Friday

October 2020

Give anything weird a wide berth - including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way, through brutal overindulgence.
 - Hunter S. Thompson
12:30 PM Oct 30th


This is the season
of diminishing returns. And what will we do
with that hour we gain when the clocks turn
back? Will it rattle in our pocket, empty
as the moon?
 - Barbara Crooker
5:30 PM Oct 29th


Whatever you're feeling, billions already have. Feel for them.
 - Sarah Manguso
8:45 AM Oct 28th


Here's how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it's not just biting our ass, but it's already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left.
- Chuck Wendig
8:30 AM Oct 27th


It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
 - David Brin
9:30 AM Oct 25th


I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
1:30 PM Oct 24th


Dig yourself a ditch, six
feet deep, and bury everything that you've ever
said, everything that you've never
meant, and everything that has
burned you and left you with nothing
but ash.
 - Shinji Moon
11:30 AM Oct 23rd


The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."
 - Sydney J. Harris
1:00 PM Oct 22nd


Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.
 - Pico Iyer
11:30 AM Oct 21st


Choose one: chronic disappointment or lowering your expectations to the point where nothing can disappoint you. But consider also that you might miss feeling disappointed.
 - Sarah Manguso
8:30 AM Oct 20th


There is no cure for that nightmare of omnipotence except pain; because that is the thing a man knows he would not tolerate if he could really control it.
 - G. K. Chesterton
5:45 PM Oct 19th


I encourage all of us, whatever our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect past developments with present concerns, and not to be afraid of controversial issues.
 - Yuval Noah Harari
8:30 AM Oct 16th


Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love.
 - Sarah Manguso
12:00 PM Oct 15th


In the great silence of my favorite month,
October (the red of maples, the bronze of oaks,
A clear-yellow leaf here and there on birches),
I celebrated the standstill of time.
 - Czesław Miłosz
5:30 PM Oct 14th


I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories like these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.
 - Lloyd Jones
1:15 PM Oct 14th


Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.
 - Sarah Manguso
5:15 PM Oct 13th


Oh life to live, life already lived,
time that comes back in a swell of sea,
time that recedes without turning its head,
the past is not past, it is still passing by,
flowing silently into the next vanishing moment
- Octavio Paz
9:00 AM Oct 12th


Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview.
 - Bernardo Kastrup
9:00 AM Oct 11th


The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else.
 - Sarah Manguso
1:00 PM Oct 9th


Who seems a harmless fool to those above him is a malevolence to those beneath.
 - Sarah Manguso
8:00 AM Oct 9th


The more the life of the mind is unhinged, the more the machinery of matter will be left to itself.
 - G. K. Chesterton
8:30 AM Oct 7th


You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life, for eternal us, is now; and now is much too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything, catastrophic included.
 - E. E. Cummings
12:00 PM Oct 6th


Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
- C. S. Lewis
9:00 AM Oct 5th


A white horse grazes alone
beneath the flight
of swallows:
as evening
gently surrenders itself
to the murmur of insects in the peace.
- Peter Skrzynecki
five branch tree


Everywhere
around me the birds are waiting
for the light. In this world of dreams
don't let the clock cut up
your life in pieces.
 - Jim Harrison