“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
In a carefully worded statement
Facts were twisted and obscured
The lines crossed were blurred
And both sides eventually demurred
One step forward, two steps back
Holding hands, stepping into a hole
A status quo must be maintained
Until someone scores an own goal
You are a human being, not a human doing.
Ryan Holiday
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful that our little car is healthy enough to get us to Chiang Mai and back on a quick turnaround trip. Good health to you, Almy.
You’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour.
J.D. Salinger
A world of wonderland made of many pleasures
A paradise at fingertips, packed with all the treasures
The poverty of the mind, empty of all previous worries
All are sleeping soundly as death towards us hurries
To die at sixty or at eighty is harder than at ten or at thirty. Habituation to life, there’s the rub. For life is a vice – the greatest one of all. Which explains why we have so much difficulty ridding ourselves of it.
Emil Cioran
Too much, and thinking is affected
The past is a time still being perfected
Forever with us as a problem somehow
Living in the past instead of the now
Humanity’s state of mind has been distorted by its own bloody history.
Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to be able to enjoy falling asleep to weird interesting music. I love that feeling and sometimes reminds me of listening to John Peel as a teenager or jazz on the radio in the early hours.
Your mindless, meaningless sympathy
Does nothing for those in need
A charitable chunk of donations
Was never seen to stop the bleed
Thoughts and prayers, those empty words
Won’t disturb your life serene
Never stopped to consider your action
Won’t make your dirty hands clean
For every heartstring, there’s a scam
So that we may never be as one
The status quo has removed benevolence
And so nothing ever gets done
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to go to Phayao after school yesterday with a great dinner by the lake as the sun was setting. It was very relaxing.
Struggling flowers reaching up high
Searching for light in the grey sky
Meekly accepting and no question why
Quiet as a mouse skittering away
Always saying something yet nothing to say
Hard to get and refusing to play
A uniform mask and a poker face
Friendless in this friendly place
Self-excluded from any competitive race
One day to shine, to rise up high
Their blinding light will pierce the sky
Leaving everyone else to wonder why
A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.
Nizar Qabbani
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for the little plants Bruno gave me to see if I can use them to grow a border along our path.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, or dragging out some false, shallow degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Oscar Wilde
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to have a nice early dinner of special food at Amy’s parents, joined by Takky, Nut and Bruno. It was a pleasant evening with lots of chat.
Everyday
Are you moving close to your duty
Or moving away?
Knowing
What you value and what you’re doing
Is growing
Moored
To firmament and remaining steady
For your reward
Never argue with someone whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf.
Emilia Clarke
Whether as messiah, or as refugee, I can always use what resources I have to try and live a happy life.
Luo Ji, The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
9th May 2024 – Submitted to Word of the Day Challenge – Garbage
26th Sep 2024 – Submitted to Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Supersize
We need each other to become ourselves.
Abraham Kaplan
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for our crazy passionfruit plants that are providing me with so much fruit to enjoy. Then there’s the crazy pumpkin that also may actually give us food that doesn’t get eaten by insects this year.
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