Keep on writing, no matter what! That’s the most important thing. As long as you have a job on hand that absorbs all your mental energy, you haven’t much worry to spare over other things. It serves as a suit of armor. Eugene O'Neill

 Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. Jack Kerouac

what the world asks of you is courage

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

ROBERT McKEE

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. Alice Childress

We should look inward and think about the meaning of our life and its purposes, lest we do it in 20 or 30 years and it’s too late. Robert Coles

Hi Neighbor!

It was the bumper sticker that gave Eugenia away. The woman was swapping out license plates, wearing blonde wigs over her brown hair, hiding drugs in the engine compartment, but the tell was that darn bumper sticker. The detectives knew what to look for. They knew all about the tilted lady and her brother-in-law in prison and the decorative pillow found in the last raid, WE'RE NOT A DRUG HOUSE WE'RE A DRUG HOME. But this time it was the HI NEIGHBOR bumper sticker on the back of the silver Buick that did her in.

1,000 Top Hats, Dinosaur Masks, Easels: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers

 https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/08/classroom-teacher-school-supplies-free-art-materials/

When asked why he wanted to turn his life into a comic book, Harvey Pekar said, “I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.”

Tikkun olam (Hebrew: תִּיקּוּן עוֹלָם) translates literally to "repairing the world" or "healing the world". It is a central concept in Judaism that describes human responsibility for improving, fixing, and elevating society and the physical world.

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller 

It doesn’t matter how scared you are; everyone is scared. Work. Work is the only thing that takes the curse of fear away.

JERRY SALTZ

FOXBORO YMCA is Looking for an AQUATICS DIRECTOR

The Hockomock Area YMCA is hiring a full-time Aquatics Director for its Foxboro Invensys Branch in Foxborough, Massachusetts.  

Hockomock Area YMCA Staff Family Page

67 Mechanic Street Foxboro, Massachusetts (508) 543-2523  

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?
― Simone Weil

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
― Simone Weil

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.
― Simone Weil

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
― Simone Weil

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
― Simone Weil

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace