This book has run out of space
This pad has no more lines
Time to start a new one
For all my stupid rhymes
We are a society that excels in elite unaccountability.
Peter Maass
Stupid Rhymes – 23rd April 2022
Author: shaun tenzenmen
Australasian DIY music specialist and practising poet, amongst other things
Foundation – 22nd April 2022
When you’re talking to yourself, who’s listening? Who’s talking?
You can never see yourself, not with your own eyes
Who you are is not for you to say but that is what you must be
Do the job and do it well is the foundation you must realise
Maybe we don’t want to talk about it. Perhaps we believe that unexamind luck isn’t quite as fragile.
Seth Godin
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful that I can catch up on sleep if I need to. Last night was a delicious long 11 hours.
Time’s Up – 21st April 2022
Hello friend, I’m just passing through
But I’m grateful that I got to know you
Thick as thieves, inseparable brothers
One and the same in the eyes of others
So friend, we never got to say farewell
Something happened, neither of us could tell
We didn’t mean to but life pulls in different ways
Memories remain the only thing that stays
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
F.D. Roosevelt
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for this holiday I’m on – I’m loving it. The fact that I’m OK with holidays or work makes everything I do interesting and I know I’m adaptable to enjoy any situation.
Out Of Reach – 20th April 2022
These people left holes all over the world
Because they didn’t follow their heart
Saw a life far beyond their reach
So they never even bothered to start
…mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to Nut and Brunotoday, for supplying me with more bagels and a small tree for the garden plus some ideas for other plants too.
Mass Scale Perception Management Operation – 19th April 2022
You are secretly perfect
But you will never know
The world is perfect too
Purposely hidden from view
The way of the world
Must be the way you go
Because all beliefs are false
The self is an illusion
Our eternities at heart
From the end to the start
Every no is made from yes
Despite our delusion
Learning how to learn is the most important skill to acquire.
Robert Greene
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to Matt and Mix and their family for cooking lunch yesterday when I went to visit. They made Sukothai Pad Thai. Followed by delicious home-grown jackfruit.
The Curse – 18th April 2022
Surviving in a world with nostalgia
A regret of living in the now
Is there an old way of living
That people have forgotten somehow?
But it’s a useless battle to fight
To smell the glories of the past
The foibles of a new generation
Ensure it will never last
The curse of the old man
Constantly shaking fists at the skies
They forget their own youth
When they had the time of their lives
For years, maybe even today, sometimes I think ‘What exactly am I going to do with my life? What is my career going to be? I’m only 80 for God’s sake!’
Anne Tyler
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful that the water pumps are still working after stopping last night when I forgot to turn off the hose! Getting forgetful in my old age.
Tossed To The Winds – 17th April 2022
Who did I think I was before I came here?
Here is now and nowhere has been and gone
From here to there, nowhere and anywhere
Everywhere is sure to come
Reinvented atoms, tossed back to the winds
What did it mean to take this form?
What are you doing? What did you do?
What did it mean to be born?
The young have a great advantage in that they are ignorant.
Sydney Brenner
Happy Weeds – 16th April 2022
In this garden of life
I’m a simple weed, underachieving
Yet I can grow anywhere
And I’ll never stop believing
Happily, I join in chorus
As fellow weeds, we will survive
Take whatever is thrown at us
We’re just glad to be alive
I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decreptitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.
Jubal, Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to be able to read all the great stories that smart people took the trouble to write, whether it’s comics or books.
A Problem To Want – 15th April 2022
Kids, you are so lucky to be bored
I wish for a return to those days too
But someone here has to wash the dishes
And do all the things that I have to do
I suppose these things could be neglected
But who will feed the cat
In fact, I have to get myself fed
And who’s gonna take care of that?
Enjoy these times of twiddling thumbs
Pulling pleasures from thin air
Get to work at being bored again
One day soon, you’ll want back there
25th Aug 2024 – Submitted to Ragtag Daily Prompt – want
You know what, your problem isn’t the outside world. Your problem is the story you’re telling youself about the outside world. And that story is a choice. If you’re not happy with the story, tell yourself another story. That simple.
Seth Godin
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to be surrounded by good things, to have opportunities and choices. And to choose to do nothing and just be relaxed.
Unalive – 14th April 2022
Gaming the alcohol rhythm
A war, of words, as a war of words
Bullies in a cyber shop
Recycling strategies and isolation
Right-click delete
Sick fight compete
New smiling gangs of rhyming slangs
Shouting at the four enclosed walls
Declaring victory and the final absurd
Every genuine educator is a prisoner of hope.The road to all liberation through self knowing is a path of despair but all roads have their empty horizons and infinite beyonds. We educators are travelers on that path, struggling to transform what lies beyond.
Seth Vannatta
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