Quote from Muriel Lester

How ridiculous we often are in our negations,our strutting self-importance,our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people.As though labelling a person disposed of him!-Muriel Lester

Quote from Muriel Lester

How ridiculous we often are in our negations,our strutting self-importance,our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people.As though labelling a person disposed of him!-Muriel Lester

Quote from Bear Bryant

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride----and never quit,you'll be a winner.The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.-Bear Bryant

Another quote from Janet Fitch

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.-Janet Fitch,WHITE OLEANDER.

Babies

Baby blues-Another term for postpartum depression.

Quote from Janet Fitch

Take my advice.Stay away from all broken people.-Janet Fitch,WHITE OLEANDER.

Quote from Janet Fitch

My loneliness tasted like pennies.-Janet Fitch,WHITE OLEANDER.

Quote from Deborah Wiles

Open your arms to life ! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!-Deborah Wiles

Quote from W.H.Auden

''Healing'',Papa  would tell me is not a science,but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''-W.H.Auden

Quote from John Wayne

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.Comes into us at midnight very clean.It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.-John Wayne

Quote from Andy Stanley

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.-Andy Stanley

Quote from Evinda Lepins

In order to discern truth in our hearts,we must unpack the lies.-Evinda Lepins

Quote from Bo Lozoff

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.-Bo Lozoff

Olive oil brand that you consumed in June 2019

In June 2019 you bought and finished consuming a 750 ml glass bottle of DON CAMILLO-Extra Virgin Olive Oil (All Natural)(Cholesterol Free).
                                   Packed in Italy.
                                   It was pretty good.

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

Where equality is undisputed,so also is subordination.-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Quote from Paul Tillich

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.-Paul Tillich

The northern white rhinoceros

The world's last male northern white rhino was named Sudan.He was born in Sudan and died in Kenya in March 2018.He was euthanized.
                                         The documentary film 'KIFARU'(2019) by filmmaker David Hambridge follows two Kenyan rangers as they care for the world's last male northern white rhinoceros.It is a very sad but beautiful film.It is a must-see film for anyone who loves animals.
                                         The word 'Kifaru' means rhinoceros in Swahili.

An interesting blog for self-development

www.trainyourfocus.com

Quote from Liz Carpenter

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.-Liz Carpenter

Quote from Liz Hubbard

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.-Liz Carpenter

Quote from Elbert Hubbard

The average man believes a thing first,and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion.-Elbert Hubbard

419th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Tu verras(1966)-Francoise Hardy
2.Pas gentile(1964)-Francoise Hardy
3.Les doigts dans la porte(1969)-Francoise Hardy
4.Le Crabe(1970)-Francoise Hardy
5.Surtout ne vous retournez pas(1966)-Francoise Hardy
6.Mes jours s'en vont(1966)-Francoise Hardy
7.La Parisinenne(1968)-Georges Chelon
8.Nous on s'aime(1968)-Georges Chelon
9.Merci que ce soit nous-Georges Chelon
10.De silence en silence-Georges Chelon

Quote from Facebook

I hate mosquitoes.I mean,I know I am delicious,but I don't  give out free samples.-Happy Living,FACEBOOK,June 23,2019.

Quote on egotism

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.-Marianne Moore,American poet.

Quote from George Orwell

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.-George Orwell(1903-1950)

Quote from Lydia Sigourney

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.-Lydia Sigourney

Quote from T Bone Burnett

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.-T.Bone Burnett

Quote on art

What is art?Art talks about life;it's subversive.-Tahar Rahim

Quote from Ahmed Dogan

A party,which loses its appetite for power,would unnerve voters.-Ahmed Dogan

Quote from Richard Dawkins

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.-Richard Dawkins

Quote from pacifism

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.-Adolf Hitler

Quote from Frank Swinnerton

When you have done your best for a flower,and it fails,you have some reason to be aggrieved.-Frank Swinnerton

Travel blog for busy millennials

www.themillennialrunaway.com-   Travel blog for busy millennials to have their travel cake and eat it.

Quote from John Allen Poulos

So many see themselves as aggrieved;so few see themselves as aggrievers.-John Allen Poulos

Quote from James Cook

When you are aggrieved you learn.-James Cook

Quote from Robert I.Sutton

Al great technologies are blends of other technologies.-Robert I.Sutton

Quote from Stephen Richards

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved,then we are on a healing process.-Stephen Richards

Quote from Iris Murdoch

A letter is a barrier,a reprieve,a charm against the world,an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.-Iris Murdoch

Quote on Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits.There is no reprieve,no escape.-Patti Davis

Quote on Euripides

Necessity is harsh.Fate has no reprieve.-Euripides

Quote on consciousness

Consciousness is our only reprieve from time.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Rebecca Solnit

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world,just as you are making yourself,and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.-Rebecca Solnit

Quote from Cornel West

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer.A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion;a thermometer just reflects it.-Cornel West

Quote from Kurt Vonnegut

When I write,I feel like an armless,legless man with a crayon in his mouth.-Kurt Vonnegut

Quote from Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness,subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.-Cornel West

Quote from Cornel West

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.-Cornel West

Stomach acid

Hypochlorhydria-The medical term for a low level of stomach acid.

Tavern

Tavernous-Adjective of tavern;characteristic of a tavern,like a tavern.

