Poem: The Healing Time

Finally on my way to yes
I bump into
all the places
where I said no
to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages
that send me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say holy
holy.

         Pesha Joyce Gertler 

 

 

 

 

 

Good question

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark?
Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

            Steven Spielberg, Facebook post

 

 

 

 

 

Doubly positive

During a lecture, the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim
that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning,
there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative.
Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, "Yeah, yeah."

        Obituary for Professor Sidney Morgenbesser, The Independent, 2004

Feast of St. Francis

The saints are simple people.
It is the condition of divided allegiance,
doubt and compromise
and the twists and turns of self-deception,
that is complicated,
not holiness.

        Elizabeth Goudge, Saint Francis of Assisi

Consequences

Sometimes the consequences of holding a belief matter more than its truth.

                    Martin Seligman, Authentic Happiness 

 

 

 

 

 

Modern times

People are less modern than the times in which they live.

        Louis Menand, Fractured Franchise, The New Yorker magazine

Welcome, October

October, baptize me with leaves!
Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup.
October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets
and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.
O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

            Rainbow Rowell, Attachments