A MOTTE AND A MOAT
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”“A man… Continue reading
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HER IMAGE, HIS GAZE
THAT TITLE IS FROM THE ART BOOK I’ve read a couple of times “The Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze – Picasso’s Pursuit of the Model” by Karen Kleinfelder. It’s from 1993,… Continue reading
ODD COUPLING
“Between the conception / And the creation / Between the emotion / And the responseFalls the Shadow / Life is very long” —T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men First-person memories are not that… Continue reading
UNASSISTED LIVING
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” —Robert Frost THIS ONE’S ABOUT WHAT’S LOST as we age and maybe what’s acquired, though I might save that for another post. The point remaining… Continue reading
BEING AND SAND
“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.” —… Continue reading
A WARM DEPRESSION
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuousformation through choice of action.” —John Dewey Memories are not standalone events recalled at will, even with the qualification that that gets more difficult… Continue reading
THESE DAYS
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us… Continue reading
OUT OF PLAY
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick The actors have left the stage, gone to their separate realities. The illusion of their chemistry… Continue reading
INACTION FIGURES
You know what they don’t tell you about getting old? It’s this: No one pays any attention to you any more. You become invisible, irrelevant to the working/playing, loving/hating world. You can get… Continue reading