“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be Happy”
attributed to Ben Franklin but actually not Ben Franklin
May 5 2023
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be Happy”
attributed to Ben Franklin but actually not Ben Franklin
Apr 17 2023
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, at times it's only me.
-Bob Dylan, “Every Grain of Sand”
Jan 20 2023
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build…
Read moreDec 11 2022
"We have a tendency to want to swing into various dominances. Right now the idea of the stiffening of the cynics, that these very traditional interpretations of our values are kind of trying to become more rigid, more narrow minded…
Read moreNov 29 2022
Aug 17 2022
Freedom of expression—“the whole thing, the whole ball game,” Rushdie once called it—is a universal value that has to be enshrined in law to have any force. But it can’t survive as an abstraction. It depends on public opinion. “If…
Read moreAug 11 2022
I am done
With great things and big things
With great institutions and big
Success
I am for
Those tiny, invisible, molecular
Moral forces
That work from individual to individual
Through the crannies of the world
Like so many rootlets…
Jul 20 2022
The infinite way of doing finite things
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one
George Bernard Shaw
Jun 29 2022
What each must seek in his life never was
on land or sea. It is something out of his own
unique potentiality for experience, something
that never has been and never could have been
experienced by anyone else
Joseph Campbell
…
Read moreJun 17 2022
People predict by making up stories
People predict very little and explain everything
People live under uncertainty whether they like it or not
People believe they can tell the future if they work hard enough
People accept any explanation as…
Feb 20 2022
The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent
silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often
achieves a desired effect where no combination of words,
howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
Mark Twain
Jan 20 2022
….Atmosphere harmony. Even the sounds are infused
with quiet. With his carved stick, the drummer is beating
in perfect rythym, which means so in tune with
the whole locale that you are never aware of him, yet the
flux of…
Dec 28 2021
The mere act of observing something changes
the nature of the thing observed
Werner Hiesenberg
Dec 9 2021
What you do speaks so loud that I can't
hear what you are saying
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oct 31 2021
You ask my thoughts
through the dark night?
I spent it listening
to the heavy rain
beating against the windows
Izumi Shikibu