Maxims

"Maxims for Her Nuns" in Complete Works St. Teresa of Avila (1963)

~Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
~Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
~Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
~Reflect upon the providence and wisdom of God in all created things and praise Him in them all.'
~Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
~Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
~Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Sea

[RED sea]

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

- 1 Corinthians x. 12.
{on the Hudson River}

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns

The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds

To dying ears, when unto dying eyes

The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;

So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Saturday night

Outside the take-away, Saturday night
-a bald adolescent, asks me out for a fight
He was no bigger than a two-penny fart
he was a deft exponent of the martial art
-He gave me three warnings:
Trod on me toes, stuck his fingers in my eyes
-and kicked me in the nose
A rabbit punch made me eyes explode
My head went dead,
I fell in the road I pleaded for mercy
I wriggled on the ground ...he kicked me in the balls
and said something profound...
Gave my face the millimetre tread
Stole me chop suey and left me for dead
~johnny clarke~~~~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqiCCPxNvfk&feature=related

Raven

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!

By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'

Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'~POE

while I ponder........

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more."
~~~
Shall be lifted — nevermore!—Edgar Allan Poe

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. - Aleister Crowley
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. - Thomas Jefferson
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham

Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilique_du_Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur,_Paris

SM=shirley

Shirley Manson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Manson

in the name of...

Costa Rica

Think of how stupid the average person is,

and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Mexico

El Tajin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Taj%C3%ADn

Sands

Lawyers should be buried 35 feet underground since,

deep down, they are very nice people.

Swollen Member

Canadian hip-hop band Swollen Members mentions Bateman

in their song "Paranoia", with the line: "No one's trying to kill you, stupid. There's no Norman Bates peeking in your window, there's no Patrick Bateman trying to pick you up in limos."

30ties

pinkF

More.....

Syd Barrett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett

i.C.u

~Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.William Blake
~Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.John Updike
~Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.John Donne
~I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.Otto Von Bismarck

Forest

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

Wind in the Willows

"`This is the place of my song-dream, the place

the music played to me,' whispered the Rat, as if in a trance.

`Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!'"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

title comes from the title of Chapter Seven,

"THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN,"

of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows,

the red sea area [holy land]

TV=tv

I am not alone. I intend to let go of despair or nostalgia and I choose to make peace with loss or express mourning in order to move forward. I release the rut of regret and the fear of tomorrow to make way for forgiveness, pleasure, beauty, and hope. I am empowered by my conscience and my gift is forgiveness."

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big,

because the punishment is the same either way.

The other day a woman came up to me and said, "Didn't I see you on television?" I said, "I don't know. You can't see out the other way."

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think

deeply and be quite insane. - Nikola Tesla

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. - Nancy Astor
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. - Joey Bishop

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. - Donald H. Rumsfeld

long gone

Larry's Hideaway, Toronto, long gone now ....
The new Yorker, Toronto, 1976, long gone....

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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
Rodney Dangerfield

X-47B

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B

CEO

A woman's favorite position is CEO.

U are entering

Dudeism is a religion whose primary objective is to promote a philosophy and lifestyle represented by the character of "the Dude"

http://www.dudeism.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglOHphhpcg&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rev-rn-4r-3-HM

January 3, 2010Tomorrow Yesterday~~~~~~Love Horoscope
Hit hard and fast when needed, but don't use up all your ammunition on the first target you see. The essence of exercise is that it should not exhaust you, but should reinvigorate and leave your stronger for the effort. So it is with life.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsqL6CODcA&feature=related

JAN~01-2010

Hi Pavlos! ~Here is your Daily Horoscope
~for Thursday, ~December 31
No matter how tough things look, you've got hope --
and should keep pushing! The new year promises
better luck for you, and any roadblocks you see now
should be long gone sooner than you realize.