February 2011
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Two Quotes in One Article
“We should wonder why depression has become a disease. It is a disease of a society that is looking desperately for happiness, which we cannot catch. And so people collapse into themselves.”
“You can’t summon happiness like you summon a dog. We cannot master happiness, it cannot be the fruit of our decisions. We have to be more humble. Not because we should praise...
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Adjust
It’s taken me days to adjust to the family coming home, just as it took days to adjust to their departure. My life was simple while the girls were away, overly simple, Thoreau simple. Silence and quiet, were my friends. Come home from work, make a laughable dinner, watch hockey or turn off all sounds and read. Then I’d turn the lights out for the evening and sleep.
One of the first...
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“It is what I mean by hazard. There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum*. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”
-The Magus by John Fowles
*Definition of falcrum
1. The point or support on which a lever...
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Torn up Novel
I listen to Jazz. I listen to Jazz mostly when I’m alone. My wife when she was young and was my girlfriend then, use to work at a restaurant that played Jazz. She brought a CD home one time by Miles Davis called Kind of Blue. That CD changed my life and began my love affair with Jazz music.
People my age don’t listen to Jazz. People younger then me definitely don’t listen to...
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my-imagination-is-real asked: What happens when life seems so un- bearable you can't go on....how do you keep smiling :) xx
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