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“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Roald Dahl, “The Twits”
Emily Dickinson, writing about a flower: Except to Heaven, she is nought; Except for Angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering Bee, A flower superfluous blown. Except for winds, provincial; Except by Butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the Acre lies. The smallest Housewife in the grass, Yet take her from the
(Another in a continuing series of anecdotes and observations about the writing game.) Thomas Merton was recommended to me by two people when I was floundering. I read his autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain, and I even visited the monastery where he lived (though he had long since passed). He was an accomplished writer and young
Although not as far-reaching as the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn which is just finishing, Mars assuming a retrograde position in Aries in September will make its mark. Mars will be retrograde September 9 to November 13, 2020. And this means? You’ll need to sit down and carefully examine multiple aspects of your life. Do you
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My book of poems. Hooray For parents who name their daughters Desiree! She said neurosis; I thought she said blue roses. Not so much poetry as air hockey prose And although I hope by Sunday to come to It’s not really my place or in my power To make those kinds of dreams come true.
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The bus driver on the bluebonnet route To the gingerbread clinic Has a face like the big flower That squirted when you tried to smell it That I wore on my clown prince costume When I skated all over the world In Holiday on Ice. Here’s me with America’s Sweetheart. The one who almost
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“There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or the other.” Descartes
Judgement or aphorism? Read More »
This may surprise you but I’m very proud of several things we did on the date. If Mother Nature were human, she’d be dead The things we did. But being a distinguished visiting fellow The fact that (a2 – b2) = (a + b) x (a – b) Means we’re playing croquet indoors. When the
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“Ye stars which are the poetry of Heaven! If, in your bright leaves we read the fate Of men and empires—’tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o’erleap this mortal state And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery and create In us
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