Author Archives: rdavies

“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”

-Life is not perfect. People are not perfect. There are many dualities (e.g., appearance and reality, good and evil, individual and society) built into life, individuals, and relationships. For this reason, there will be mixed feelings and conflicts in m/any … Continue reading →

What Viktor Frankl wrote of–Which interesting possibility will I bring into being today? Paraphrasing a doctor talking to an overly anxious patient: We’re all going to die. Some today, some tomorrow, some later, all eventually. ………………………………………………………. Two points which set … Continue reading →

(based on Monet’s “Terrace at Sainte-Adresse”) I am just such a man who sits alone on latticed chairs of afternoon terraces considering the bay. I don’t much mind being the only tourist here who truly notes the bobbing white boats … Continue reading →

No unicorns to follow No princess left to save The king looks o’er his wasted lands With one foot in the grave True magic is impossible When Merlin just does tricks To entertain his captor’s whims And a curse he … Continue reading →

Simply two of the best folk albums of the Sixties. Wildflowers (1967) was the classier, classicier-sounding of the two. Includes two Joni Mitchells (including the best-ever version of “Both Sides Now”), three Leonard Cohens (including the best-ever version of “Hey, … Continue reading →

1. Trump whacking and unilaterally firing Comey and throwing his motives totally into question re. the Russian influence on his election. 2. The now-dead Dutch fertility clinic director who decided to do his own version of The Boys from Brazil … Continue reading →

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“Everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.”–Viktor Frankl “Any landscape is a condition of spirit.”–Henri-Frederic Amiel “In short all good things are wild and free.”–Henry David Thoreau “All is flux, nothing stays still. Nothing is permanent but change.”–Heraclitus … Continue reading →

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