Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ― Charlotte Brontë Nothing has meant more. How I feel about freedom. Mine not yours to take.
If you finish second with a PR, you can still celebrate. But refuse to concede, you’re a loser. I am struck by the idea that wearing a mask is such a great burden. Especially when you know a quarter million of your countrymen have died from a plague currently raging all around you. How nice…
But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last. – Ray Bradbury “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury is a short short story about a future time. Which feels like today. Or tonight. To enter out into…
The essence of gift-giving does not rely on material things, but on something transcendent, as if it were the last and the only thing that one could willingly give, that gently makes the soul smile.― Danny Castillones Sillada I’m full of holiday spirit. It’s called vodka. Sometimes understanding what a woman wants is difficult. It’s like…
No matter what the day brings and no matter how hard life hits you, if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on! Once you have life, know that God is alive! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Having that kind of day where I go to the doctor’s office and forget to get a flu shot. Finally…
Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, No matter how difficult, No matter how unfair, You will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it. – Joel Osteen Awaiting the latest results with the dog at my feet and the ghost of John Lewis next to me, news like…
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. – Bikram Choudhury The civil conflict cum kleptocratic coup continues. He thought. The war goes on. His neighbor said. It’s a win for big business, the landlord lobby and the police union. It’s unfortunate that voters couldn’t see…
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat. – Adolf Hitler I can’t go on. I’ll go on. Samuel Beckett
There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. – Robert Brault The missus and I once played a drinking game whereby we’d take a slug every time somebody said the F-word on the new show, which had been favorably reviewed. The show was “Deadwood”…
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog. – Charles M Schulz