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And who by fire, who by water Who in the sunshine, who in the night time Who by high ordeal, who by common trial Who in your merry month of May Who by very slow decay and who shall I say is calling? – Leonard Cohen A meditation on peace & pyrotechnics. We don’t know…
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. – Charles Bukowski I study writers like a eccentric philatelist examines a rare stamp. Like a recently hired assistant coach watches videotape of an upcoming opponent. What makes him special? Study authors like a little boy who wants to be just like them. How do…
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any…
Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all others. It was a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body…
We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they’re dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic. – Hunter S. Thompson After…
During a 1959 Kerouac appearance on Steve Allen’s variety show, the host asked him how he’d define the word: “Beat”. “Sympathetic,” replied Kerouac. Jack Kerouac, considered his “true-life” novels as comprising “one vast book like Proust’s except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed,” turns 100 years old…
The strongest prison is the one where you are afraid to leave even though the door is open! There is no more heavy imprisonment than being afraid to be free! – Mehmet Murat ildan The United States reported more deaths from COVID-19 last Friday (3/4/22) than deaths from Hurricane Katrina, more on any two recent weekdays than…
How many women watch tvAnd so are scarred by what they seeThe silent victims of the wars of menThe wives, the mothers, who once again Must wait and weep, then one day mournTheir husbands, for the child they’d bornTo die in some forgotten field.What weapons can these warriors wield? – Irene C S ClarkHogg https://www.internationalwomensday.com/
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ― George Orwell The proposed law, often referred to by critics as “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, bans public school districts from “encouraging” classroom discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity. State Rep. Joe Harding, a Republican who introduced the bill into the…
And while the hearse was delivering legendary Browning Ross to his final resting place, members of the Gloucester Catholic High School track team he coached so proudly jogged alongside in a tear-provoking, gut-wrenching tribute. – Gloucester City News Browning Ross, 74, Founder of Road Runners By Frank Litsky for The New York Times. April 30, 1998….