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Just a human trying to live his best self.
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Good morning!
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
October 28, 2025, with Liza Donnelly of Seeing Things:
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
"There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you."
~ Marian Anderson
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
~ Langston Hughes
"Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides."
~ Anne Lamott
The great PNW
19.10.2025 21:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Photo by (Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images)
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"This, then, is the state of the Union: Free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith."
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Thinking of this tonight. Worth watching to the end.
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
~ Martin Luther King, JR
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
~ Ernest Hemingway
Good night from the PNW.
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Good morning from the PNW
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