by Think In The Morning | Jul 25, 2024 | More |
How to get through a political season that’s likely to be mean and nasty? Smile. Even a writer as serious as Borges knows this. Borges’ peculiar sense of humor led him to make remarks that, intended in jest, today would be considered politically incorrect. On...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 17, 2024 | More |
“[The Importance of Being Earnest] is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy…That we should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.” Oscar Wilde...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 13, 2024 | More |
As I write this I sit in fog drenched Mendocino while much of the country suffers under the horrid heat of a global heat wave. I indulge myself in quiet esthetic contemplation in the midst of an ugly political cat fight that divides the country. In a word I choose...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 7, 2024 | More |
Well, here we are in one hell of a pickle. America may have been here before but never quite as deep in the weeds as we are now. Just weeks away from the two major political conventions both parties are committed to unpopular octogenarians for the highest office in...
by Think In The Morning | Jun 22, 2024 | More |
You can’t keep standing on tiptoeor walk in leaps and bounds.You can’t shine by showing offor get ahead by pushing.Self-satisfied people do no good,self-promoters never grow up.Such stuff is to the Taoas garbage is to foodor a tumor to the body,hateful.The follower of...
by Think In The Morning | Jun 19, 2024 | More |
I think I can, I think I can. I think I can.I knew I could. I knew I could. I knew I could. The Little Engine That Could It’s better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all. Paraphrase of Alfred Lord Tennyson Fail...
