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Reading A Novel
“Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist’s head, and you invest many hours to do so.” ~ Jay McInerney Continue reading
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Hard Work
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” ~ Stephen King Continue reading
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Two Sentences
Life’s short. Make the best of it. Continue reading
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Six Words Redux
Do it yourself, works for me. Continue reading
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Six Words
High on life is all good. Continue reading
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Wrong Planet
“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?” ~ George Harrison – Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001 Continue reading
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Materials Of Knowledge
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ~ John Locke Continue reading
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Back In Time
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~ Harvey Mackay Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Moving forward. Not looking back. What’s the point of it. Continue reading
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Majority Of Men
“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher – 1788-1860 Continue reading
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Suddenly Wake Up
“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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So
The expression, “you’re older than dirt.” So, how old is dirt? Continue reading
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Six Words Sunday
Lazy day. Idling by. Forward moving. Continue reading
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Life Is One Big Road
“Life is one big road with lots of signs,So when you riding through the ruts,Don’t you complicate your mindFlee from hate, mischief and jealousyDon’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.” ~ Bob Marley Continue reading
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The Charming Gardeners
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust Continue reading
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Its Worth It
I wear a mask in public, to protect you and me. Its the right thing to do. Continue reading
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Two Sentences
Never said I was perfect. Far from it. Continue reading
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Six Words
Watching old Andy Griffith on Sundance. Continue reading
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Sunsets
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” ~ John Lubbock, 1834-1913 Continue reading
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The Crazy Ones
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently – they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… Continue reading
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Six Words Redux
I’m old school…. because I’m old. Continue reading
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Six Words
Lack of thoughts. Mind’s on vacation. Continue reading
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One Day Left
“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre Continue reading
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Two Sentences
TV weatherman says more snow on the horizon. Its winter, so it comes with the territory. Continue reading
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Nihilist
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists. ~ Albert Camus Continue reading
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Written In Cursive
Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson. ~ Ann Beattie Continue reading
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Jingoism
The avante-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense. ~ David Mamet Continue reading
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Its Like This
Walking, which I do several times a day, helps keep me in shape, control my blood sugar levels, and air out my head. I will pound the sidewalks in most any type of weather, except when its pouring rain, and/or if the snow is coming down to hard. Continue reading
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The Mad Ones
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Six Words
So… here I sit, doing nothing. Continue reading
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Law Of Life
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ~ John F. Kennedy Continue reading
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February
February, the shortest month of the year, is already at the mid way point. Before you know it, the month of March will be here, and February will just be a memory. Continue reading
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Butterfly
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller Continue reading
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Six Words
Life: it is what it is. Continue reading
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The Sun
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” ~ Galileo Galilei Continue reading
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Six Word Sunday
Keeping the beat. Life is grand. Continue reading
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Understanding Ourselves
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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The Opportunist
“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist–while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!” ~ Lori Greiner – Inventor, Born: December 9, 1969 Continue reading
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“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes – Philosopher, 1588-1679 Continue reading
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Realistic Fiction
“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin – Author, Born: October 21, 1929 Continue reading
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Define Your Character
“Go without a coat when it’s cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it’s all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you’re Continue reading
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Six Words
I am I. You are you. Continue reading
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Three Things
“Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes” ~ Immanuel Kant Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
So today, I did a load of laundry. Just one of many of life’s rituals. Continue reading
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Bleak Midwinter
“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.” ~ Christina Rossetti, Poet 1830-1894 Continue reading
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Good Books
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes Continue reading
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The Coffee Shop
“…Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.” ~ Mark Driscoll Continue reading
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Houston Coffee House Scene
“Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.” ~ Billy Continue reading
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Cup Of Coffee
“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.” ~ Richard Brautigan Continue reading
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Second Covid-19 Vaccine Shot
I got my second Pfizer vaccine shot today. So, in about two weeks, I should be 95% protected. Still will be wearing the mask, and it looks like its going to be a while, before that becomes history. Now to wake up with a sore arm in the morning, along above average glucose (sugar) readings. Continue reading
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Propaganda And Education
“The only difference between ‘propaganda’ and ‘education,’ really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don’t believe in is propaganda.” ~ Edward Bernays Continue reading
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