Tag: gratitude journal

Robot Human Robot – 10th July 2022

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Busy turning humans into robots
Learning to love the monotony
Building robots to resemble humans
Forming a ridiculous dichotomy

It has always been hard for me to understand myself, to know why I work and love and live. Yet it is fortunate that such matters find a way of caring for themselves.

Rockwell Kent

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for all the workers that helped clear the streams a few years ago so that it is not so easy to flood the land around us during the rainy season. I wonder where they all are now.

Jones In Space – 8th July 2022

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It’s gonna take sometime
To reinvent myself
It’s a long way
To become somebody else
Cowboys to astronauts
Reaching past the skies
A never-ending journey
Of whats, wheres and whys

There’s probably something wrong with you if you never doubt yourself.

Ryan Holiday

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for feeling good. I felt bad for too many days and it was getting me down.

P.V.S. – 7th July 2022

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It’s a good morning with mists descending
A light rain forms teardrops on the greenest leaves
A darkened dampness permeates the heart and mind
But we’re safe inside, taking it all in
It’s a lazy day of literature and brandies
Hours spent staring at crackling fires
A comforting smell of libraried shelves
Over shadows the comings and goings of the day

8th May 2024 – Submitted to Writer’s Workshop Prompts – literature

Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.

Robert Greene

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I could take time off school (and hopefully still get paid) for the last nine working days when I’ve had Covid. I feel like I have finally come out of the other side and have some energy back.

The Decline of Western Civilisation Pt II – 26th June 2022

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It’s difficult to care about the west
Always declaring itself as best
Fighting its war against the beast
Maintaining control across the east
Patience one day will gain reward
No longer counting whose goals were scored
A better way will come to be
A time that most of us wish to see

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

from Welcome to Night Vale

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to get some gardening advice for Bruno when he came to visit today.

The Week That Was – 16th September 1979

Language Diabolic – 24th June 2022

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Bring it together – the idea and the word
And stand behind the words said and heard

Smash it apart – the words and the real
So that fantasy is all that’s left to feel

20th Mar 2024 – Submitted to RDP Tuesday – Fantasy

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Abraham Lincoln

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have a runaround with some of my students yesterday. We were all happy to play.

Teacher’s Day – 23rd June 2022

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Oh, the pretty girls must perform
The majority sweat to conform
Candles lit and incense burned
Bless today for what was learned

Rigid rows and rigid rules
Sets the tone within the schools
Passive acceptance, the cultural norm
Here’s Pavlov’s children to perform

31st Oct 2024 – Shared with Ragtag Daily Prompt – rigid

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

Bern Williams

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to find the Yousician offer to upgrade to play loads more songs cheaper than my current subscription – how good is that!?

The Week That Was – 9th September 1979

The Devil’s Despair – 22nd June 2022

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Scrabbling around in the emptiness
Finding only scraps of dust and hair
Searching for long-buried treasure
To sate the devil’s despair
Concentrating all the kindness
Praying for a new light to shine
Longing for a fuller measure
To shiver on down my spine

As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not ‘die’ in the winter but quietly prepare for another season.

James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that there were banana cupcakes left at work yesterday so that I could fill up as I knew I would get home late.

The Week That Was – 2nd September 1979

The Rock Of Truth – 21st June 2022

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Standing on the bank of the river
Sympathies for those floating by
Your tears will cleanse your heart
You cannot comprehend my cry

I am the truth as rock
Stood for a million years
Listening to your sad songs
Whispered between your tears

Empty is your heart and hand
A touch so inviting and smooth
Your house without mirrors
To view your soul to soothe

Long you looked in ridicule
Shackled to the ebb and flow
Grabbing onto sparkling gold
And screaming to never let go

Imagery inspired by a Khalil Gibran short story

15th Jun 2024 – Submitted to RagTag Daily Prompt

Our diversity is not a reason to hate each other. Quite the opposite, we must admire and respect it.

found at Khimushin Alexander, original unknown

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that my brain was keeping me happy yesterday. It was a fun day at school with no teaching and lots of kids always wanting to talk with me.

Duk Dik – 20th June 2022

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Always active, nervous twitching
Under the skin, blood is itching
Actions precede thought
Which evaporate to nought
Leaving all around you bitching

11th Sept 2023 – In Thai ‘duk dik’ means constantly moving around. This phrase can be used for my students in most of my classes.

The highs and lows I have known have turned me inward to the point where I’ll never feel anything close to normal. I don’t feel isolated, I don’t want in… There’s no confession to make, there’s no truth burning to come ripping out of me… I will always make relationships with people an approximation of a relationship. I think that’s better. I think things are more beautiful when you’re on the outside.

Henry Rollins

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to find the books I want to read from Dasa Books in Bangkok or even able to order from overseas using Amazon.

The Observational – 18th June 2022

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When there’s nothing to say, don’t say a word
Even in silence, a meaning may be heard
Beaks may be flapping, yet nothing said
Silence all the yapping, shut up instead
A life without drama is much better observed

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

Charles Bukowski

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to sleep through my alarm this morning. Out for the count and I think I feel better for it.