Today is the First Day
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”― Rumi Clarence Street Art Collective, The Cedars, Dallas, Texas I remember back in high school...
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“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”― Umberto Eco Stuff on a picnic table in Huffhines Park, Richardson Texas. Day two of the rest of my life. I didn’t get up as early as I liked – but I did...
View ArticleSomebody Had A Bad Day
“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”― J.G. Ballard, Crash Scene of a crash. That heavy metal bollard – put in to...
View ArticleStaycation
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our...
View ArticleLittle Free Libraries Everywhere
“Are you happy wearing clothes that don’t give you pleasure? Do you feel joy when surrounded by piles of unread books that don’t touch your heart? Do you think that owning accessories you know you’ll...
View ArticleBicycling at Dawn
“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”― Oscar Wilde, The...
View ArticleLet Me Sip
“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but...
View ArticleAnd the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon
“Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up there,and your cradle too?Baby,I think someone down herehas got it in for you!”― Shel Silverstein...
View ArticleDragging Out My Folder
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and...
View ArticleReserved Parking
“When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.”― J.G. Ballard, Millennium People my Xootr Swift folding bike, plus helmet and gloves I had a great time riding around (although...
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