WORDS
This is where you will find short stories, personal essays, and guest posts. Family and friends and the ordinary business of life are the inspiration for this section.
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,...
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,...
Loving Animals in Their Proper Place
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] There is at least one thing I agree on with Donald Trump: “Donald was not a dog fan.” As a Godless liberal and unrepentant elitist, I have no plans (nor does Donald) to add a pet to my family in...
Imagination and Reason in the Time of Tragedy: Lao Tzu, Voltaire, Blake, Camus, and Marquez
[Click on BLUE link for sources and further information] “It is certainly the day of judgment,” said Candide. [Candide, or The Optimist by Voltaire] Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau William Blake Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;...
Taking A Break
It has been a year and a half since I created Think in the Morning. I have put up over 150 posts. Many of the posts have been nostalgic memories of the Sea Gull Restaurant and Bar in Mendocino during the time I was the owner/operator. Other posts include...
Poems – 10
This is our tenth page of poems and art. Think in the Morning posts a poem and a piece of napkin art produced in the old Sea Gull Cellar Bar every day on our Facebook Page. Autumn Song Sarojini Naidu Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow, The...
Poem by Think in the Morning: Between the Days
Between the Days Between the days that fill a life You jammed your youth into a socket With just a nerve to register Beneath some skin that fits a body Beneath some hair and sweat With just a nerve to register What, left unnoticed, moments passed. Between the...
Poems – 9
As is our custom, this is the ninth posting of poems and napkin art first posted on our Think in the Morning Facebook page. Private Alamo Tom Chandler O'er the ramparts I watch you come gallantly streaming, buckskin cornlikker stinking of texas....
Guest Post: The Swan and the Sculptor by Mitchell Zucker
Think in the Morning loves to post stories and articles by our friends. This is the fourth story we have posted by Mitchell Zucker. It is a beautiful story that we know you will enjoy. Mitchell Zucker © 1990 A young sculptor was walking through...
Poems – 8
[Click on BLUE LINK for more information] Think in the Morning posts a poem with a sample of napkin art on our Facebook Page every day. This is the 9th post on our website of accumulated poems. Other poems and links can be found HERE: Poems - 7 ...
Poems – 7
[Click on BLUE links for further information] Think in the Morning posts a poem and a selection of Napkin Art every day on our Facebook Page (search for @ThinkintheMorning). This is the 7th group that we have consolidated on this blog. Poems – 1...
The Downside of Inheritance
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer “Money isn’t everything,” said my mother, “but it...