“Understanding the universe is your responsibility because the only understanding of it that’ll be useful to you is your own.”
– Terence McKenna (Nov 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000)
getting prepared for joy
Willa didn’t need Mapquest to find miracles
Do Be Do Be Do
Adding these to Kurt Vonnegut’s:
“Do Wah Diddy” – Manfred Mann
“Ooby Dooby” – Roy Orbison
A thought from Aldous on World Kindness Day (Nov 13)
A thought from Aldous on World Kindness Day:
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.”
Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
#WorldKindnessDay
John Gay vintage bromide print 1950s © National Portrait Gallery, London
We all need a dream…
“We all need a dream to nourish us and give life meaning.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
After all the blogs I did on these favorites of mine…
they still didn’t invite me to this bash 🙂
Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Keith Richards, and Chuck Berry
I wonder if the conversation was the music equivalent of Picasso’s quote:
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
I drifted
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
– Mae West (1893-1980)
Making some apple pie on Carl Sagan’s birthday
Making some apple pie on Carl Sagan’s birthday
(it’s actually frozen) 🙂
“If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
– Carl Sagan (Nov 9, 1934 – Dec 20, 1996)
What happened on election day:
What happened on election day:
Richie Havens’ LP came to mind, “Mixed Bag”
Still a great divide…but I appreciate the gains.
“My toast is cold and my orange juice is hot.”
“That’s the Bag I’m In”
– Richie Havens
