Sense of live

The day will happen
whether or not you get up.
John Ciardi

The trouble with life
isn’t that there is no answer,
but that there are so many answers.
Ruth Benedict, anthropologist

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After one look at this planet,
any visitor from outer space would say,
“I want to see the manager.”
William S. Burroughs

Think for yourselves
and let others enjoy the privilege
to do so too.
Voltaire
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NOTE: The movie is R-rated, and may be inappropriate or offensive to some. But I tend to like off-the-traveled path, quirky films. Around 1969 or 1970 I walked into a theater in the middle of an afternoon and caught a sneak preview of “Harold and Maude” (and at the end of the film I turned around, and “Maude” (Ruth Gordon) was sitting right behind me!  (Did you know that Ruth Gordon, besides being an actress, was one of Hollywood’s top screenwriters, having co-written a number of Tracy-Hepburn films?)

I don’t know if “Idiocracy” stands up to “Harold and Maude” or one of my all-time favorites — “Groundhog Day” — and wouldn’t exactly call it a “gem” — but it made an impression on me.  A clever satire and almost prophetically scary (if sometimes crass) comedy about one possible dystopian future toward which we may be trending . . . Idiocracy

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Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin

A life spent in making mistakes
is not only more honorable,
but more useful,
than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Our errors are our portals of discovery.
James Joyce

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Book Updates:

PEACEFUL WARRIOR: The Graphic Novel (Oct 2010) is now finished.

THE FOUR PURPOSES OF LIFE (April 2011) is nearly done.

Hope to draft yet another book before the end of this year.  Stay tuned…

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No amount of fine feelling
can take the place of faithful doing.
William Barclay

If you think you’re lucky, you are.
Bobby Dodd

When you’re safe at home
you wish you were having an adventure;
when you’re having an adventure
you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder

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A Preview: One Page from PEACEFUL WARRIOR: The Graphic Novel

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father
and a boy out of his grandfather.
Angie Papadakis

My father didn’t tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence B. Kelland

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A Nice Gift