TODAY IS THE NATIONAL DAY of Listening, which, if you hadn’t heard — and I hadn’t until about five minutes ago, which saddens me because it’s such a neat idea and it’s in its third year — is dedicated to…
Category: Living
Each moment is different. Here are some of mine.
Pithyism #11/25/10
WITHOUT GRATITUDE, NONE OF THIS would matter.
Accented Enlightenment
SO MANY OF OUR VERBAL surroundings are invisible to us; we live like blind fish in a sea of words. Two experiments to make the background pop out: 1. Try shifting the accent on multiword phrases; e.g., “Vanity Fair” turns…
Whence Snark?
SERIOUSLY — CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL me the advantage or otherwise positive aspect to snark? Because something can’t have so infested every aspect of our culture without it being good for something. Does it help make us more patient? Wise?…
Pithyism #26
“I MEANT WELL” DOESN’T MEAN enough.
Arm’s Reach To The Stars
PERHAPS “ARM’S REACH TO AN asteroid” would be more accurate, but: For the first time ever, humanity has reached out with metal fingers and grabbed a hunk of asteroid to hold before its face. To put it less poetically, Japanese…
Pithyism #2a: A Daily 22-Year-Relationship Joy
“I WAS JUST ABOUT TO say the exact same thing!”
Pithyism #248
EVERYTHING IS EASIER SAID THAN done. So?
Pithyism #8
THERE’S A REASON CLASSIC SONGS are classic: they sound only like themselves, and whatever comes in their wake.
Reb Drunkard’s Wisdom
THE MAN WITH THE UNWASHED face was dressed in baggy street-person clothes which seemed to cushion the cold concrete beneath him. He was laying in front of the Carl’s Jr. restaurant in San Francisco’s Justin Hermann Plaza one cool night…
The Dilettante’s Question
IS IT ENOUGH TO KNOW, or must one also act?
Pithyism #80 Proof (or, Not A Bad Toast)
“MAY OUR LIVES BE NO sadder than necessary.”