August 2023

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.
 - Raymond Carver
1:00 PM Aug 25th

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
 - Sydney J. Harris
1:15 PM Aug 21st

Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all the time, some of us are thinking more and some less.
Some brains are battling and working and remembering and puzzling things over all the time and other brains are just lying down, snoring and occasionally turning over.
 - Ted Hughes
8:30 AM Aug 16th

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
 - Kathleen Norris
8:00 AM Aug 14th

Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?
 - Annie Dillard
11:00 AM Aug 10th

We live in the mind.
 - Wallace Stevens
2:15 PM Aug 3rd

Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.'
 - Richard Dawkins
12:00 PM Aug 2nd

The moon glows the same:
     it is the drifting cloud forms
     make it seem to change.
 - Matsuo Bashō
1:00 PM Aug 1st