Dec 09 2010
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
–Samuel Butler |
 Ornamental 13 |
Dec 08 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
I’m coming close to having my fill.
| Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
–Bernard Berenson |
 Floristic |
Dec 07 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant’s bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: “To eat these things,” said my uncle, “You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” And as you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow. –Theodore Seuss Geisel |
 Ornamental 12 |
Dec 06 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
I’m coming close to having my fill.
| What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told – and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their “beliefs.” The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.
–Michael Crichton |
 Ornamental 11 |
Dec 03 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
–Eric Hoffer |
 Ornamental 10 |
Dec 02 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I may not be different, but I’m definitely not the same.
–William J. Dybus |
 Ornamental 9 |
Dec 01 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
–Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare |
 Ornamental 8 |
The following was written for a previous World AIDS Day.
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Nov 30 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.
–John Allston |
 Ornamental 7 |
Nov 29 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| We need – and should encourage and honor – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.
–Walter Moberly |
 Ornamental 6 |
Nov 25 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.
–Proverb |
 Ornamental 3 |
Nov 24 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Ornamental 2 |
Nov 23 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
–Friedrich Nietzsche |
 Ornamental |