Thu 12 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under cats, proverb, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.â€
—Russian proverb
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Tue 10 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, sexism, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.â€
—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Mon 9 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under daimons and demons, quote of the day, reality, tricksters
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Random quote of the day:
“As soon as we make a definite assertion about the nature of reality, reality itself—soul, imagination, the unconscious and (the best model of all) Mercurius—immediately constellates its opposite. Whenever we think we have captured reality, and pinned the daimon down, he has in fact already slipped away; we are left with an empty mask.â€
—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire
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Fri 6 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, thought
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Random quote of the day:
“A thought written down is dead. It was alive. It lives no longer. It was a flower. Writing it down has made it artificial, that is to say, immutable.â€
—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)
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Thu 5 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under loneliness, quote of the day, stories
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Random quote of the day:
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel—’Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’â€
—John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words,†The Exonian, 1930
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Wed 4 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under books, children, imagination, knowledge, quote of the day, reality, truth
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Random quote of the day:
“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. All too often, that’s more than Mummy and Daddy know; for, in denying their childhood, the adults have denied half their knowledge, and are left with the sad, sterile little fact: ‘Unicorns aren’t real.’â€
—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Language of the Night
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Tue 3 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under books, ennui, illness, metaphors, novels, reading, seasonal affective disorder, writing
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Currently reading:
(Subtitle: The life and mysterious death of Scottish churchman and scholar Robert Kirk and his influential treatise on fairy folklore.)
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I have two novels that are fighting it out for my attention, one about goddesses and one about Faery with a substantial appearance by the Rev. Robert Kirk of The Secret Commonwealth fame who has been after me for years to tell a version of his story. They have been team tagging me for months, first one then the other.
But both novels are wrapped in a cloud of ennui and exhaustion that is summer seasonal affective disorder, with a side of pandemic miasma. My health hasn’t been great the last few months, most especially the last two weeks, so that is adding to the funk. Nothing serious, I don’t think, but chronic. Which means that any progress I make on these two novels is sporadic at best.
I am so not alone in this. I know many creators who are facing similar struggles, but I do feel that I’ve slipped my mooring and am drifting in circles, becalmed in a Sargasso Sea.
I get occasional signs from the universe that it isn’t done with me yet, and the Sargasso, beneath its floating mat of seaweed, is a fertile region of biodiversity for many species. But I fear mine will  wonder if I have another novel in me? And if I do, is it only one? Will I be able to finish both of these projects? I don’t know the answer to that.
All I can do is to keep chipping away at the marble, hoping that the form within will eventually reveal itself and come to life: a real flesh and blood woman. Or man. I have no preferences. Only a forlorn hope. And two metaphors, neither of which I can choose between.
Tue 3 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under blessings, love, meaning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.â€
―Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
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Mon 2 Aug 2021
Posted by PJ under mirror, quote of the day, responsibility
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Random quote of the day:
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind glass. My face and the faces of other travelers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.â€
—Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency
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