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Tue 30 Nov 2021

Diary

Posted by PJ under journals, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Writing for a hostile world discouraged me. Writing for the diary gave me the illusion of a warm ambiance I needed to flower in.”

—Anaïs Nin

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 29 Nov 2021

Sorrow

Posted by PJ under food, grief, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”

—Jessmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Tue 23 Nov 2021

Uncertainty

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the universe, uncertainty
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s cramped and irrational to say that there is no God. And premature. Because we are all pathetically ignorant of the universe.”

—Martin Amis, quoted in Matt Labash, “It’s OK to Say ‘I Don’t Know,’” Washington Examiner, March 14, 2018

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Mon 22 Nov 2021

Respect

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, religion, respect
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Random quote of the day:

“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

—H. L. Mencken, Minority Report

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Thu 18 Nov 2021

The River Beneath the River

Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry
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The river beneath the river
pushes through the desert
where the old woman gathers bones.
Bones, bleached white, cluster
at her feet, skulls on the banks
roll onto the warm sand beach
where the oracle sits, knitting.
Stitch by stitch, each to each, one by one,
she urges the bones back together,
singing songs of reconsecration,
singing soul-songs of life renewing.
Done, she flings them back into the flow
to float upon the river beneath the river,
to bob onto a new, green shore,
to stand upon their feet, enfleshed and flexing,
to walk the earth once more.

This is my soul-song, my reconsecration.
These are my bones, floating along.
This is my fur flushing across my skin.
This is life returning to my soul.
These are my legs carrying me onward
into the new land, the green land, bound
for I know not where.

—PJ Thompson

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Thu 18 Nov 2021

Oppression

Posted by PJ under oppression, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.”

―Marian Anderson, quoted by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

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Wed 17 Nov 2021

Conquerors

Posted by PJ under imperialism, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The moral for conquerors of empires is that if they substitute savagery for civilization they are doomed.”

—George Bernard Shaw, Geneva

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Mon 15 Nov 2021

Reason

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reason
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Random quote of the day:

“I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight nor the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.”

—Brian L. Weiss, M.D., Many Lives, Many Masters

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Fri 12 Nov 2021

Fey

Posted by PJ under fairies, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“People seem to forget that the fey are ultimately not of this world. And also, more people forget that we and our survival are actually inconsequential to most things that aren’t us.”

—Morgan Daimler, Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk