life – A Pondering Mind

11:07 a.m.

busy as a bee no rest for the weary the end will be at no appointed hour

its the time of year that the longest day of year is upon us. the reverse will happen as the days will be on the road to getting shorter… and nothing can be done about it … so we just grin and bear it….

11:29 a.m.

got to see blood work results online and my A1c is 5.8 a a glucose level of 117 which is down from the last test earlier this year the A1c then was 6.0 a level of 125 so I feel good knowing that I’m doing the right things and eating right and drinking plenty ofContinue reading “11:29 a.m.”

Traveling

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

5:02 p.m.

no complaints life is good

Coffee, Book, etc.

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.” ~John Burroughs

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us. ~Paul Theroux

“If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell.” ~David Cook

David Cook, Singer-songwriter

Essentials To Happiness

Joseph Addison, Essayist, Born: May 1, 1672 – Died: June 17, 1719

Dogs Are Leaders

Dogs are leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them is making poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge. ~Jerry Seinfeld

Writing Is A Solitary Business

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there. ~Paul Auster

Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life. ~Charles Lamb

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

Books. Cats. Life is good. ~Edward Gorey

two sentences

life in a nutshell? that’s really packing it in.

Three Great Things

The three great things of life are: good health; work, and a philosophy of life. ~Jack London

People

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do rather than what they say. ~Rene Descartes

“Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ~ Ralph Ellison

Life After Death

“The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher ~ 1889 – 1951

Change Your Life

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir

“And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.” ~ Neal Cassady

Six Words

sitting on the couch. dozing off.

“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” ~Rene Descartes

Six Words

a new day. a normal life.

Each Day

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” ~ John Burroughs

Do Silly Things

The Opposite Of

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel

Fear

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” ~Henry Rollins

One Sentence Story

Watching life go by in the rear view mirror.

A Good Friend

“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~ Lois Wyse, Author ~ 1926 – 2007

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. ~Albert Camus

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

“Life’s like a mayonnaise soda.” ~Lou Reed

People Know What They Do

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ~ Michel Foucault, Philosopher – Born: October 15, 1926 – Died: June 25, 1984

3:00 A.M. – Short Fiction

It was one those nights, Ned was tossing and turning, and restless. He looked at the alarm clock, and it read 3:00 a.m. He decided to get up, put his clothes on, grabbed his keys and cigarettes, and went for a walk. The air was warm, and the stars were shining. It felt good toContinue reading “3:00 A.M. – Short Fiction”

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke

“Life is a constant process of dying.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~Jack Kerouac

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

Two Sentences

Never said I was perfect. Far from it.

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” ~John W. Gardner

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

Love

For What Its Worth

So today, I did a load of laundry. Just one of many of life’s rituals.

“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” ~ Rene Descartes

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” ~Lloyd Alexander

To Find Reality

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” ~ Iris Murdoch

Free Will

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Three Phobias

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.” ~ Tallulah Bankhead

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

“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” ~Robert Frost

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” ~Jeffrey Eugenides

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~Soren Kierkegaard

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey

The Opposite Of Love

To Be A Philosopher

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don’t look for anything else.” ~Bertrand Russell

“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” ~ Patti Smith

“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” ~ Baz Luhrmann*

*Film director

The Greatest Adventure

“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.The chances, the changes are all yours to make.The mold of your life is in your hands to break.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.” ~Louisa May Alcott

Nothing In Nature

“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.” ~ Baruch Spinoza

Be Who You Are

“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

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. ~Henry David Thoreau

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~ Rose Kennedy

Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. ~Fran Lebowitz

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~Anais Nin

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. ~Bruce Springsteen

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James

Life Is The Fire …..

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Is Hard

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ Sydney J. Harris

Human Nature

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ~ Dale Carnegie

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee

Similar But Different

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth. Margaret Atwood

For What Its Worth

With the current situation going on, all we can do is it live it one day at a time.

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

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

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.