Monday

January 2023

Willow flowers, snowflakes, the same . . .
They're feckless.

No matter whose garden they fall in,
They'll always follow the wind away.
- Yuan Mei
11:45 AM Jan 31st


A neutral observer would not find this world to be believable. Ergo, the cause of said unbelievable world must place similar stretch marks on the imagination.
 - N. D. Wilson
2:00 PM Jan 30th


The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
 - Jean Cocteau
2:00 PM Jan 27th


I'm alive. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.
 - Ray Bradbury
12:36 PM Jan 26th


Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
 - Lewis Thomas
1:30 PM Jan 23rd


Gautama said that when the Great Ferris Wheel
stops turning, you will still be way up
there, swinging in your seat and laughing.
 - Robert Bly
12:33 PM Jan 19th


The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
 - John Green
9:30 AM Jan 18th


The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat.
 - John Muir
12:00 PM Jan 17th


The essential experience: the body sensing itself existing; the mind going its own way.
 - Charles Simic
9:50 AM Jan 10th


I have learned to be happy where I am. I have learned that locked within the moments of each day are all the joys, the peace, the fibers of the cloth we call life. The meaning is in the moment. There is no other way to find it. You feel what you allow yourself to feel.
 - Russ Berrie
1:00 PM Jan 9th


I follow my impulsive feet
Wherever they might go
My body is a pine tree
Surrounded by the snow
Sometimes I simply stand
Beside a flowing stream
Sometimes I chase a drifting
Cloud past another peak
 - Han-shan Te-Ch'ing


It is all around us, free, this wonderful life: clear jingle of tire chains, the laughter of ice that breaks under our boots. Each hour's a gift to those who take it up.
 - Ted Kooser
2:00 PM Jan 4th


How comforting it is, once or twice a year,
To get together and forget the old times.
 - James Fenton
4:00 PM Jan 2nd