Monthly Archives: October 2018

will be complete in days when pot daze begin. Young adults and teens have been selfishly sold downstream by Justin Dope. The levels of consciousness, thinking, language, education, and discourse in our society is about to take a major hit. … Continue reading →

The world is too much with us: late and soon,/getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. –William Wordsworth Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. –Henry David Thoreau Money is congealed energy and releasing it … Continue reading →

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. –Lin Yutang The simplest things are often the truest. –Richard Bach We still … Continue reading →

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself. –Arthur Conan Doyle The mediocre always feel as if they’re fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent. –Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach ‘Elitism’ is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity. -Sydney J. Harris … Continue reading →

Happiness is in the imagination. What we perform, is always inferior to what we imagine.–Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.–W. Somerset Maugham, The Circle Art attempts … Continue reading →

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”–Proverbs XXIX, 18 “The time is out of joint.”–Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5 “Common sense is very uncommon.”–Horace Greeley “Man’s inhumanity to man/Makes countless thousands mourn!”–Robert Burns, “Man Was Made to Mourn” … Continue reading →

was an Alectoris Chukar Partridge, a rare bird in these parts, on our front lawn just after Thanksgiving, coincidentally. You’ve never seen everything (part 2,720). These birds were native to Europe, but were later introduced to North America. There are … Continue reading →

“Gobble gobble”

(backyard bird bath) by Richard Davies

Another major turning point was buying a Scrabble game in grade 12 (1966-67), which I played with my closest friends Hugh and Dave. (I still play it once a year minimum.) An awakening interest that year in words and language … Continue reading →