Sam

Our minds are excuse makers: our imaginations are storytellers. So instead of asking ourselves what's right or wrong, we must ask ourselves:
What is true and beautiful?
- Glennon Doyle, Untamed

#sundaysentence

One of the nieces (of the nieces & nephews fame) made honor roll for summer term at Penn State before the fall semester of her freshman year. I texted her all the wisdom I’ve attained:

‘Congrats. Good to start with and then keep momentum.
Half of life is momentum.
The other half is steering’

Which is harder to be, a WhiteSox fan or a Mets fan?

At least the White Sox have the decency to get your suffering over with after the first five weeks of the season. Mets really do drag it out until the last moment.

Let's have an amen for the sensual side.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
- John Dunne, Meditations XVII

This was written in 1624. We humans don't seem to be fast learners.

Acorns and more acorns. My world is abundant with acorns.

As I remember her now, it seems true, that the intimacy of the moment with Karen Granger in 1955, in the tenth year of my life, was rarely matched in all that has happened since.
- Robert Olen Butler, They Whisper

#SundaySentence

Photography is really perception. As with all art, the objective of photography is not the duplication of visual reality, but an investigation of the outer world and its influence on the inner world.... All of my photographs are photographs of myself.

- Ansel Adams

I like email. But I get the sense that it has lost all allure and interest for most people. Almost seems like it's dying except for business use.

Maybe coincidence but i read New Yorker, have for decades, and that movie is one of a handful i've saved on my DVR. I had an idea for a great character from that movie-could imagine an entire series from it, which remains so far only an idea. Many memorable scenes in that movie.

I get such a kick seeing acorns. We're blitzed with them each fall, banging on our roof and covering the ground here. I could collect thousands.

I hold one acorn in my hand and think: this is a potential oak forest, here in my hand. It seems more profound to me than all the A/I on earth.

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I can do very silly things and not feel embarrassed.

Lately, MLB home run balls have become a thing to fight over.

But the man who caught Mike Trout’s 400th career home run ball wanted a memory more than a payday.

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I don't know if I've ever been tatty or not, but it did get me wondering how different might people have been who never looked in a mirror. Because there were none.

Thought for the day. Via my Irish grandmother's words of wisdom. Which I never understood as a kid. Took me a long time to understand this one:

Paper never refused ink.

That book is full of them. So many quotable passages. And i'm only about halfway in.

Living inside our mental models is so seductively convincing that it can be a shock to realize that they are not the real world.
- John Higgs, William Blake vs The World

#SundaySentence #2

I did not know, before that woman told me, that all feelings were for feeling. I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy. I thought happy was for feeling and pain was for fixing.and numbing and hiding.
-Glennon Doyle, Untamed

#sundaysentence #1

The first spring wildflowers in Patagonia are always the “retamos”’ seen here along the Espolon River in Futaleufú. In a few weeks they will be joined by the blood orange embrothium &, then, the ubiquitous purple lupines. These blooms intersect in Nov. & Dec. which is a nice time to visit Patagonia!

I often have inner conflict about whether to heart a post when it has words and a picture and I really like the picture but don't like or agree at all with the words. Or, vice versa, love the words but think the picture is just awful or inappropriate to the words. I have no conclusion . . .

You forgot old and huge.

It's probably just me but the phrase "value proposition" gives me gas.

Doesn't get much better than Saskatoon syrup.

According to Mr Google, before the 19th century looking in the mirror was a very infrequent event for most people, because mirrors were expensive and few people had one.

Only very recently in human history do we have frequent mirror gazing.

I woke up pondering, as one does, how often Plato and Aristotle looked in the mirror, or if they even had a mirror to look into?

Self-Portrait, 1866 #romanticism #cezanne

As baseball approaches post-season my reading always goes way down. Working my way through "The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, on nights when baseball doesn't grab me. More enthused about several books of fiction I just ordered by Robert Olen Wilson.

Reminds me of a sign i once saw on a TX storefront:
We buy junk, Sell Antiques.