Wed 22 Dec 2021

Sunshine

Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day, sunshine
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Random quote of the day:

“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows.”

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

 

The random quote of the day will be on vacation until January 3, 2022. Happy holidays everyone!

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 21 Dec 2021

Listen

Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry
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Listen, and I will tell you a story
from the deepest reaches of sleep,
from the land of dark mists and
impossible hope, the aisles of cold stone
turning into light and darkness turning
into frogs. Listen, listen to them sing.

Let us reach down into swamps of nod,
deep into the mire, pulling up weeds
that turn to rods of gold, snakes that eat
their own tails, your neighbor clad in scales,
the postman trailing love letters from
fingertips clasping stones made of epics,
the plumber mucking out the drains with
a unicorn horn, shining pearl and diamond.

Let us revisit events of the day, transfigured;
assay our philosophy turned to poetry;
let us listen to the cool singing of sirens,
beneath waves of sleep which never crest;
let us dive deeper still to the primordial reaches
and pop out again, reborn, ready for the new day.

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Tue 21 Dec 2021

Longing

Posted by PJ under longing, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing—to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from… the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”

—C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 20 Dec 2021

Humanism

Posted by PJ under human rights, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing— anti-humanism.”

—Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed

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Fri 17 Dec 2021

Descent

Posted by PJ under ascending, descending, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The descent beckons
As the ascent beckoned.”

—William Carlos Williams, “The Descent”

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 14 Dec 2021

Notice

Posted by PJ under attention, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“People notice only what you tell them to notice, and then only if you remind them.”

—Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 10 Dec 2021

Literature

Posted by PJ under change, literature, politics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals. Literature, on the other hand, in its own field can achieve something and in the very long run can also have some practical effect. By now I have come to believe that important things are achieved only through very slow processes.”

—Italo Calvino, The Paris Review, Issue 124, Fall 1992

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Wed 8 Dec 2021

Stacey

Posted by PJ under failure, opportunity, quote of the day, the other
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Random quote of the day:

“I suddenly saw opportunity where I had never been brave enough to look before, and I found that failure wasn’t fatal, that otherness held an extraordinary power for clarity and invention.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change

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Tue 7 Dec 2021

Worldview

Posted by PJ under death, pov, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It seems that both religious and irreligious people see death and threats to their worldviews as of a piece: in other words, he who threatens my life and he who threatens my way of looking at the world are, on a psychological level, related. That is a dangerous way of thinking, but it seems we’re built for it—machines constructed to fight.”

—Steve Volk, Fringe-ology

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Mon 6 Dec 2021

Antelope

Posted by PJ under nature, projection, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Projecting our civilized feelings onto the antelope torn apart by lions, we see mere horror: nature red in tooth and claw. But animals aren’t victims, and don’t feel sorry for themselves. The lioness springs without malice; the torn antelope suffers and lets go; each plays its role in the sacred game.”

—Stephen Mitchell, Introduction to The Book of Job

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