Monday, May 19, 2025

It takes me out of my own limited, chosen world.

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I do a lot of writing and note-taking on trips: in airports, on airplanes, on trains. I recommend taking public transportation whenever p...

This was why she could not sleep.

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“This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.” ― Lydia D...

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“Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of co...

The Return of Odysseus by George Bilgere

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Darya Navalnya

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"No matter how many people try to deceive themselves, hoping that another madman who clings to power will behave decently in response t...

Like Riding a Bicycle poem by George Bilgere

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the reader’s bravery is allowing himself to trust the writer, to surrender himself to the world she has created.

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A novel, in its truest form, is a questioning of what it means to be human, of what a life is. But what makes it different from, say, a wor...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

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Jorge Luis Borges 

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Jorge Luis Borges

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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. Jorge Luis Borges

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

We've been in a POLITICAL PANDEMIC since the MONSTER took office.

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I love this poem. It's a painting with words.

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The Coffee Cup by Donald Hall The newspaper, the coffee cup, the dog’s ...

Learning the Quirks

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The reason my car has malfunctioned a few times is due to my interfering with disobeying the proper sequences. I am used to a standard shif...

Dream

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I dreamed that I found a book of Edward Hicks paintings in a used books pile at the library and opened it and my name was written inside i...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

When the Seasons Change (with Pollen & Full Moon)

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I saw a sun dog this morning on my way home from walking Romeo. The south end of our street was closed due to road work. I was at our inters...

poet Ezra Pound once said, “Literature is news that stays news.”

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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do. Gandhi

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Maybe I should write down what a dream staff meeting would be like where I could share my excitement about what I am learning about teachi...

I once told my kids that their taste buds change with every shoe size, in an effort to explain to them that their food tastes will change as they grow. They've always taken it very literally, and try foods they've hated in the past with curiosity every time they get new shoes.

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Gretchen Ronnevik Quotes from my kids, this balmy Sunday morning of 29°F: “Why do I have to wear a coat? It’s above zero!” “I just want to...
Monday, May 12, 2025

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You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experienc...

At the table, one never grows old. Italian Proverb

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 I also feel this way about teaching swimming and English. It gets me into the moment and out of myself.  "A tavola non s’invecchia ma...