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Not to enchant but an unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three words are opposed to chaos and nothingness. --Czeslaw Milosz

31 December 2020




Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.  Be well dressed but by all means tend to that smiling.
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11 July 2020




The Fish Meets the Water Bearer
Linda Goodman

We searched for each other
in the most unlikely places,
among the most unlikely people,

and when our paths finally crossed,
it was for reasons so entangled
in our daily bread,
and the usual trespasses

that we might not even have noticed,
except for that faint quiver of wonder
like a passing chill from the night air.

We loved
and the closest we’ve come to explaining why,
is because it was you,
and because it was I.



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18 June 2020

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” - Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

“No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.” - Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game 

“And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence.” - Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch


“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it.” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  
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28 April 2020









“We like lists because we don't want to die.”     ~ Umberto Eco



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26 April 2020







 Advice from the ex-con writer Gregory David Roberts, author of Shantaram, to all of us in our daily prison of our own making or of COVID-19

10) NEVER GIVE UP


We have no reason or right to give up.
The generations that came before us, that we carry within us, won’t let us give up.
The generations to come are relying on us never to give up.

Our human family has a sublime capacity to endure for one another and survive, and so far, we have carried the treasures of tenderness, caring and sharing through every terrible crisis that has ever confronted us.
We human beings are empathetic cooperators: when we stand together, nothing can stand against us; we are high-functioning adaptors: we can adapt to the arctic, the desert, below the sea and outer space; and we never give up.

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24 April 2020



In the church of my heart the choir is on fire.




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