Archive For May 31, 2019
Beware, O wanderer. the road is walking too. – J.H. From Jim Harrison:The Essential Poems (Copper Canyon, May 2019). At nineteen I began to degenerate,slight smell of death in my gestures,unbelieving, tentative, wailing…so nineteen years have gone. It doesn’t matter.It might have taken fifty. Or never.Now the barriers are dissolving, the stone fencesin shambles. I want to…
We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference. – Nelson Mandela Back home from Savannah and Charlotte and Waldo and points in between. Feeling like a grizzled warrior. The Interstate Highway system is a battlefield. I get back from vacation, looks like the…
Rule number one: ALWAYS STICK AROUND FOR ONE MORE DRINK. That’s when things happen. That’s when you find out everything you want to know. – John Berendt, Midnight In The Garden of Good & Evil Impressions. Not an easy place to park. One empty spot on the whole street, right in front of my destination….
A few of us always compared anything good to: ‘ Isn’t it just like camp?’ When we first got married, we asked each other, ‘Was your honeymoon good?’ ‘Yeah. It was just like camp.” – Laurie Kahn, Harriet Tubman. [interruption: still too tired to tell all, which, trust me, is in my head. Feel like a warrior who…
Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. – Howard Cosell Let me set this up for you….
I have confession to make. I greatly enjoy going to a book store, ordering the largest coffee offered – one laden with chocolate – and sitting down with a half-dozen books. Books I will be unlikely to purchase. I take many notes. I save money, I save trees. – JDW Success is a great deodorant….
Are you feeling a bit shaken, maybe stirred, maybe fearful and doubtful and completely, utterly, wildly terrified? Good. Keep going. – Victoria Erickson by Betty Mahalik I’ve watched the movie “Chicken Run” at least a half-dozen times. Just beneath the surface of its simplistic look and story line lie a number of wonderful messages told…
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In life, there is no failure, only unwanted results. Most people feel upset or sad because of the results not being what they envisioned in life, business or even poker. The key is that we will all experience this through out our life. You must find a way to deal with it in an empowering…
How to be a better person every day? Watch your dog. – Barker Ajax By DONALD LATUMAHINA (August 2009.) Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Emile Coue Being a better person is a process. No matter how good someone is, he can’t be perfect overnight. So the important thing is that…
The teacher called Little Johnny to her desk and said, “The essay you wrote about your pet dog is word-for-word the same as your brother’s. “What do you have to say for yourself?” “Of course, it is!”, said Little Johnny. “It’s the same fuckin’ dog.” A teacher asks the kids in her 3rd grade class:…