Back in Chicago – well almost - headed into Chicago this afternoon – to visit with my niece – her father, my brother is in town and I haven’t gotten my mail in four months. I returned from the Lake and shaved my head. When I looked at my head on my 61st birthday (two months ago) I could see my scalp – hair getting thin – better none that spotty – so I’ve been growing a beard – and now it’s looking good – so I shaved my head an hour ago and it feels strange – gee I look like my father. I'll take the META downtown from Homewood – runs every other hour on Sunday. Due to get in at Millennium Station (Below Millennium Park) at about 3 this afternoon.
The final and most revolting injustice is consummated when poverty is wed to the life without hope – Albert Camus
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Getting over the blahs again
I awoke in slow time
In homogeneous time
Time without division
Or addition
I awoke in slow time
In homogeneous time
Time without division
Or addition
Exponnetial time
It was all one – that 59
Ford Galaxy and the 47
Chevy pick-up
Could as well have
It was all one – that 59
Ford Galaxy and the 47Chevy pick-up
Could as well have
Been the Astrovan
Just a jar of jellybeans
Such a grab bag of time
Any flavor will do
Just don’t make me decide
Just a jar of jellybeans
Such a grab bag of time
Any flavor will do
Just don’t make me decide
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things – Albert Camus
So how much did the Slum Dog Millionaire win in US dollars – one million rubees is about $20,000
Lifting dumbbells is not a hobby. It is a confession of subservience, not an assertion of freedom – Aldo Leopold
The greater the urge
The more it needs
Resisting
Sit still
And when urged
To remain calm
Get up
And run
One needs be
A contrarian
To achieve
Anything
At all
Sit still
And when urged
To remain calm
Get up
And run
One needs be
A contrarian
To achieve
Anything
At all
Powers do not have to show it. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it; you know it – Ralph Elllison
Words lie intermediate – forming a relationship, between the specific and the general
Remember you don’t have to be a complete fool, in order to succeed. Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself… Play the game, but play it your own way – part of the time at least. Play the game. But rise the ante, my boy – learn how it operates, learn how you operate – Ralph Ellison
What ever it is that we wreck
Nature shall correct
Its just that once we have done it
It shall not return in our lifetime
Things that you make
You can unmake
But what you didn’t
You can’t resurrect
Perhaps only the unreliable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie – Ralph Ellison
Half a dozen different
Wildflower in bloom
Including the claret cup
But Abbey’s cliff roses
Are the most prominent
Filling the night with
Their perfume
The lizards
Scamper about
The only thing about
In the heat of the day
Darting from shadow
To shadow
Stopping only to
Palpitate the air
For edible scents
Pioneers usually scoff at any effort to perpetuate pioneering – Aldo Leopold
A chigger is the larval stage of a mite – kin to the tick – and it doesn’t bit but injects the host with an enzyme and feed on tiny parts of the inner skin. This causes severe itching accompanied by a red-pimple like bump that usually appears only after the larvae have detached themselves.
For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat – Albert Camus
Last year RV purchases were down 32.9% from the previous year: 237,000 vs. 363,400 units. 90% of the RV market is composed of motorhomes, travel trailers and fifth wheel trailers. Folding towed and truch campers compose the remainer.
It is better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others – Ralph Ellison
For like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hardwork and progress and action, but now, after first being ‘for’ society and then ‘against’ it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the time. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities – Ralph Ellison
Going counterclockwise is
The left-handed way
The spiral is the most common
And if counterclockwise is right
And there was no
Statistical preference for
Left-handed men then
It would have indicated they were
True artist and not just priests
While the actual working cowboy disappears, along with the genuine non-working Indian, the make believe cowboys flourish and multiple like flies on a pecan pie – Edward Abbey
Is not mathematics the
Universal language
That offended the gods
And the just cause that
Brought the towers down
Imagination and reach
Without limitation are
The precursors of tragedy
According to the Greeks
While the Greeks used reason to restrain the will, we have ended by placing the impulse of the will at the heart of reason, and reason has therefore become murderous – Albert Camus
In a curious paradox, humanity has refashioned a hostile destiny with the very weapons it used to reject fatality – Albert Camus
There is something profoundly sad
In the promise of a long life
We do what is quickest, which is to report what we have done and what we have seen – Albert Camus
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually thing of, but the sort that attempts to led dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die – Camus
LOWEST COMMON DEMONINATOR
Conceived by bureaucrats
Designed by a committee
Executed by lowest bidder
Administered by professionals
Upon the advice of the experts
The criticism of language cannot get around the fact that our words commit us and that we shall remain faithful to them. Naming an object inaccurately means adding to the unhappiness of the world – Camus
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