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Street Art ~ Lies
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I’ll read my books ….
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. […]
Coffee Quote
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On a summer night ….
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~ Bernard Williams
Coffee
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer / 1749 – 1832
Virtual Reality
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Mind is consciousness
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. ~ Ramana Maharshi
Benign Indifference Of The Universe ~ Albert Camus
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of 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
What was once thought can never be unthought. ~ Friedrich Dilrrenmatt
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. ~ Victor Frankl
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In A Conumdrum
mug of coffee to my left open laptop in front of me a new book that was started this morning sits to the right of me now what the hell shall I do flip a coin rock paper scissors put a blindfold on and pick one spin the bottle good luck
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King
A Precious Privilege
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours in watching television. ~ David Letterman
“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, Writer – Born: July 3, 1883 – Died: June 3, 1924
“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg, Poet – Born: June 3, 1926 – Died: April 5, 1997
Look For Beauty ~ Richard Paul Evans
‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~ John Burroughs
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. ~ John Steinbeck
June Cleaver didn’t keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it. ~ Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley , played June Cleaver in “Leave it to Beaver”
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Summer ~ Hal Borland Quote
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~ Hal Borland
What is one to say about June …. ~ Gertrude Jekyll
Short Story
During his morning stroll, the elderly man is curious, as to how many bricks did they use in making the one block long sidewalk. Maybe one day, he will find the answer, by the tedious task of counting the red rectangular blocks of clay.
A Single Conversation … ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain
A Pondering Moment
overloaded thinking brings on headaches
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. ~ Albert Einstein
People living deeply have no fear of death. ~ Anais Nin
The weird and the stupid …
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ~ Carl Bernstein
Ursula K. Le Guin Quote
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, American author 1929-
Four Words
peacefuly spending quality time
“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” ~ Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac, Novelist ~ 1799 – 1850
Acceptance
Six Words
I am me therefore I exist
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead. ~ Oscar Wilde
Three Words
gathering one’s thoughts
Rachel Carson ~ Nature
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” ~ Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams, Former First Lady of the United States – 1744 – 1818
Three Words
aimlessly ambling along
Alice Walker Quote
“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis
Miles Davis, Musician – B: May 26, 1926 – D: September 28, 1991
Fantasy is the only truth. – Abbie Hoffman
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. – Iris Murdoch
Life is existence with meaning. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
Consciousness is nature’s nightmare. – Emile M. Cioran
Balance is balancing. – John Dewey
Three Words
Enjoy the moment.
We dance for ….. – Albert Einstein
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. – Albert Einstein
A Pondering Moment
put today’s bullshit in the dumpster make tomorrow a better day
Zen Saying
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting. -Zen Saying
There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure. ~ Dennis Wolfberg
Good Or Bad Fortune
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” ~ Hermann Hesse
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau. ~ Anonymous
People Like Us ~ Albert Einstein
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~ Albert Einstein
“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” ~ Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, B: May 24, 1941
The Great Unknown
You’ll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. ~ Hannah Harding
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. ~ Stephen King
Yeah
it’s one of them days that I don’t feel like doing a damn thing
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. ~ Steven Wright
Douglas Adams Quote
In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been regarded as a bad move. ~ Douglas Adams
Music causes us to think eloquently. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is like a drug. Too much of it kills you. ~ Small Gods
A Pondering Moment 2
knowing what you already know is known so that is all you need to know
Life before death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. ~ Brandon Sanderson
A Mystery
Watching a mysterious mystery which in turn is a total mystery to figure out as its a complete and ultimate mystery to seek answers to the mystery of all mysteries
To read a book …..
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~ Chinese Saying
A Pondering Moment
Write using the right words and then it will look and read right.
Music is a safe kind of high. ~ Jimi Hendrix
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. ~ Stephen Hawking
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is writing? Writing is telepathy. ~ Stephen King
Writing is not a MacDonald’s Hamburger. ~ Natalie Goldberg
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of television existence. ~ Richard Helms
If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn’t. ~ Alec Sulkin
Diane Arbus Quote
Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and again, that when you come right down to it everyone one is different. ~ Diane Arbus
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. ~ John Jensen
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot
The less men think; the more they talk. ~ Charles Montesquieu
“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” ~ Claude Bernard
Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all. ~ David Lynch
I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee. ~ Clark Gable
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ~ Edward Coke
Six Word Story
No coffee, her day is doomed.
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~ Panin
Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ~ Stephen King
Joseph Addison Quote
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” ~ Joseph Addison, Essayist 1672 – 1719
Be who you are. ~ Rita Mae Brown
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” ~ Rita Mae Brown. Writer – B: November 28, 1944
May 14
Today, May 14 makes it one full year, that I quit smoking, and I don’t miss it.
The American Dream has run out of gas. ~ J. G. Ballard
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam… ~ J. G. Ballard, British author 1930-
