--SOMETIMES
IT’S SAFER WHEN THERE’S NO WAY OUT
…I
have this poem, “Hydrophobia,” up at Eunoia Review today:
…I’m
back from Denver. What a fun time with
Robert Vaughan, Meg Tuite, Kathy Fish, Nancy Stohlman, Leah Rogin-Roper, Levi
Noe, Katharyn Grant, Roseanna Frechette and many others.
I read
better than I normally do. Five
pieces. I had most of them memorized as
they were quite short.
There
was a lot of laughter and drinking and a bit of food here and there. Sleep was dicey. Over all it was an outstanding trip and I
missed the power outage here at home, so there’s that.
…Here
are some things I like on a Thursday:
-“I
look at each experience talking to someone as a whole new world.”
-“Fear
can be useful.”
-“Sometimes
curiosity is akin to excitement.
Sometimes it’s just having an investigative mind.”
-“Maybe
curiosity killed the cat, but the lack of curiosity will kill us.” – Patti
Smith
-“To
love is to buy mockery at the expense of moaning.” Shakespeare
-"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
David Hume
-"Memory
is a fist to the eye." The David Tomas Martinez
-"Optimism
is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true
progress." Nicholas Murray Butler
-"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a
fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind
the morning." J.B. Priestley
-"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it
will be too late." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
-"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up
children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and
fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all."
Benjamin Spock
-"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's
superiority to all that befalls him." Romain Gary
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