A Pondering Mind

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
~ Nikola Tesla, Inventor, 1856 – 1943

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. ~ Stephen Hawking

A child without education, is like a bird without wings. ~ Tibetan Proverb

“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” ~ Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, B: January 29, 1860 – D: July 15, 1904

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell

Me

I am me
always will be me
no one will
ever change me
as I was born
as me
so
the end result
is a total me
and
I am happy
to be me

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ~ Elizabeth Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny, Born: September 20, 1880 – Died: November 30, 1952

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~ Jeannette Rankin

Time is an illusion-to orators. ~ Elbert Hubbard

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~ Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens, American Poet – 1879 – 1955

I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’ ~ William Butler Yeats

Falsehoods And Nonsense ~ Anne Sullivan

It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
~ Anne Sullivan, American Educator

Poetry ~ Jim Morrison

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they say and feel.
~ Jim Morrison

A Pondering Moment

sit back
relax
with
a book
and
try to
put
the heat
and the
high
humidity
behind you

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen

Grace ~ Pablo Neruda

“He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.”
~ Pablo Neruda, Senator of Chile
Born: July 12, 1904 – Died: September 23, 1973

Easy Reading ~ Maya Angelou

War remains the decisive human failure. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The man of science is a poor philosopher. ~ Albert Einstein

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. ~ Bertrand Russell

Incomes ~ John Locke

“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”
~ John Locke, Philosopher ~ 1632-1704

Four Words

basking in the sunshine

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller

To see the Summer Sky ~ Emily Dickinson

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee –
~Emily Dickinson, c.1879

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~ Okakura Kakuzo

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ~ Erich Fromm

Be as you wish to seem. ~ Socrates

“And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?” ~ Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett, B: January 6, 1946 – D: July 7, 2006

Six Words

Delicious hollandaise sauce on meatloaf extraordinaire

Read Everything ~ William Faulkner

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
~ William Faulkner, Born: September 25, 1897 – Died: July 6, 1962

Nothing Is Absolute ~ Frida Kahlo

Born: July 6, 1907 – Died: July 13, 1954

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. ~ G. C. Lichtenberg

G. C. Lichtenberg, German writer and physicist 1742-1799

Benign Indifference To The Universe ~ Albert Camus

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference to 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

In an infinite Universe anything can happen. ~ Douglas Adams

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. ~ Dorothea Brande

If you rest, you rust. ~Helen Hayes

Just Thinking

stale bread makes
lousy sandwiches

My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. ~ Anne Tyler

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Books are the carriers of civilization …

Books are the carriers of civilization … They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)

Six Word Story

Traveling the infinite highway to freedom.

The City

people on the stoops
watching the passersby
hydrants open
spraying cool water
on the neighborhood kids
ice cream truck has arrived
people lining up
to buy and enjoy
an ice cream or something
cold to drink
to hot cook inside
so pizza and sandwiches
are the meals for the hungry
the ones without a/c suffer
as the temps are stifling
window fans are useless
as they blow hot air
no break in sight
from the swelter
yet the people
are use to it
life in the city

Just Thinking

If Jack Kerouac
were alive
what would
be his
thoughts
of the state
of affairs
this country

It would
surely be
an interesting
read

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. ~ Susan Sontag

Saturday Afternoon

eating a pear

accompanied with

a cup of black

French Roast coffee

while reading

emails

and blogs

A Thought

glitz and glimmer, not my forte

One Liner

All ye caffeine junkies, drink up, and get wired.

Six Word Story

Chasing the American dream. Its elusive.

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone. ~ Thomas Ligotti

Black Coffee

A Nostalgic Moment

Tod Stiles (Martin Milner)
and
Buzz Murdoch (George Maharis)
on
Route 66
an old
black
and
white
television
show
with great
screenwriting
and
acting

Four Words

living, loving, enjoying life.

Six Word Story

Conversing with unicorns and glow worms.

A Pondering Moment

Monday
evening
still
breathing
thinking
eating
reading
and
whatever
else
alive
and
well
human
beings
do

“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” ~ George Carlin

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” ~ George Carlin

“Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” ~ George Carlin

Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….

“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”
~ George Carlin, Born: May 12, 1937 – Died: June 22, 2008

On Some Summer Days In New York City

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn’t one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
~ Diane Ackerman

In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams

“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher – Born: June 21, 1905 – Died: April 15, 1980

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. ~ Harold E. Varmus

Isabella Schomo Quote

Spring procreates, Summer develops, Autumn debilitates & Winter ceases to be. Meeting all forms of life.
~ Isabella Schomo

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~ Jeannette Walls

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

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ~ Susan Sontag

Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago

Quote Master

Journey Through Life ~ William Golding

“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.”
~ William Golding

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