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Problem And Soultion

If your problem has a solution then… why worry about it? If your problem doesn’t have solution then… why worry about it? Chinese Proverb

“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this ‘I’ that ‘I’ know.” ~ Rene Descartes

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. ~ Alice Paul

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Bad guys do what good guys dream. ~Rene Balcer

Bad literature is a form of treason. ~Joseph Brodsky

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. ~Jim Henson

Music may not make you a genius …..

“Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.” Joanne Lipman

Great books help you understand, and they help you understood. ~John Green

Spring Time Snow

Took a walk in the heavy, wet snow. Of course I got kind of wet, I mean really wet, and I seen two other people outside, doing the same thing. It was enjoyable walk, and it helps keep the sugar in check, and also helps with keeping the mind focused. In these dire times, IContinue reading “Spring Time Snow”

For What Its Worth

With all that is going on in the world, my coffee imbibing has started to increase. Is it a good or bad thing?

“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” ~ T. S. Eliot

You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. ~Eskimo Proverb

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ~Jane Austen

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Injustice and peace cannot co exist. ~Tasneem Hameed

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ~Washington Irving

Learning never exhausts the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci

Its Surely Not The Same

Since COVID-19 has made its presence, it has changed the ways of life. When I go outside to take my walks, there seems to be very few, if that doing the same thing. Also, not that many cars are seen. Its so surreal, its like living in the Twilight Zone.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake. ~Aimee Bender

For What Its Worth

With the COVID-19 virus affecting our way of living, can we now call it “The New Normal?”

A photograph is the best split-second decision one can make. ~Annie O’Reilly

Insecurity is a waste of time. ~Diane von Furstenberg

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ~Anthony Burgess

She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. ~Annie Dillard

Big Enough

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” ~ John C. Maxwell

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. ~Mark Twain

For What Its Worth

We could all use a time out, from the seemingly, neverending media barrage of the Coronavirus. So far, I have been going about the days, and not getting myself all worked up about it.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~Albert Einstein

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. ~Stevie Wonder

A Sheet Of Paper

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. Friedrich Nietzsche

For What Its Worth

Toilet paper, hand sanitizer among other things. Really?

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ~Akiro Kurosawa

City Life

I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. Michael Douglas

Make Coffee

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. Flash Rosenberg

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. ~Mitch Albom

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ~Benjamin Franklin

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane? ~Charles Fort

Music Language

Music is the one universal language. It’s your best friend when the chips are down, and it’s better than any energy drink when you’re feeling it. Dave Smalley

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~Bertrand Russell

Tragedy And Comedy

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. Jeannette Walls

Backpack

So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life. Henry Rollins

“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.” ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

Needle In A Haystack

It’s a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don’t find it. If you don’t give a damn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack. P. G. Wodehouse

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us,and sometimes, they win. ~Stephen King

Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch

When It’s Time

“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. ~Janis Joplin

“At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou

Balance: a dance with how and when. ~Soul Dancer

Enjoy The Day

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” ~ Horace

People can do whatever they want. It’s when they conform to society that they restrict themselves. ~Erin Pracht

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.” ~Janis Joplin

Gilded Age

The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect. William J. Clinton

No such thing

“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.” ~ Henry Rollins

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. ~Sheryl Sandberg

Time Capsules

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. Alfred Hitchcock

Every moment is a new beginning. -Elie Wiesel

Write … write … pencil … paper. ~ Heinrich Heine

No man has the right to dictate …..

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. -Ansel Adams, American Photographer

Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis

Success Is Learned

Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. -Sparky Anderson

Acceptance is the only way out of hell. ~Marsha M. Linehan

You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. ~Joan Jett

For What Its Worth

Animals and birds, know no borders. On the other hand, mankind knows where the borders are, and there lies the problem.

For What Its Worth

Idle thoughts Idle mind Its like living in a different time zone

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess

So long as the universe had a beginning …..

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? ~Stephen Hawking

Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. ~Elizabeth Gilbert

Conquering Some Fear

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Food Security

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ~Bill Gates

Food is as important as energy….

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together. ~Louise Fresco

For What Its Worth

When the mind is passive, then I know that I am with peace with myself.

Making Excuses

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin

For What Its Worth

I’m healthy, not wealthy, but wise.

Order & Chaos

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

Bookish Homeless People

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.