Beneath that is a rocky seafloor, which may be teeming with hydrothermal vents and bizarre otherworldly organisms.
So the next time you’re in airport security and frustrated…
Category Archives: Quote
Robert Hayden’s poem “American Journal”
much here is beautiful, dream like vistas reminding me of home
Zweig on Memory
A sort of jellyfish glistening in the abysses of consciousness…
The tragic actor departs: a poem paired with oil paintings
And they are right, I think.
We all hate home
And having to be there.
Carl Sagan on the dumbing down of America and how science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time.
Temptations while rich
Don’t brag about morals until you have money to fund your temptations.
Billy Collins on how no man is lonely while eating spaghetti
This time, I was at a corner table at Pasta Vivace!
on that side street next to the old music store.
To be a scientist is to be naive
What is the cost of lies?
Optimism is a political act.
Perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better.
Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T.S. Eliot reminds us, ‘Not less than everything.’”
Alan watts on the length of life
A long life spent in a miserable way.
Sail away from the safe harbor
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
The same man who wrote “… I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Seek out some simple and true feeling.
Wise Living
Whatever and whoever.