Mon 8 Dec 2014
Signs I thought I saw
Posted by PJ under misreading, signs
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MAID* REMOVAL & REHABILITATION
I guess that’s for domestic help that just won’t stop cleaning.
*Mold
Mirrored from Better Than Dead.
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Mon 8 Dec 2014
The Other
Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
—Iris Murdoch, “The Sublime and the Good,†Chicago Review, Vol. 13, Iss. 3, Autumn 1959
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 5 Dec 2014
Wool gathering
Posted by PJ under imagination, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:Â
“It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
—Mark Twain, The American Claimant
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 4 Dec 2014
I say it’s broccoli
Posted by PJ under food, humor, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.”
—E. B. White, The New Yorker, December 8, 1928
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 3 Dec 2014
Ah! bright wings*
Posted by PJ under gods, nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:Â
“Nothing could persuade me that ‘in the image of God’ applied only to man. In fact it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers, and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than men with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism…”
—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (tr. Clara and Richard Winston)
* http://www.bartleby.com/122/7.html
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 2 Dec 2014
Slow cooking
Posted by PJ under internet, quote of the day, reading
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Random quote of the day:
“The real issue with the internet may be that it erodes, slowly, one’s sense of self, one’s capacity for the kind of pleasure in isolation that reading has, since printed books became common, been standard.”
—Henry Hitchings, quoted in The Guardian, 15 July 2010, “The Art of Slow Readingâ€
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 1 Dec 2014
Like nothing else
Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
—Charles Bukowski, “Writing,†New Poems Book Three
(Apparently, Mr. Bukowski did more than one poem named “Writing.” He’s Charles Bukowski. He can do that if he wants to.)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
