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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller 

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Stephane Mallarme, French poet (1842 - 1898).

stuff and nonsense

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  - Dr. Seuss

My inside listen to me, the greatest spirit,

The teacher is near,

Wake up, wake up,

Run to his feet –

he is standing close to your head right now,

You have slept for millions and millions of years

Why not wake us this morning?

                       Kabir

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.


- Eleonora Duse

“I looked in the mirror on my birthday and discovered that my ears had gotten old. They are no longer shell-like and appealingly pink, but pendulous and wrinkled, something like Hermione Gingold's ears in Gigi (and how many years has it been since I realized I had begun to relate to Hermione instead of Leslie Caron when I watch Gig?) The spots and freckles, the flab and wobble, the folded eyelids and the stubby eyelashes, the creaky knees and crumbling teeth had, until the moment of the pendulous lobes, been matters for denial and half-hearted plans for renovation and disguise. Old ears were my turning point. I have reached the Age of Acceptance”

Jane O’Reilly