Sunday, December 04, 2005
rummaging through notes on sunday...
I know, I know... I was supposed to bring back "statistics sundays" today - but, quite frankly, I do not feel like it much on this rather bleak Sunday for me... so, instead, I scavenged through my pre-2002 notes... Writers are encouraged to always be taking notes - one never knows what will prove to be inspiring... these notes were jotted down with a good old-fashioned quill (okay - a ballpoint pen, actually...) and are so full of wisdom that, I instantly realize, that I made myself a disfavor by not making use of these notes earlier...
"There is much more justice in the universe than we realize, but it is not our job to mete out justice - or (even) to be there when it happens."
"Gloating diminishes us.
Paul Engle, a poet and founder of the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop, once introduced a man he had publicly insulted years before, by saying,
'I am small enough to have remembered what I did. He is big enough to have forgotten.'
Be big enough too. Forget and move on."
All that actually even pre-dates 9/11 - excerpted from a column titled "Direct Answers", the June 16, 2001 edition...
I am glad I preserved these words.
Today - of all days - they bring me comfort...
I am tired of all the fighting... I am weary... I am worn-out...
Bleak Sunday it is... hence, no Statistics Sunday for yet another week...
Blame it on the bleakness...
"There is much more justice in the universe than we realize, but it is not our job to mete out justice - or (even) to be there when it happens."
"Gloating diminishes us.
Paul Engle, a poet and founder of the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop, once introduced a man he had publicly insulted years before, by saying,
'I am small enough to have remembered what I did. He is big enough to have forgotten.'
Be big enough too. Forget and move on."
All that actually even pre-dates 9/11 - excerpted from a column titled "Direct Answers", the June 16, 2001 edition...
I am glad I preserved these words.
Today - of all days - they bring me comfort...
I am tired of all the fighting... I am weary... I am worn-out...
Bleak Sunday it is... hence, no Statistics Sunday for yet another week...
Blame it on the bleakness...
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Tomorrow... for smiling?
And the day after that? What would it be for... I wonder? *lol*
Okay - I know - the key to serenity is (among many other things) NOT PLANNING TOO FAR AHEAD!
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And the day after that? What would it be for... I wonder? *lol*
Okay - I know - the key to serenity is (among many other things) NOT PLANNING TOO FAR AHEAD!
;)
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