Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William BlakeBehind the Locked Door
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The Daily Special
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information) By age 35 I expected to be President, very famous or at least very, very rich. Instead, by 35 I had three sons, a beautiful wife, and a restaurant business where I made great friends. I had...
Poems – 11
This is the eleventh poetry page posted on Think in the Morning. We choose poems we like based only on our own tastes. Each poem is paired with an original piece of napkin art produced at the Sea Gull Cellar Bar in Mendocino, CA from 1977 - 1985. We identify...
Guest Post: The Diamond’s Sutra by Mitchell Zucker
Go to sleep. First tell me the story about how the world ended. All right; get under the covers. One day, the Launch Control Officer at an intercontinental ballistic missile base had a dinner date and had just finished polishing his boots and was about to...
Welcome to the American Kleptocracy
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Kleptocracy: a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. David Glasgow Farragut...
Short Fiction: Horace Cucumber: A Cautionary Story For Parents With Unruly Children
Though you hurry away, it’s a brief delay: three scattered handfuls of earth will free you. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) * Horace Cucumber rolled down the steep garden path of John Winthrop’s hillside garden ripping off pieces of his green...
The Greatest Heist in History
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] Better views of some of the charts and some of the analysis used in this post can be found HERE: Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts America can be divided into five income classes: the...
Oyster Stuffing
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information} H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G Thanksgiving comes and goes but oyster stuffing for the turkey has been a constant in my life since I first read M.F.K. Fisher’s Consider the...
A Few Things I Learned Running A Restaurant
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] … truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing....
Do We Really Need This Tax Cut? Just Askin’
[Click on Blue links for sources more information] NOTE: Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his wife celebrate the first batch of dollar bills with his signature in the Feature Picture above. Mnuchin, who supports the current tax cut, made millions...
Shy Red
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information] In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach,...
Trompudo’s Revolution
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information] Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach Progress is not a straight line, there’s going to be moments in...
Keeping the Peace During the Holidays
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information.] “The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.” Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One “You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family,...