Archive For The “The Mind Game” Category
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one. – John Lennon Say what you will about Meta Zuckerberg, but at least he keeps track of our memories. Like this nocturnal mind trip to Texas from December 19, 2012. I…
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is….
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. – Henry David Thoreau Over a half million Americans have died from the Covid virus since last Thanksgiving. I am grateful I am not one of them. Nor my loved ones. Happy about you, too. I give thanks for the vaccines and the…
Cross Country teaches teamwork, camaraderie, discipline, dedication, motivation, planning, hard work, time management, confidence, following directions, goal setting, competition, taking risks, mental toughness, overcoming injuries, dealing with failure and success, etc., etc. etc. – Ron Wayne One time, early 1970s, maybe Lake Mary Meadows, I was at a race, small as all were back in those…
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Abnormal Anti-Aging Fitness Routine First thing you do, work on that attitude. Drink an abnormal amount of water. Run an abnormal amount of hours. Walking is good, too. If walking, stride abnormally fast as you can. Avoid an abnormal amount of fried food….
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Finally decided to visit some family who do not live in the same house I do. It’s a bit of a trek and I’ve been locked up since I got my haircut on March 11, 2020. So, I…
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary…
One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. – Charles Baudelaire By my tenth glass of wine I started to wonder whether there was something wrong with my palate. Everyone else was marking the wine list with notes like “Pleasant…
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill Let’s not give up on the entire 21st century yet. It’s easy to be pessimistic about the future, maybe partly because awful is easier to imagine — and kinda more exciting. You probably never saw “Death Race 2000,”…
The Peekskill riots took place at Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York, in 1949. The catalyst for the rioting was an announced concert by BLACK singer Paul Robeson, who was well known for his strong pro-trade union stance, civil rights activism, communist affiliations, and anti-colonialism. The concert, organized as a benefit for the Civil Rights Congress, was scheduled…