To thine own self be true

“Infinite possibility is good, not bad.”
-James Gleick, The Information

“He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.”
-John Donne

from Biden quoting Trump on clean electricity:
“LED is no good. It makes me look orange.”

with its perpetual question: How much is so-and-so worth?

BTW/ I noticed the Redskins changed their name for one reason: money.

The modern American Dream remains about money, first and foremost. Examples: Trump. Republicans.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley to Betsey DeVos:

“I wouldn’t trust you to care for a house plant let alone my child.”

a nest of vipers
a string of ponies
an army of caterpillars
a den of thieves
an embarrassment of riches
a mess of pottage
an exaltation of larks
a skulk of friars
a gang of elk
a parliament of owls
a murder of crows
a herd of harlots
an incredulity of cuckolds
a flush of plumbers
an inertia of janitors
a file of manicurists
a descent of relatives
a sniff of waiters
a sclerosis of fast foods
a streak of gamblers
a bouquet of winetasters
a heep of syncophants
a spread of centerfolds
a crack of chiropractors
a wince of dentists
a wrangle of philosophers
a shower of meteorologists
a blur of Impressionists
an odium of politicians
a marvel of unicorns

(selected from James Lipton’s imaginative An Exaltation of Larks)

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
–Winston Churchill

Giant peony

“Claire de Lune”and “Mona Lisa”.

below, the road
was a good provider.

was there ever a more simple, optimistic opening to a movie than that of 1955’s Oklahoma, which you can watch on YouTube?

Or a nicer, more romantic song and dance than Gene Kelly’s ” Heather on the Hills” in Brigadoon, which you can also watch on YouTube?