ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT YOU’RE not (insert your favorite author here), you can begin to make your own good things.
Category: Living
Each moment is different. Here are some of mine.
Singularity, The; Downside, Cultural
I DON’T LIKE THAT specific nouns are being co-opted for brand naming. Twenty years from now, some teenager watching Star Trek: The Next Generation will say, “Hyuk! Data doesn’t look like a smartphone!”
Pithyism #65
MATURITY IS ALSO REALIZING THAT life is less about doing stuff than it is about the stuff you do; less about filling, and more about what it’s filled with.
Two Hands Clapping
ONE OF ANN‘S & MY favorite gestures is to gently upfling the hands at about shoulder height and exclaim, “How did they do that?” This phrase generally applies to dancers, actors, writers, musicians, singers, comedians, directors and others whose command…
A Sack Of Cashews
JINGLE. SLAM. 1978. THREE A.M. 7-Eleven. Very hungry. Looking for the little heat-lamp-warmed nut-variety display thing. Cashews are definitely NEEDED. NEEDED NOW.
Nathanson Creek Wind Symphony
THE OLD OAK TREE SWAYS like a punch-drunk in the wind. Please don’t crush our house.
What I Hope God Wants
SEEMS TO ME THAT MORE accuracy would be obtained from statements beginning “God does/wants/says” by prefacing them with “I hope.” Because seriously — that’s as far as you’re going to get with figuring out God. (If nothing else, it rather…
Pithyism #70
O! THAT WE COULD LEARN by advice that which can only be learned through experience.
Pithyism #12
YOU’RE BETTER OFF THAN MOST if your dinner worries concern what, rather than whether, to eat.
“What A Time We Might Have Had”
THE TITLE IS TAKEN FROM a line in Mark Twain’s Roughing It, and it always comes to mind when I hear someone (or myself) voice a semiserious regret. I don’t carry many of these — not out of “holiness;” it…
Pithyism #24
A GOOD DAY IS ONE in which the artist heaves a stone and the ripples wash up smiles and murmurs. (Or, put another way, “Blessed be the One who makes the makers.” I don’t know that one needs to “believe”…
Introductions
SOMETHING HOLY/TENDER/FRAGILE/GIDDY THERE IS ABOUT someone introducing a member of one world to a member of another: as, one’s relatives to one’s colleagues, one’s colleagues to one’s friends, one’s friends to one’s relatives. It’s more than just a person-to-person connection.…