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Order & Chaos

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. -Kerry Thomley

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people. -Lisa Yuskavage

Poor People And The Homeless

You can spend the money on new housing for the poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. -Jello Biafra

The present and the past …..

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback. ~Alain Resnais

Past time is finite, future time is infinite. ~Edwin Powell Hubble

“If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.” ~T. S. Eliot

Walk Beside Me …..

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” ~Albert Einstein

Fill Your Life Up With Ideas

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin”

For What Its Worth

Monday’s weather was strange. Rain, snow, freezing rain, constantly flipping around. It was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of day.

Okay So …..

2020 is a leap year. So February has 29 days, meaning we will have to wait one extra day for Spring to begin.

Walking Outdoors Is On Hold

Miserable, shitty weather, means I will resort to being the ‘hall monitor,’ thing, and do my walking in the halls and stairways. The plus side of it, is not having to wear a coat, and also get to smell the different aromas of the various meals, that are being concocted. Does it make me hungry,Continue reading “Walking Outdoors Is On Hold”

For What Its Worth

The future is staring right in front of you. Make the best of it.

Uninteresting Life

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. ~Mark Twain

Conquering Fear

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

For What Its Worth

The past is history. Time to move on.

For What Its Worth

Thinking positive about one’s self, is a good thing.

No Insulin Needed

As of today (12/28), it will be three months of not having to inject insulin of any kind. It feels good knowing that I don’t need it anymore, unless I screw up by having to much sugar in one day. If the high reading doesn’t go down within a day and a half or so,Continue reading “No Insulin Needed”

For what its worth: I get to see another day.

Walking Is My Go To

Most days, I go on a few walks. Some long, some short. It helps immensely with burning off the sugar and carbs. I am happy with the glucose reading(s), as the are generally in the 90s to the low 100s. The end result: one happy camper.

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

“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” ~Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~Alice Walker

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

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events. ~Albert Einstein

No one has ever died, from an over exposure to education. ~Robert M. Hensel

Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer

Clear Labeling For Genetically Modified Food

Europe believes that providing clear labeling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by vast majority of states in the U.S. -Zac Goldsmith

Rose Bushes

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln

Problems of the world…..

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist

Enjoy Life

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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker

Beautiful People

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do notContinue reading “Beautiful People”

Great News

Saw the diabetes doc (on Tuesday), and the great news is that my A1c is 6.2 which is good. No need for insulin which I have stopped using since the end of September. I only need to see him one more time, that being at the beginning of June. He told me I was doingContinue reading “Great News”

The morning cup of coffee …..

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 –

Water And Life

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Life is …..

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary. ~Albert Einstein

Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan

Life

life it is what it is: life

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one was has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain

“More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting” ~Martin Scorsese

If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat! ~Demitri Martin

Demitri Martin, American Comedian

If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” ~Jim Morrison

“Readers recommend: songs about control” by Peter Kimpton, http://www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

Thinking Silently

thinking silently a smattering of thoughts are swirling in my mind nothing bad nothing harmful nothing slanderous just normal thinking that I usually do throughout the course of the day

Outlook

what keeps me going one step at a time one day at a time think positive watch what i eat drink plenty of water

Movies are not novels ….

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done. ~Paul Auster

“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.” ~Russell Means

Russell Means, B. November 10, 1939 – D. October 22, 2012

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. ~Al Pacino

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” ~Sheryl Sandberg

Thinking

brainstorming + bottomless mugs of strong black coffee >>> produces wild and wacky ideas

Just Thinking

nobody ever said that writing comes easy

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles

Book Reading

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Bookstores

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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon

Coffee – Books

Photo credit: unknown I could do this all day, and night too.

“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

Not Exactly – A Short Story

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”

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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”