Category: Life
“A Passage to India” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
Passage O soul to India! Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.Not you alone, proud truths of the world, Nor you alone, ye facts of modern science, But myths and fables of eld, Asia’s, Africa’s fables, The far-darting beams of the spirit, the unloos’d dreams, The deep diving bibles and legends, The daring plots of […]
Earthling=Little Earth
Earth touching
“O sweet spontaneous” by E.E. Cummings [w/ Audio]
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou […]
Proscription
Health—physical, mental, and societal—results mostly from what you refrain from doing rather than what you do.
Five Wise Lines from Ben Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Never ruin an apology with an excuse. In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five. And Five Honorable Mentions: Three may keep a secret, […]
Five Wise Lines from Epicurus
Lagniappe: Memento mori Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. principal doctrines – No. 2 Nothing is enough to someone for whom what is enough is too little. Vatican Sayings – No. 68 Of all the […]
The Gloss 