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There are only three answers to prayer— yes, no and wait.
Though the night may come too soon
We have years and years of afternoon.
— The Mikado
from The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations By Elizabeth Smither
Quote I’m pondering —
From Tim Ferris 5-Bullet Friday
“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu
Because I decided that I will not pollute my inbox. And also because I can’t seem to find anything as easily as I can on a blog.
Tried Evernote, Momento, DayOne, GoodNotes…. Go figure.
Good ol’ WordPress seems to be the most visual, and the categories and tags are the best taxonomy-organisers for me.
“Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.”
— Frank Gelett Burgess
Added on 13 January 2019
Jack (LaLanne) used to say it’s okay to take a day off from working out. But on that day, you’re not allowed to eat. That’s the short way of saying you’re not really allowed to get unfocused. Take a vacation. Gather yourself. But know that the only reason you’re here on this planet is to follow your star and do what the Muse tells you. It’s amazing how a good day’s work will get you right back to feeling like yourself.”
Tribe of Mentors
Other ideas: Get the blog up
As Robert Frost wrote, a poem “begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never thought to begin with.”
http://www.hipsobriety.com/home/2014/10/23/howtohaveitall
http://www.hipsobriety.com/home/2016/3/3/how-to-start-a-recovery-blog
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
“Most people have more needs than wants. That’s why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants outstrip their needs.” — Rules of Civility
Listen — are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves. […]
The world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
From “Wild Geese”;
Dream Work (1986)