Disobedience is as much a proof of authority as obedience. You cannot be a rebel without acknowledging a government. You cannot be a heretic unless you are first a believer. ~ Tiffany Reisz It’s not so hard, coming to believe […]
Continue reading »Life’s Journey
Adrift in a morass of regrets I stare at the ocean liner offering to lift me to luxury. Restrained by fear, chained by inertia, petrified by panic. I’m going nowhere but surely that can’t be my fault.
Continue reading »When Love Becomes an Instinct
Amazing what’s happening when love becomes an instinct. ~ television story about a man with Alzheimer’s out to buy flowers for his wife the day before Mother’s Day There’s an etiquette of gift-giving, one that mothers knew way before Sheldon’s […]
Continue reading »Keeping Quiet
…I often keep quiet when confronted, instead of speaking my mind. This might be a legitimate response, except that I don’t consciously make the choice. This is not responding, it’s reacting, giving up my self-respect out of fear and out […]
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Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does? ~ Alcoholics […]
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