Fri 27 May 2022
Posted by PJ under growing up, illusion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“I am growing up…I am losing my illusions, perhaps to acquire new ones.”
—Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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Wed 25 May 2022
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the universe
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Random quote of the day:
“I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand; and the prospect hence is infinite.”
—Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852
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Tue 24 May 2022
Posted by PJ under community, friends, outsider, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river, make me guess the names of birds, or challenge me to count the silvery fish in a school, there was nothing for me to do. Without somebody to be somebody to, it was as though I wasn’t somebody myself.”
―Michael Dorris, Sees Behind Trees
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Mon 23 May 2022
Posted by PJ under creativity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“The creative spirit creates with whatever materials are present. With food, with children, with building blocks, with speech, with thoughts, with pigment, with an umbrella, or a wineglass, or a torch.”
—M. C. Richards, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
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Fri 20 May 2022
Posted by PJ under death, gods, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Death is the only God who loves not gifts and cares not for sacrifices or libation, who has no altars and receives no hymns.”
—Aeschylus, Niobe
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Wed 18 May 2022
Posted by PJ under grief, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, Instagram, June 6, 2018
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Tue 17 May 2022
Posted by PJ under laughter, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“The ability to laugh comes out of moral strength and the courage to face the sublime muddle of human affairs; and those who can laugh are those who have faith enough to go on.”
—Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun
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Mon 16 May 2022
Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry
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Somebody knows who that is—
or they did, once,
and maybe they told their kids,
or maybe they did not,
before they themselves became
just another old photograph
of strangers.
Faint pencil markings on the back
sometimes give cryptic clues:
“Mother at the lake.”
But whose mother, which lake?
“Baby Jean, 4 months old”—
and you realize if Baby Jean
is still alive she’d be very old.
Ephemera,
handled with such confidence,
believing someone will always know
what and who and where.
Inconceivable that someday
they will all be gone
and we will, too,
that even these subtle clues
are ephemera, meaningful
to a few and only for a time
before time and the people it holds
slip into the past
and are gone.
—PJ Thompson
May 16, 2022
Mon 16 May 2022
Posted by PJ under lies, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:
“There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.”
—Cornell West, Twitter, June 17, 2011
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Fri 13 May 2022
Posted by PJ under crone, initiation, magical beings, mysteries, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:
“The truth behind apparitions is, I fear, less like a problem to be solved than an initiation into a mystery; less like an investigation than a quest on which we must not be above taking tips from helpful old crones or talking animals in order to wrest the world transforming treasure from the dragon’s cave. We may even have to abandon our idea of truth altogether if we are to find it.”
—Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality
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