Fish-Horse: Tuna Horseradish Sandwich

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Worcester Marathon, Wrong Country

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Octavio Paz

You start by imitating others, there is lack of clarity, there are many reasons to fail. But there is a seed that slowly grows.
OCTAVIO PAZ

Enter the Conversation

You really can’t get a certificate saying “You’re a Writer Now.” The way that I became a writer is by reading a great deal and wanting to enter into the conversation with other authors, many of whom were dead, and imitating their style, however unconsciously.
PHILLIP LOPATE

you don’t have to go along with any of this

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don’t accept things for their face value; you don’t have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.
JEANETTE WINTERSON

A Priviledge

I now think of writing as a privilege—as a gift that's been given to me. Any day that I don't get to write something—anything—is a day I have to spend being someone other than who I am.
LARRY GELBART

Harlan Ellison

I take my place at the table and ask myself, “What will I do today?” That’s how I do it. I think you’re at the cutting edge when you stay close to the heart and draw a little blood.
HARLAN ELLISON

Wash Afterwards

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.
W.H. AUDEN

With a Pen

Write first with a pen. It’s too easy on the computer to change a word, then forget what it was. Also, don’t get too social. Write for whatever holy thing you believe in, not for your poetry workshop fellows. And dare once in a while to throw a poem away. The main thing is to know that your craving to write is the big thing and will continue, and is more valuable than the finished poem. I do this myself, plenty.

MARY OLIVER

Hal Herzog

Hal Herzog, Ph.D., is the author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard To Think Straight About Animals.
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Hal's book website: http://halherzog.com/

About Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/201412/84-vegetarians-and-vegans-return-meat-why

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/201909/do-emotional-support-animals-need-emotional-support

Love Reading

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Reading will seem more like chocolate cake if it’s something that parents themselves take part in happily and regularly. “When I’m sitting there on my couch, reading a book, and my kids are doing their own thing, I like to think, ‘I’m parenting right now—they can see me reading this book,’” Russo told me. Similarly, Paul said that if “right after dinner, the first thing you do is scroll through your phone, open up your laptop, or watch TV,” kids are likely to take note. Parents are constantly sending their children messages with how they choose to spend their free time.

Parents don’t have to have grown up avid readers themselves to raise avid readers. Paul and Russo both suggested a bunch of things that parents can do to make reading seem exciting and worthwhile: talk about books during meals or car rides, indicating that they’re just as compelling a subject of conversation as the day’s events; make regular stops at libraries and bookstores, and stay a while; and give books as birthday gifts.

Caring for your Introvert

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Perhaps

Perhaps I am still a photographer but I carry a dog instead of a camera.

Dream

I dreamed I was in the local police station using their in-house gym. I tried running on their treadmill. A female officer came in and I asked her about her job. "I don't do vice or chase guys, I am head of food safety. I investigate food poisoning." Her uniform was a white shirt, red tie, and black pants. She was eating a salad from the in-house cafeteria. "I guess it's lunchtime," I realized and woke up.

Curious

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
― Colette

Author

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

Perfect Companions

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
― Colette

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
― Colette

“There are no ordinary cats.”
― Colette

A Few

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

Enthusiasm

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

Books

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”
― Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette