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“Diamond Rule”: “Do that which others need and no one else can do in your place”.

"I can only testify that he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so differen...

I wouldn't have watched except it came on during Jeopardy and I was sitting there...and I swear, WTF IS TALKING ABOUT??, he just makes n...

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form....

You left me, sweet, two legacies,— A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had he the offer of; You left me boundaries of pai...

"I can't go on, I'll go on." Samuel Beckett

"...his absence had gone on so long that I was falling into a trance with it and the tension was going out of it. I no longer had to ho...

There is an exhausted hornet where my mind used to be.

Unless you're Neko, who switches it up Bonus (Word.)  

Bonus bonus track Every minute of the show cracks me up, so I'm rewatching clips (why? because I don't know how to work the tv), n...

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.” ― Sctt Dikkers, ...

Outcomes assessment is my new specialty. Whatever is the chore needs doing as per usual. This one is both huge, what with our accrediatation...

Mark is still dead. I don't think about it for days and days. I'm busy. Then I remember and I think, STILL dead? Patti Smith, she sa...

Then, after he left me, the beginning was not only the first, happy occasion, opening into an infinite number of happy occasions, it also co...

VIRGO Unlike zoo animals, people often get to design their own cages. It sometimes takes them a while to realize this, though. You have mor...

We want things we cannot have. We seek to reclaim a certain moment, sound, sensation. I want to hear my mother’s voice. I want to see my chi...

The temperature was dropping and a light snow was falling. I sat before Brecht’s grave and hummed the lullaby Mother Courage sings over the ...

"I thought of everything and noticed almost nothing around me." The Beautiful Struggle, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mark died this morning. I was dreaming about Danniel. Kerri was with her like for some get together to which had come uninvited. I said, let...

"More than anything else, I realized, it had to be boring to be crazy, to think the same sequence of thoughts and come up with the same...

Leave the dishes. Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor. Leave the ...

I set up a record player. Ears got paid in a box of LPs for a moving job. I sifted through, saw Patti Smith and thought 'it's time a...

At what point do we develop schtick? Like, smiling on cue, playing to crowds, hedging our bets, making devils bargains? We will contest it ...

Huh. that's the first thing I've ever not found on wikipedia, ever

She had hardly done any writing lately – ... I asked her what the problem was. ‘I call it summing up,’ she said with a cheerful squawk. Whe...

"Humankind has come a long way since its beginnings and people of the future won’t be able to imagine the barbaric early days in which ...

What is worse than Pearl Jam radio on Pandora at 3 am? Not much.  Except a fussy screaming baby who only shuts up for shitty 90s music. Than...