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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are..."

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:46:28 -0500

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

- Al Schweitze

“Christmas Group Therapy” by Glenn McCoy Art by...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:27:18 -0500

“Christmas Group Therapy” by Glenn McCoy

Art by Glenn McCoy, produced by “Laffs by Marcel” aka Marcel Schurman, Fairfield, CA 94534. Mr. Schurman heads the publishing division of the family business, Papyrus Stores. (www.papyrusonline.com).

"The artist’s own preference for the fantasy muse over the real-life woman is not entirely..."

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:39:43 -0500

“The artist’s own preference for the fantasy muse over the real-life woman is not entirely about clinging to the ideal in order to evade the messy realities of sex, jealousy, domestic tedium, and so forth. For artists, like the rest of us, sooner or later notice that the power of longing is more durable than the thrill of possession.”

- Prose, Francine. The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired. New York: Harper Collins: 2002

“Not so great being ‘a beauty’ I would...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:42:00 -0500

“Not so great being ‘a beauty’ I would imagine, you have it then you lose it and you still have many years to live.” Tanaquil Le Clercq

"The human body is only just coming to real life. With the Greeks it gave a lovely flicker, then..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:51:48 -0500

“The human body is only just coming to real life. With the Greeks it gave a lovely flicker, then Plato and Aristotle killed it and Jesus finished it off. But now the body is coming really to life, it is really rising from the tomb. And it will be a lovely, lovely life in the lovely universe, the life of the human body.”

- D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 1928

“Give me the body. I believe the life of the body is a greater reality than the life of the...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:44:32 -0500

“Give me the body. I believe the life of the body is a greater reality than the life of the mind: when the body is really wakened to life. But so many people…have only got minds tacked on to their physical corpses.” D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 1928

"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:32:13 -0500

“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. What do I care about knowledge. All I want is to answer to my blood without fribbling intervention ofmind, or moral, or what not….We have got so ridiculously mindful, that we never know that we ourselves are anything.”

- D. H. Lawrence, 1913

A History of New York, Chapter V. by Washington Irving

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:04:21 -0500

A History of New York, Chapter V. by Washington Irving

"Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:48:33 -0500

“Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him.”

- The Way of Transformation
by Karlfried Gras von Durkheim

"The Mind is so near itself—-it cannot see, distinctly."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:38:16 -0500

““The Mind is so near itself—-it cannot see, distinctly.””

- Emily Dickinson, 15 April 1862, Letter 260 to T. W. Higginson

"This is not a sustainable package."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:12:10 -0500

"This is not a sustainable package."

Insanity Workout

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:12:27 -0500

Insanity Workout:

Finally, truth in advertising. All I can do is laugh.

You’re either too fat or too thin and you should buy...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:55:42 -0500

You’re either too fat or too thin and you should buy products to become [insert adjective here]. Above all, do not be content with yourself because that would make it difficult to sell products to you.

"The world into which you were born is not the world in which you will live nor the world in which..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:21:59 -0500

“The world into which you were born is not the world in which you will live nor the world in which you will die.”

Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:01:00 -0500

Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist Sojourner Truth on Novemeber 11, 2006 in Berkeley, California. The speech was originally delivered at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio.

“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what’s this they call it? [member of audience whispers, “intellect”] That’s it, honey. What’s that got to do with women’s rights or negroes’ rights? If my cup won’t hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”

For All We Know “For all we know we may never meet...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:27:14 -0500

For All We Know

“For all we know we may never meet again
Before you go make this moment sweet again
We won’t say good night until the last minute
I’ll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it

For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know.”

Sam M. Lewis

Four Ways of Knowing: A Constructive-Developmental Theory

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:43:52 -0500

Four Ways of Knowing: A Constructive-Developmental Theory

KIND PLUS: ALMOND, WALNUT & MACADAMIA

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:51:48 -0500

KIND PLUS: ALMOND, WALNUT & MACADAMIA :

Yum.

Savage Chickens Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:53:35 -0500

Savage Chickens
Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage

"Super Christ Me. Every Sunday, TV congregations numbering tens of millions tune in to salvation..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:20:20 -0500

“Super Christ Me. Every Sunday, TV congregations numbering tens of millions tune in to salvation sermons broadcast from mega-churches filled with thousands upon thousands of followers. Sure, televangelism is shallow, manipulative, money-driven. But isn’t everything in pop culture (think Top 40 music, fast food, reality TV) just vacuous drivel designed for material gain? Maybe McJesus televangelism is just as valid a religion as any. But the real question is, can millions of couch-bound American souls survive on it alone? Who are we to point the finger at someone’s spiritual diet and say it’s time for some ecclesiastic exercise? Is televangelism an acceptable method of ministry to the masses?”

- Todd Steinberg for SoulPancake

His vernacular made me laugh.