“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
Crazy colonialists came
Before they left again
Revoked rights remain
Creating wars the same
Arbitrary lines drawn
To ancient enemies sworn
Peoples, ripped and torn
Nations divide in scorn
‘Freedom’ is nothing more than the leash on which we allow the masses to run. They do not want to be free.
Pat Mills (?), Third World War, Crisis Magazine
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful that Amy spent a day preparing meals for me to freeze and eat later.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
Oscar Wilde
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to live near enough to shops that cover about 90% of my day-to-day needs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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