avoiding the attraction of avoiding
========= “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” Jean de La Fontaine =================== “But I live elsewhere; it is only that the attraction of the human world is so...
View Articleicebergs and thoughts
=================== “Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head.” Gregory Galloway ==================== “A foolish...
View Articlethe past is unarguably authentic (kind of)
================= “Authenticity will be the buzzword of the twenty-first century. And what is authentic? Anything that is not devised and structured to make a profit. Anything that is not controlled...
View Articleno enterprise can exist for itself alone
================= “No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others…or failing therein, it ceases to be...
View Articlethe advantage of the incomprehensible
=========== “The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.” Paul Valéry ========== “The moment you decide an event is impossible and therefore stop directing your...
View Articleцветы необычайной красоты & mashkawizii (strength within you)
—— цветы необычайной красоты translation: “flowers of unusual beauty” <note: these words are pulled from a random piece of Russian poetry … or maybe a very old song … I am not sure which … in which...
View Articlerights privileges and existence
========= A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” Stephen Crane ============ “Nature uses as little as...
View Articlebig secrets make small people
============ “Community is the fact that we work toward the same goal, that we accept our respective roles in order to reach it. Values is the fact we trust each other. And, culture? Culture is as much...
View Articleholes and kids
=== “And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” <Beyond Good and Evil> Friedrich Nietzsche === Well. This is mostly about being different. Well. Actually. Maybe this is...
View Articlezone of mediocrity (being comfortable with mediocrity)
—————————————- “Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.” Joseph Heller ————— “We must overcome the notion that we must be...
View Articlenothing remains but certain shreds of the wall
=== “Of these houses Nothing remains But certain shreds of the wall. Of so many Who were close to me Nothing is left Not even that. Of my heart No room still stands Where it lies In the most...
View Articleto accept what you actually did do
==== “I suppose in the end it’s almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What’s harder – what’s much, much harder – is to accept what you...
View Articlethis is not the great america
Earlier today I reshared my thoughts on the lack of civility in political rhetoric and how that fosters an environment of violence – either unacted upon violent thoughts or actual violent actions. I...
View Articleyou scream it if you have to
==================== “When you’re young you feel like you have to prove a point, and you scream it if you have to.” Miranda Lambert ——- Whew. It is a wacky world we live in. It is one huge cacophony of...
View Articlethrough someone else’s eyes
== “… ever wonder what life looks like through someone else’s eyes?” Marissa <on OC> === I am very much a be yourself, be true to thineself, maintain your individuality, look inside rather than...
View Articlemerely inclined to favour the least incompetent
================ “I don’t think any madman ever said ‘Why, what an ass am I!’ “ BBC discussion on Hamlet ================ Well, fortune favors the brave, sir.” “I think that last night, fortune was...
View Articledangerous thing about excuses
=========== “And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.” Robin Sharma ========== “There are moments when one can neither...
View Articlewhere can I put it down?
======= “Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.” Austin O’Malley =============== “You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I...
View Articlehappy 30th MTV
Today, August 1st, is the anniversary of when MTV was ‘born. In 1981 it shared its first video and the VJs (video jockeys) became a thing. It seems like only yesterday that I was in graduate school...
View Articlehumans can do it so quietly
================= “The worst thing about falling to pieces is that humans can do it so quietly.” inkskinned tumblr =========================== “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are...
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