“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” ~Epictetus
2022
November 2022
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” ~William Morris
October 2022
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
~ W.S. Merwin, Separation
September 2022
“So moments pass as though they wished to stay.
We have not long to love. A night. A day…”
~ Tennessee Williams
August 2022
“Time spent laughing at yourself is time well spent.”
~ Jim Carrey
July 2022
“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.”
~ John Galsworthy
June 2022
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.”
~ Ronald Coase
May 2022
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
April 2022
“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”
~ Milan Kundera
March 2022
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
~ George Santayana, 1922
February 2022
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”
~Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
January 2022
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”~James Joyce, The Dead