Archive For April 30, 2017
To mark President Donald Trump’s first one hundred days in office, Buzzfeed asked ten writers to sum up their emotions in one hundred words. Four long years later, I would like you to remember, some folks saw the future. 100 Words for Trump’s Presidency by Ibram X. Kendi Kellyanne Conway birthed the term…
Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving. – Harold Mayfield If everybody you love is in trouble, are you okay? I have been giving this question a great deal of thought lately. The answer seems like the solution…
“there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it’s too late and there’s nothing worse than too late” ― Charles Bukowski
What a superior man seeks is in himself; what a small man seeks is in others. – Confucius I needed a new victim. 2017 is the year of the Rooster. You just don’t establish a pattern like this, then break the sequence. This shit’s confusing. Horses are thought to be particularly incompatible with Rat and…
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. – Emil Zatopek Possible truism, you can learn much about…
You are a child. You have hope and a future. You like girls. They don’t always like you. Or those that like you, you don’t like. And you can get confused. You become a man. You remain confused. Imagine you imagine you are a writer. And you hear a line like I want to kiss…
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.–Thomas Carlyle I am I am my own performance piece. I am my own worst enemy. And I know it. I am surprised to be here. Still. I am…
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. – Malcolm X World always seemed upside down. Something been bothering him since the fifth grade. The banker was a thief, the minister was a liar, the butcher didn’t…
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. – D. Nevill Neither of us likes to be told what to do. Not her, not me. We have talked about it. “Admit it. It’s true.” “Oh, no question.”…
The old man had everybody in the neighborhood convinced he was a retired master gunnery sergeant in the Coast Guard Special Forces. Couple folks said something like “I never heard of the Coast Guard Special Forces.” “Exactly,” he said. And kept walking. The old man looked fantastic with his clothes on. Best you can…