Monthly Archives: May 2013

-common sense -intelligence -sense of humor and wit -decency -sensibility -personal depth -natural capacity to respond to beauty -creative consciousness -empathy and sympathy -civility and courtesy -gentleness, kindness and caring -natural innocence, awe, and wonder -natural curiosity -appreciation -institutions that truly … Continue reading →

sells me my T.O.papers every Saturday morning at the corner convenience store. He happily tells me he is going back to India for two months and wonders how life will have changed there with the auto giants and changes to … Continue reading →

If someone hangs on or around long enough, then he or she might finally get what s/he really wants, needs, or deserves.

“Hell is other people.”–Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit Indubitably. One has only to refer to the wisdom of myriad books, plays, and films. Or reflect on the amount of violence and conflict in society leading to such things as abuse, assault, … Continue reading →

The subtlety in the book no film could ever represent– “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out … Continue reading →

(of the limited/limiting kind) ‘My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. ‘Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak. ‘What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? ‘I never know what you are thinking. Think.’ -from … Continue reading →

I’m painting my room in the colourful way And when my mind is wandering There I will go. -McCartney-Lennon, “Fixing a Hole”, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.–John Burroughs It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.–Oscar Wilde Nature is painting … Continue reading →

“I’m taking the time for a number of things/That weren’t important yesterday/And I still go” -McCartney-Lennon, “Fixing a Hole”, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

It was the warmest, sunniest day I can remember. Dadda and mama packed me and the dog in the car and we went to ganma and ganpa’s house across town. I remember having been there before and when we got … Continue reading →