Domestic
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
Aubrey Menen
22-JUN
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Category Archives: Comic
12-JUN
Consternation
Fear is a dark room where negatives get developed.
05-JUN
Contemplation
“Stay back there now!” he croaked. “Just keep your distance, sport. I’ve got nothing you’re after – unless it’s the cheese, and you can have that. If it’s meat you want, I’m nothing but gristle, but I’ll fight to keep it. Back now! back!”
“I’m not a sport, good simpleton,” said Brother Francis, using the polite address. He tossed back his hood to show his monastic haircut and held up his rosary beads. “Do you understand these?”
After a brief scrutiny, the pilgrim straightened. “Oh – one of them.” He leaned on his staff and scowled.
– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
02-JUN
Alienation
When I speak, my lips & tongue form the words that are on my mind. These ARE my thoughts, yet they are NOT my thoughts.
I’ll try to turn over a new leaf, a blank page, and start over.
30-MAY
Surprise
Playing with Humor: When sobering events threaten to put you into a dour mood, don’t let your guard down; try to be funny (TF).
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
Mark Weiser
10-MAY
06-MAY
Tree Trunk
18-Rules to Live By
- Question every answer.
- Own all outcomes, good & bad.
- Be curious about what’s not right.
- Eschew comfort, but don’t give up seeking pleasure.
- Read books; only finish reading the good ones.
- Write the story of your life.
- Fix what you break; build what we need.
- Take care of yourself in order to take care of others.
- Surround yourself, on occasion, with pure silence.
- Calibrate the truth to tell.
- Tolerate imperfection.
- Look ahead, but act today.
- Start small and compound interest consistently.
- Quit bad moods; always remember the good times.
- Beat a day of distraction with one hour of intense effort.
- Stop what you’re doing and rest, then pace yourself.
- Explore your dreams at night.
- Direct your focus with a conditioning ritual:
- Breathe
- Gesture
- Visualize
14-APR
Mischievous
UPDATE 2026: What’s happening is the weather. Rain this morning, sunshine later today. It’s all good.
UPDATE 2025: “Don’t Die!” is something Voldemort would espouse. “Stay Alive!” is closer to the wizard, Harry Potter”.
UPDATE 2024: Beliefs: 1. Women have a choice 2. No doubt there is a Highest power 3. Science seeks the Truth 4. Sex, like art, is what you make it 5. All good people are welcome to be a great country, yet scoundrels slide. It’s best to have a bias toward goodness unless proven otherwise.
UPDATE 2023: While the snail & snake proved to be problematic, and the mollusk impossible, at least I think I’m over Covid-19. Got one new YOGA pose out of all the suffering. It’s called Sleeping Bear; a good body position for taking the next breath while trying to sleep in the middle of the night.
From 2022: What is on his mind?
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, having nothing to do: once she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures in it. “What is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?” ~Lewis Carroll