Month: July 2022

Leg – 21st July 2022

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What makes this leg the one to be admired?
The smoother the skin the more similarly inspired
From a foot to a thigh
I’m always wondering why
For perfection, there are always two required

When struggling for time and inspiration, a limerick rescues.

What’s uncomfortable early becomes comfortable later. What’s comfortable early becomes uncomfortable later.

unknown, seen on a Quora post about Principle of Life

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to meet the nice immigration officer yesterday. He was very helpful and made the task as smooth as possible.

Selfie – 20th July 2022

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Another selfie makes us unhealthy
Pic after pic makes us sick
Mental disaster, depressing faster
A selfie smile, gone out of style

The revolutionary thinker must go beyond thought. He knows that almost all his best ideas come to him when thinking has stopped.

Alan Watts

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to eat Amy’s home-cooked food again. Better than any shop.

Hibernation – 19th July 2022

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Waking up two hundred years from now
This must really be a decent age
The past will just seem as a dream
Painting old words to the page

Turn back now those two hundred years
This is a decent age here right now
Without comparison we are blind
To our own experiences somehow

What I am is constantly thrust into my face while I’m trying to be better than I am.

Allie Brosh

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have had a few days away in Bangkok and to be back at home again. I like to travel but I love my home more.

Being Number One – 18th July 2022

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The most, the best, the biggest, the loudest
A notion of bigots most often the proudest
A penis envy countered with rockets
Sold to the bidder with deepest pockets
Remember your elders said ‘sharing is caring’
Where has that gone, as people despairing
To beat the Joneses in a pointless race
For a population long fallen from grace
Better yourself, don’t worry who’s on top
It’s a race to the bottom unable to stop
Share the resources with our kindred brothers
We are one in this life with others

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

No Kerosene – 17th July 2022

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Even without kerosene around
The house is on fire
Sparking cinders across the ground
The street is on fire
There’s nothing to do in this town
Because it’s all on fire
Now the world is burning down
Because it’s all on fire

The only real monsters might be the type of liar where there’s simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.

Hal, The Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Lighthouses – 16th July 2022

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Who’s gonna care for you?
Who will show the way?
Who will find the light
When the sun descends each day?
A child to be exploited
Manipulated and prostituted
Bad choices made with mirrors
Doors shut, firmly booted

Who’s gonna guide you?
Point to the right direction
A childhood to be wasted
Staring at its reflection
Dark fingers will be clawing
Promises made with gold
Sorrow is your struggle
Before you get too old

And then I find a book that I really love, and I talk about it for a while so I won’t seem like I hate everything. In other words, I hate everything!

Matthilda Bertstein Sycamore
Fatman report

A Step Closer To God – 15th July 2022

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Another winning goal, another scoring shot
A sharing of the soul, a stirring of the pot
Climbing the ranks, lightning to the rod
Living life with thanks, stepping up to God

The title was taken from a commentator’s proclamation during last weekend’s Sydney vs. Fremantle AFL game as Buddy Franklin scored an important goal after the halftime siren.

Why on earth do you need thanks or recognition for having done the right thing? It’s your job.

Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I was able to safely get on and off the roof to put down some waterproof tape. Let’s see if it works.

Together Again Today – 14th July 2022

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Both on our way
By the end of the day
– A feeling we’ll no longer miss
It’s been a while
Since sharing our smile
– And feeling so gentle a kiss
When we are not there
We know we still care
– Each other we’re thinking of
Wrapped in each other
Like arms of a mother
– The comforts of deepest love

The older you get, the smarter your parents get.

David Foster Wallace, paraphrasing

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the choices we have. On the 11th I wrote that Amy’s mum and dad would come and look after our cats but now Aing is back in Chiang Rai and her and Now will be able to do it for us.

The Week That Was – 23rd September 1979

The Test – 13th July 2022

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Take a different view
Step up a ladder high
Pretend to be a bird
Launching off to fly
Look down at this earth
Asking questions why
Draw a deep breath down inside
Before letting out a sigh
Unable to see beyond space
Unable to touch the sky
Now is the time to ask yourself
Exactly who am I?
Don’t be content with the answer
Or waiting for a reply
There’s no test impossible
The test is just to try

No story can contain you.

Ivan M. Granger

In The Woods – 12th July 2022

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The trees are listening, they hear your tears
Wept on your journies through a thousand fears
The fight never-ending, til its bitterness arrives
Waiting in the woods, a world no one survives

2nd Apr 2024 – Submitted to Word of the Day Challenge

The cosmic fate of humanity is somewhat mysterious, but we should act ‘as if’ what we do matters. This belief will then become a self-fulfilling prophecy, leading to a good life.

Jules Evans paraphrasing Roosevelt

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have little Kim come and sleep on me and next to me last night along with Cap sleeping next to my pillow. I’m not sure what brought on Kim’s sudden affection. She seems very happy.