May 2020

A few minutes ago, I stepped onto the deck
of the house. From there I could see and hear the water,
and everything that's happened to me all these years.
 - Raymond Carver
8:00 AM May 30th


Little animals from cartoons, talking rabbits, doggies, squirrels, as well as ladybugs, bees, grasshoppers. They have as much in common with real animals as our notions of the world have with the real world. Think of this, and tremble.
 - Czesław Miłosz
8:00 AM May 28th


What are days for? Days are where we live They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields. - Philip Larkin
8:30 AM May 27th


You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
- Philip Roth
5:00 PM May 26th


The individual desires liberation.
But, liberation from what?
Liberation from the pain of
Being an individual.
Can you not see why
Wu Hsin laughs so hard?
- Wu Hsin
11:30 AM May 26th


I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.
 - Philip Larkin
8:30 AM May 22nd

The murdering of one's own humanity for the sake of power and position has been around since man first oozed out of the slime and demanded a campaign contribution.
 - Mark Morford
11:30 AM May 21st


You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
 - Philip Roth
8:00 AM May 20th


If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
 - Audre Lorde
7:00 AM May 19th


There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
 - Philip Roth
7:15 AM May 18th


Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.
 - Nicolás Gómez Dávila
8:30 AM May 17th


Every breath taken in by the man
Who loves, and the woman who loves,
Goes to fill the water tank
Where the spirit horses drink.
 - Robert Bly
10:00 AM May 16th


Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
 - Lao Tzu
8:00 AM May 15th


You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.
 - Philip Roth
7:00 AM May 14th



Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.
 - Stephen Dobyns
12:00 PM May 13th


Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.
 - Kathleen Norris
8:00 AM May 13th


Of course, our understanding is limited. All we can do is adhere to those laws and principles that have been proven, time and again, to work.
 - Louis Jenkins
8:00 AM May 12th


Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences.
 - Stephen Dobyns
1:00 PM May 11th


We need to have mercy on ourselves.
 - Stephen Levine
9:00 AM May 11th


We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
 - G. K. Chesterton
8:00 AM May 10th


At high noon
or in the dark moonless night there is a light.
Can you see it?
And, by the way, who are you?
 - Shunryu Suzuki
12:00 PM May 8th


Call me. I have left my number
everywhere. I want to know
how this story turns out
 - Eleanor Lerman
7:30 AM May 7th


The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
  - G. K. Chesterton
7:30 AM May 6th


The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.
 - Karen Marie Moning
5:30 PM May 5th


How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
 - Bertrand Russell
7:45 AM May 5th


Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.
- Charles Yu
8:00 AM  May 4th


The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- William Faulkner
9:00 AM May 2nd


All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.
 - Charles Yu
7:00 AM May 1st