Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Life’s Pleasant Surprises
These are random thoughts, silly meaningless phrases, ideas, definitions, quotes, etc. Does it matter where they come from? I cite sources when I can. The soul, whatever that is, seems to need these interstices, room to stretch, degrees of freedom, mental doodles...
Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] We are living in a culture that insists on lying as its delivery of how we are living,” she said then. “It insists on telling us information about which we are left wondering whether it is true or not … Fiction and...
Short Fiction – Cado Maestro Tiene Su Librito (Every Teacher Has His Little Book)
While Augustine was working on his book On the Trinity, he was walking by the seaside one day, meditating on the difficult problem of how God could be three Persons at once. He came upon a little child. The child had dug a little hole in the sand, and with a small...
Think in the Morning Oaxaca Journal
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Oaxaca is one of the most beautiful places on earth in our opinion. We have visited every year for the past twelve years. Because we write so much about Oaxaca, we are often asked how to travel there, what to do,...
Short Fiction – Twenty Dollar Bill
Charles decided to change his life. This is not an uncommon thing after a divorce. If his wife could leave him and run off to Argentina with her lesbian friend, he could ... what? Do something. Yes, do something and he would.The list of complaints was legion. She...
Pop Goes the Weasel
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Disclosure: I have no particular insight into the financial markets. In this I am in good company (just read the financial press for a battery of conflicting reports). Just a couple of weeks ago the famous bond...
Do We Live In An Artificial World
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information]I’m not a Christian at least in any formal way but I do read the Bible. In this I agree with Christopher Hitchens (RIP)."A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin...
Short Fiction – Desipio: Last Part
This is the End of a two part story. For the first part go HERE Desipio continued ..“Have you seen how he throws the salt over his shoulder after he spills it?” asks Rosa.Carmelita continues looking at the garden while she answers.“He goes back to that garden over...
Short Fiction – Desipio: First Part
“Desipio, get out of the garden. Don’t pee on the flowers.”Desipio looks down in a forlorn stare. His unkempt but abundant hair stands up like whipped and caramelized egg whites. He has the urge to pee but he can’t and the pain is excruciating when he...
Alien
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Long, long ago there were people who listened to radio shows. This was before television created the way for cellphones and when the earth was still inhabitable. Even before this time, before the radio was in...
Poem By Think in the Morning: Micpapalotl
In remembrance of Francisco Toledo [REVISED] Micpapalotl (The Black Witch Moth) In Oaxaca the rains end lateIn the Fall and thoughts turnTo life and death and fateAnd to what we might learn About death from the deadWhen they come to visitAs it is often saidThey do. ...
The Lowly Frog
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] For a long time the frogs went on talking, “It’s eerie here! It’s eerie here!” and the bullfrog, after a meditative silence, “I know! I know!” Then the nervous frog again, “It’s eerie here—it’s eerie.” The...