Category Archives: Urban

16-Rela

Fireplug

Whom do we credit for this welcoming sidewalk? Who is the architect of this street-wise aesthetic?

10-Chin

Patterns

When confronting an obstacle, there’s no reason to run. Start with a better world at the center, overcome the inevitable barriers, then expand to encompass more territory. Impediments need not hinder growth.

09-Dell

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Overpass

He accepted another pint and took a pull at it. “Of course, I had my own personal alchemist too.”

“You what?”

He was getting silly and he knew it. Exuberance and Hall and Woodhouse best bitter was a mixture to be wary of, but one of the first effects it had is to stop you being wary of things, and the point at which Arthur should have stopped and explained no more was the point at which he started instead to get inventive.

“Oh yes,” he insisted with a happy glazed smile. “It’s why I’ve lost so much weight.”

“What?” said his audience.

“Oh yes,” he said again. “The Californians have rediscovered alchemy. Oh yes.”

He smiled again.

Chapter 9 – SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH by Douglas Adams (1999)

How do people suppress things? Generally, alcohol suppresses fear, nicotine suppresses anger and frustration, marijuana suppresses sadness, and caffeine suppresses the long-lasting, energy-sapping results of other forms of suppression.

Rebirthing by Leonard & Laut (1983)

19-Rack

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Solitude

“Leaden paralysis” is a psychiatric term.

If your thought patterns & attitudes, your very sense of self, could be altered by medication, there seems little room in the equation for the soul.

The Christian existentialist conclusion is that the soul is that which chooses.

Malfunctioning receptors may sap or boost your energy. Chemical fluctuations may create a racket in your head. But you can choose your words & actions.

Choose to reject the Voice of Doom.

MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT MY THOUGHTS ~Kathleen Founds, The Sun Magazine, February 2022