A couple of super nice trips this month. Climbed Mount Humphrey's with Vandy, and went to Portland to see Eli and Amber (and Amos and Rich). I don't need to tell you how much I love my boy Eli. How much I miss him. In October Cathy and I are scheduled to do a week in Alpine at a new cabin. I look forward to telling you about it later.
Here's what I got this time:
As I slide closer to the lowest common denominator
I find myself becoming part of the problem.
Pick the seasonal fruit
don't wait another moment
any thread, pick it up and weave
a lover's tale
with all your heart.
all reality is virtual
ice cream
when it's time to scream.
happiness is self inflicted.
i often hide my selfishness behind my unhappiness.
Auditor: A person who makes their living talking about you you do for a living. A good one can keep you from doing it too.
I've come to the conclusion
even though quite a few of us don't act like it,
and you know who you are
we're all in this together.
Portland: The town that cards.
If I hear tomorrow, just one more time!
and now from some real people:
art is an obligation. Terance McKenna
- Get enough food to eat, and eat it.
- Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, sleep there.
- Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.
The lady whines, then dines; is slapped and killed;
Yet it's her killer's blood that has been spilled.
A Mosquito by Brad Leithauser
There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell.
If we cannot see how what we are doing or not doing is contributing to things being the way that they are, then logically we have no basis a all, zero leverage, for changing the way things are -- except from the outside, by persuasion or force. Adam Kahane.
that's it for this time. All my best, your bobJuan.
I think that the idea of hiding selfishness behind unhappiness is brilliant and wise. I thought of this as I was trying to deal with issues the kids brought into my live - much of my unhappiness, in the face of events that were very bad for Brit - had to do with the impact on ME. I had read this line a while ago in an email from you and thought of it a lot as I was watching myself deal with those issues. I'm pretty big on selfish.
ReplyDeletecorrection: sorry, I'm somewhat OCD after the fact:
ReplyDeleteAuditor: A person who makes their living talking about WHAT you do for a living. A good one can keep you from doing it too.
I forgot to mention.
ReplyDeleteIn September I received and did not forward 51 eMails. Not a bad month. bobJuan.