Biggest mistake thus far: ordering a large popcorn at a screening of Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse at Lincoln Center.
Every experience is an opportunity for enlightenment.
In high school I was voted ‘Most likely to commit suicide.’
Is it possible nowadays to find any journalism that isn’t ‘snarky’?
Caught up in the onrush of technology, ever conversing virtually, one suddenly finds oneself age 70 with little meaningful to show for it.
One nice thing about yoga is that you don’t have to stretch beforehand.
Macaulay Culkin reprises his role in the remake of Home Alone.
“Modern life is about having to foresee everything: take zero risks, and live from your cradle to your grave. But there’s nothing worse than that. . . Even though man wants to absolutely know what tomorrow will be made of, the excitement of life is from not knowing what tomorrow will bring. Tomorrow is another day. That’s all. . . something different. Something will happen, must happen. Otherwise, it’s going to be dull. Life can only be made of unpredictable things.”
—Robert Maloubier, agent in Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive, swashbuckler, special ops trainer, bush pilot, businessman, unretired retiree
We produce and dispose of a plastic bottle just so that we can drink 8 ounces of water. Why doesn’t anyone see the insanity of that?
information overload. . . information. . . overload. . . human brain. . . cannot. . . process. . . THE STATIC THE STATIC THE STATIC THE STATIC 0001 001 110 01010 01001 01001 01010
If the nature of mental health is order, integration, individuality, and that of reality is non-individuality, how can one hope to see reality? — This is a paradox. Yet, there’s an answer.
This society is crazy. Therefore, we’re all neurotics. All insane. The insane, in many ways, are the most sane.
If by ‘think’ Keats means ‘meditate,’ then, yes.
The elements are great teachers.
I will give you a new name. Your spirit name is Sashimi Bagel Krishna Das Ramen Noodle Delicio.us .Gov
Why is it that the art of most (supposed) spiritual masters is bad?
That cookie affected me adversely.
People’s realities are much more divergent than most believe.
Can I get a ‘do over’ on this life thing?
Spring has never been more welcome.
Everything seems rich and strange, transmogrified, holy.
The past is a dream, the future a fantasy.
To know the hidden thoughts of others would be horrifying.
I seem to live in a world that cares nothing for literature or the life of the mind. Money is the unchallenged lord of this world— How can one go on?
– journal, May 25, 2010
At this very moment, I feel wonderful. I don’t know why.
Sitting at the french bistro table in my kitchen, listening to Joaquin Rodrigo, and writing by candlelight.
Yoga – meditation = stretching
The people will die, but the music will continue.
In the courtyard, the children frolic among refuse.
Bringing wonder to someone about something for the first time— nothing like it!
Homosapiens have outgrown their use. What is the purpose of our species on this planet?
Living in tumultuous times. For the weather is tumultuous— and we’ve made it so.
In the sordid business of examining the human soul
Can dreams be felt?
The world has become too complicated
The busiest pauper in North America
I will not be a slave to the computer when there are trees outside trembling with wind and rain.
All the carbon in your body comes from star dust
Looking to buy some more momentum. My last batch ran out.
“Looking at photos of peoples’ vacations used to be considered a punishment.”
–Betty White, in reference to Facebook
At least the straight community still has Enrique Iglesias. Bailamos!
”Under the legislation, health insurance will be extended to nearly all Americans, new taxes imposed on the wealthy, and restrictive insurance practices such as refusing to cover people with pre-existing medical conditions will be outlawed. The Republicans have vowed to continue resisting it.” –BBC News
Back on Boogie Street. (And, frankly, don’t know if I like it.)
“President Obama slams obstructionist Republicans at GOP issues retreat”… “President Obama dove headfirst into the belly of the GOP beast Friday – and left the not-so-loyal opposition bleeding on a Baltimore ballroom floor”…
“Slams.” “Left [them] bleeding.” This is precisely the kind of sensational, attention-grabbing, divisive language he’s speaking against, ‘liberals’ as culpable as ‘conservatives.’ If he’s intended to “slam” or “stab” anything, it’s the willful language of divisiveness.
So difficult to part with clothing I’ve had for 5, 10 years, because they’ve become like a second skin, and with each piece that goes also a kaleidoscope of fond and fraught memories…
Can one feel empathy without feeling sympathy?
What do these people want? A cake with beans on top?
I used to dance. How I pirouetted. All the boys were after me. I was such a beauty.
Times are crazy. People are strange.
