln

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“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

Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death. ~ Edna Ferber

“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

“How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?” ~ Miguel de Cervantes

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ~ Margaret Fuller

“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

This Is Your Life!

“I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna beContinue reading “This Is Your Life!”

“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

“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” ~ Agatha Christie

Thinking ~ Agatha Christie

“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie, B: September 15, 1890 – D. January 12, 1976

The Health Of The Eye

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. ~ John Locke

John Locke, English Philosopher ~ 1632 – 1704

Voting ~ David Foster Wallace

“In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.” ~ David Foster Wallace, Novelist ~ B: February 21, 1962 – D: September 12, 2008 “Up, Simba!”. Essay by David Foster Wallace, September 2000.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“Society exists only as a concept in the real world there are only individuals.” ~Oscar Wilde

Brain Cramp

have no idea what to write

Controlled Citizens.” ~ Thomas Szasz

“The FDA calls certain substances “controlled.” But there are no “controlled substances,” there are only controlled citizens.” ~ Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist

What Life’s All About

“At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.” ~ Janis Ian, Singer-songwriter

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 man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~ William Blake

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~ Genevan philosopher ~ 1712 – 1778

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

In reality, every reader is, while reading,the reader of his own self. ~ Marcel Proust

Learning To Relax

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ~ William S. Burroughs

Tears are the body’s raindrops of emotion. ~ Robert M. Hensel

Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~ William James

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

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

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. ~ E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster – English Novelist 1879 – 1970

“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” ~ Robertson Davies

“A Voice from the Attic”. Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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

“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.” ~ Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (1999). “Marx in Soho: A Play on History”, p.4, South End Press

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

Insecurity is a waste of time. ~ Diane von Furstenberg

Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion designer ~ 1946 –

What We Know

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. ~ Claude Bernard, Physiologist ~ 1813 – 1878

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

Know What A Place Means

“Having a place means that you know what a place means…what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense…Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness” ~ Gary Snyder, Poet ~ Born: May 8, 1930

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.” ~ Jack Kerouac

“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.” ~ Jack Kerouac*

*”Lonesome Traveler”

“Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.” ~ Bette Davis

Youth has a no age. ~ Pablo Picasso*

*Spanish painter 1881-1973

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

“Remember, you have no companions but your shadow” ~ Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan, B: May 31, 1162 – D: August 18, 1227 Khagan of the Mongol Empire

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”

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