July 2023

To sing is to begin a sentence
like "I want to get well.
I am not born for nothing
and neither are you:
Heaven never wept
Over nothing."
 - Thomas Merton
2:00 PM July 28th

I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.
 - Robert Anton Wilson
7:00 AM July 26th

The real fun of conspiracy hunting comes when you realize you can't trust anyone, as all the paranoids know.
 - Robert Anton Wilson
1:00 PM July 25th

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.
 - Pablo Neruda
1:00 PM July 24th

If you look at your watch, realize you still don't know the time, and look again, were you strictly speaking awake the first time you looked?
 - Robert Anton Wilson
11:30 AM July 21st

Like the Buddhist monk in the moonlight, sweeping the long stairs year after year, believing there is more to learn in the darkness, knowing the moon does not begin with his heart but stopping every so often in the stillness of his shadow to consider it so.
 - Jonathan Blake
12:30 PM July 19th

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
 - Hunter S. Thompson

2:00 PM July 18th

Fireflies in the Garden
Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
 - Robert Frost

11:30 AM July 14th

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
 - Ram Dass
1:00 PM July 13th

Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to
save my life

a little.
 - Mary Oliver

1:30 PM July 11th

The truth of the matter being that there is no such thing as time. Time is a hallucination. There is only today. There never will be anything except today. And if you do not know how to live today, you are demented.
 - Alan Watts
12:30 PM July 10th

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute.
 - Naomi Shihab Nye
9:30 AM July 8th

When you have nothing more to say,
just drive
For a day all around the peninsula
 - Seamus Heaney
12:30 PM July 7th

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
 - Ray Bradbury
12:00 PM July 6th