Saturday, November 16, 2024

God spoke today in flowers, and I, who was waiting on words, almost missed the conversation.

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  Ingrid Goff-Maidoff

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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Turkish proverb

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. Turkish proverb

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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.

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  Turkish proverb

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

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Henry Miller

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The wisdom of age constitutes the ability to accept reality, which is the knowledge of certain death--substantial, personal, individual exti...

10,000 Starlings

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10,000 starlings have gathered in my bare maple tree over the past few weeks. My car, which gets parked under this tree, became completely c...

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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Less Anxious

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Many people drink a mug of coffee first thing in the morning because caffeine gives them energy. However, caffeine also stimulates the body’...

I am striving to make order out of chaos

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I am striving to make order out of chaos, which is the sweetest pleasure I know. When I succeed, I have a thing, this story, to offer. It is...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Josh Marshall

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Beautiful!
Thursday, November 14, 2024

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. H.L. Mencken

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H.L. Mencken

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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is ri...

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable... H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

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Books Help

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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, ...

Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

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 Fabulous book!

troglodyte; plural noun: troglodytes (especially in prehistoric times) a person who lived in a cave. a hermit. a person who is regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Jean-Luc Godard

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