Archive For November 21, 2020
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.
Thinking we send Seal Team Six into the White House and broadcast the final episode of The Apprentice worldwide. Imagine the ratings. – Barker Ajax Saw a note in the paper. The League of United Latin American Citizens, led by Dallas lawyer Domingo Garcia, has prodded the Army to rename Fort Hood for Sgt. Roy Benavidez,…
“Remake, reuse, reassemble, recombine—that’s the way to go.” The most counterfeited of all Andy Warhol’s work are his Marilyn prints. Thought it ironic somebody is selling a famous copy. For more money than his prints cost. Because it’s phony. Wikipedia offers the best description of Sturtevant’s beginnings. Sturtevant’s earliest known paintings were made in New…
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…
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton Among athletes, road racers are notoriously outspoken. Underpaid and overworked. It was great fun. You’re alone off by yourself, and there’s a lot of pain, and plenty of time to think. The following appeared in the ROAD section of “U.S….
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…
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality. – John McCain BY PAUL M. RENFRO for Time. APRIL 15, 2020 When President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last…
This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.― Victor…