“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
For What Its Worth
Welcome to the new reality.
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, I reccomend a good walk and enjoy every minute of it.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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, not really, as I do the walking on a full stomach.
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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”
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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, the doc told me to give myself one shot of insulin, and that should bring it down. Also, not taking any pills for type 2 diabetes, and that’s a good thing.
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
