December 2019
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
- Arundhati Roy
8:00 AM Dec 28th
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
8:00 AM Dec 27th
Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.
- Jonathan Tropper
8:00 AM Dec 26th
Imagine viewing Christmas as an occasion to enjoy,
and not something that must be endured.
For that matter, imagine feeling that way
about the rest of the year.
- John Tottenham
8:00 AM Dec 25th
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling reckless extravagance.
- Tove Jansson
7:00 AM Dec 24th
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
- Mary Oliver
7:30 AM Dec 23rd
Families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. At some point, you pardon the people in your family for being stuck together in all their weirdness, and when you do that, you can learn to pardon anyone. Even yourself, eventually.
- Anne Lamott
1:00 PM Dec 22nd
I do like Christmas on the whole ... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
- E. M. Forster
9:30 AM Dec 22nd
We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.
- Dean Koontz
12:15 PM Dec 21st
The future opens, he looks into
the self-rotating kaleidoscope
sees indistinct fluttering faces
family faces not yet born.
- Tomas Tranströmer
7:30 AM Dec 20th
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell
7:30 AM Dec 19th
look
the spangles
that sleep all the year in a dark box
dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine
- E. E. Cummings
11:00 AM Dec 17th
I escape to the same places and same words.
Cold breeze from the sea, the ice-dragon's licking
the back of my neck while the sun glares.
- Tomas Tranströmer
9:00 AM Dec 14th
Dreamt I had drawn piano keys
on my kitchen table. I played on them, mute.
The neighbors came over to listen.
- Tomas Tranströmer
7:30 AM Dec 13th
A man in a library asked the librarian, "Can you tell me where the self-help section is?"
The librarian replied, "Now, doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose?"
7:30 AM Dec 11th
An autumn night -
don't think your life
didn't matter.
- Basho
5:00 PM Dec 10th
The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us.
- Donald Miller
7:00 AM Dec 10th
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do - even when we are not conscious of them.
- Edward De Bono
7:30 AM Dec 3rd
The sun-comprehending glass,
- Arundhati Roy
8:00 AM Dec 28th
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
8:00 AM Dec 27th
Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.
- Jonathan Tropper
8:00 AM Dec 26th
Imagine viewing Christmas as an occasion to enjoy,
and not something that must be endured.
For that matter, imagine feeling that way
about the rest of the year.
- John Tottenham
8:00 AM Dec 25th
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling reckless extravagance.
- Tove Jansson
7:00 AM Dec 24th
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
- Mary Oliver
7:30 AM Dec 23rd
Families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. At some point, you pardon the people in your family for being stuck together in all their weirdness, and when you do that, you can learn to pardon anyone. Even yourself, eventually.
- Anne Lamott
1:00 PM Dec 22nd
I do like Christmas on the whole ... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
- E. M. Forster
9:30 AM Dec 22nd
We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.
- Dean Koontz
12:15 PM Dec 21st
The future opens, he looks into
the self-rotating kaleidoscope
sees indistinct fluttering faces
family faces not yet born.
- Tomas Tranströmer
7:30 AM Dec 20th
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell
7:30 AM Dec 19th
look
the spangles
that sleep all the year in a dark box
dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine
- E. E. Cummings
11:00 AM Dec 17th
I escape to the same places and same words.
Cold breeze from the sea, the ice-dragon's licking
the back of my neck while the sun glares.
- Tomas Tranströmer
9:00 AM Dec 14th
Dreamt I had drawn piano keys
on my kitchen table. I played on them, mute.
The neighbors came over to listen.
- Tomas Tranströmer
7:30 AM Dec 13th
A man in a library asked the librarian, "Can you tell me where the self-help section is?"
The librarian replied, "Now, doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose?"
7:30 AM Dec 11th
An autumn night -
don't think your life
didn't matter.
- Basho
5:00 PM Dec 10th
The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us.
- Donald Miller
7:00 AM Dec 10th
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do - even when we are not conscious of them.
- Edward De Bono
7:30 AM Dec 3rd
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air,
that shows Nothing,
and is nowhere, and is endless.
- Philip Larkin
- Philip Larkin
