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“It is necessary … for a man to go away by himself … to sit on a rock … and ask, ‘Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?” ~ Carl Sandburg, Writer, 1878-1967

Music ~ Albert Einstein

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ~ Albert Einstein

#1 priority is water, water, and more water. ~ Joe Teti

With the high heat and humidity, having/drinking plenty of water, is a good thing.

Short Short Story

Trekking with the numerous lost souls. The journey continues on.

“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.” ~ Paul Valery

Paul Valery, Bizarre, issues 24-31, (p. 102), 1962

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” ~ Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt (1999), Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir

Money is the poor people’s credit card. ~ Marshall McLuhan

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” ~ William James

“We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.” ~ Walter Cronkite

Spiritual Expression ~ John Coltrane

Born: September 23, 1926 – Died: July 17, 1967

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud

Anna Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Power and speed be hands and feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” ~ May Sarton

May Sarton, Poet, B: May 3, 1912 – D: July 16, 1995

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. ~ George Santayana

Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wireless ~ Nikola Tesla

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts. ~ Nikola Tesla, Inventor, 1856 – 1943

A child without education, is like a bird without wings. ~ Tibetan Proverb

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell

Me

I am me always will be me no one will ever change me as I was born as me so the end result is a total me and I am happy to be me

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ~ Elizabeth Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny, Born: September 20, 1880 – Died: November 30, 1952

A Pondering Moment

sit back relax with a book and try to put the heat and the high humidity behind you

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

“He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.” ~ Pablo Neruda, Senator of Chile Born: July 12, 1904 – Died: September 23, 1973

Easy Reading ~ Maya Angelou

Incomes ~ John Locke

“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.” ~ John Locke, Philosopher ~ 1632-1704

Four Words

basking in the sunshine

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller

To see the Summer Sky ~ Emily Dickinson

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee – ~Emily Dickinson, c.1879

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~ Okakura Kakuzo

Be as you wish to seem. ~ Socrates

Six Words

Delicious hollandaise sauce on meatloaf extraordinaire

Read Everything ~ William Faulkner

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ~ William Faulkner, Born: […]

Nothing Is Absolute ~ Frida Kahlo

Born: July 6, 1907 – Died: July 13, 1954

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg

G. C. Lichtenberg, German writer and physicist 1742-1799

Benign Indifference To The Universe ~ Albert Camus

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference to the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. ~ Albert Camus

In an infinite Universe anything can happen. ~ Douglas Adams

If you rest, you rust. ~Helen Hayes

Just Thinking

stale bread makes lousy sandwiches

My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. ~ Anne Tyler

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Books are the carriers of civilization …

Books are the carriers of civilization … They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)

Six Word Story

Traveling the infinite highway to freedom.

The City

people on the stoops watching the passersby hydrants open spraying cool water on the neighborhood kids ice cream truck has arrived people lining up to buy and enjoy an ice cream or something cold to drink to hot cook inside so pizza and sandwiches are the meals for the hungry the ones without a/c suffer […]

Just Thinking

If Jack Kerouac were alive what would be his thoughts of the state of affairs this country It would surely be an interesting read

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. ~ Susan Sontag

Saturday Afternoon

eating a pear accompanied with a cup of black French Roast coffee while reading emails and blogs

A Thought

glitz and glimmer, not my forte

One Liner

All ye caffeine junkies, drink up, and get wired.

Six Word Story

Chasing the American dream. Its elusive.

A Nostalgic Moment

Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) and Buzz Murdoch (George Maharis) on Route 66 an old black and white television show with great screenwriting and acting

Four Words

living, loving, enjoying life.

Six Word Story

Conversing with unicorns and glow worms.

A Pondering Moment

Monday evening still breathing thinking eating reading and whatever else alive and well human beings do

“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” ~ George Carlin

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” ~ George Carlin

“Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” ~ George Carlin

Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….

“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve […]

On Some Summer Days In New York City

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn’t one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city. ~ Diane Ackerman

In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams

“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher – Born: June 21, 1905 – Died: April 15, 1980

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. ~ Harold E. Varmus

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~ Sam Levenson

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ~ Susan Sontag

Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago

Quote Master

Journey Through Life ~ William Golding

“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the […]

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