Quote on self-esteem

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table.It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.-Louise Hart

Quote from Beryl Markham

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.-Beryl Markham

Quote from John C.Bogle

Don't look for the needle in the haystack.Just buy the haystack!-John Bogle

Quote on imagination

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.-William Hazlitt

Quote from Paul Scott

The past becomes a texture,an ambience to our present.-Paul Scott

Quote on superstition

Superstitions add texture to life.-Ilona Andrews

Quote from David Duchovny

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.-David Duchovny

Quote from Polly Horvath

We can affect people around us so much with our moods.A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.-Polly Horvath (born 1957).

Quote from Ruth Ozeki

Print is predictable and impersonal,conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye.Handwriting,by contrast,resists the eye,reveals its meaning slowly,and is as intimate as skin.-Ruth Ozeki

Tone

Tonal-adjective of tone.

Texture

Textural-Adjective of texture.

Quote from Polly Horvath

At heart,we're all violent raging wolves,but in our actions we can be pacifists.-Polly Horvath(born 1957),author.

Quote from Mason Cooley

Theory now:concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.-Mason Cooley

Aboriginals

June 21 is National Aboriginal Day in Canada.

Quote from Janet Fitch

Find someone who will tremble for your touch,someone whose fingers are a poem.-Janet Fitch

Quote from Jane Hirshfield

In sorrow,pretend to be fearless.In happiness,tremble.-Jane Hirshfield

Quote from Cornel West

When ordinary people wake up,elites begin to tremble in their boots.-Cornel West

418th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Tu Es Mon Grand Amour(1972)-Gilles Girard
2.La Place Vide-Peggy
3.Va ton chemin-Gilles Girard
4.Qui Aime t'il vraiment-Francoise Hardy
5.Ton Meilleur Ami(1962)-Francoise Hardy
6.Il Est Tout Pour Moi-Francoise Hardy
7.J'ai jeté mon cœur(1962)-Francoise Hardy
8.Nous étions amies(1964)-Francoise Hardy
9.Nous Tous-Francoise Hardy
10.Il est parti un jour(1962)-Francoise Hardy

Quote on art

Art is fueled by rebellion:the need,in some amounting to obsessions,to resist what is,to defy one's elders,even to the point of ostracism;to define oneself,and, by extension one's generation,as new,novel,ungovernable.-Joyce Carol Oates

Quote from John Steinbeck

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism-either a man emerges determined to be better,purer and kindlier or he goes bad,challenges the world and does even worse things.The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.-John Steinbeck

Quote from Derek Jarman

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.-Derek Jarman

Keeping cool in summer

Wearing light-colored,loose-fitting,lightweight clothes helps us dissipate heat and stay cool in summer.

Blood pressure

High blood pressure is a driver of heart disease in both men and women.

Quote from Helen Fisher

Throughout evolution,ostracism was death indeed.-Helen Fisher

Quote on pariah

A pariah is something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.-Rita Mae Brown

Song from Mel Tillis you like

Coca Cola COwboy-song by Mel Tillis

Fact about permafrost

Nearly 50% of Canada's land mass rests on permafrost in 2018.

Quote from Carol Matthau

The dying process begins the minute we are born,but it accelerates during dinner parties.-Carol Matthau

Quote from Edmund Waller

Vexed sailors cursed for rain,
for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.-Edmund Waller

Quote from Dorothy L.Sayers

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.-Dorothy L.Sayers

Quote from Henry David Thoreau

Decay and disease are often beautiful like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.-Henry David Thoreau

Quote on ideals

Ideals,that gaudy coloring matter of passion,fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge.Ideals,like mountains,are best at a distance.-Ellen Glasgow

Quote from Mitch Hedburg

Cavities are made by sugar so if you need to dig a hole,then lay down some candy bars!-Mitch Hedburg

Quote from Groucho Marx

I hope all your teeth have cavities.And don't forget:Abscess makes the heart grow fonder.-Groucho Marx

Quote on actors

Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into the cavities of the movie-going public.-Alec Baldwin,American actor.

Some songs by Ned Miller that you like

1.Snowflakes-Ned Miller
2.Ring on the Bar-Ned Miller
3.Sing Me A Picture-Ned Miller
4.A Memory For Tomorrow-Ned Miller
5.Sunday Morning Tears-Ned Miller
6.I Had Your Love For A While(1965)-Ned Miller
7.Endless-Ned Miller
8.One Among The Many-Ned Miller
9.Go On Back,You Fool-Ned Miller

Quote from William Greider

If every one has to be a watchdog in order to make the government work,then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.-William Greider

Quote from Oliver Goldsmith

The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering Wind,
and the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.-Oliver Goldsmith

Quote on the auditor

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.-Lord Justice Topes

Quote from Carl Sandburg

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline.The two are lost in a purple haze.One forgets,one waits.-Carl Sandburg

Quote from Orson Welles

There are three intolerable things in life-cold coffee,lukewarm champagne,and overexcited women.-Orson Welles

Quote from Max Lerner

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics.Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.-Max Lerner

Quote on opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.-Samuel Butler

Quote on Doug Flutie

A guy that's undersized has to prove himself right away.-Doug Flutie

Quote on dogs

Dogs are our link to paradise.They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.-Milan Kundera

Quote from E.E.Cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.-E.E.Cummings

Quote from Karl Reiland

In about the same degree as you are helpful,you will be happy.-Karl Reiland

Quote from Thomas Piketty

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.-Thomas Piketty

Quote from Robert McCammon

I learned at an early age that outsized egos can destroy whatever they touch,and often stupid people stand in the way of any kind of creativity.-Robert McCammon

Quote from Thomas Piketty

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.-Thomas Piketty (born 1971),French economist.

Quote on democracy

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts--and that is a very good thing.-Thomas Piketty

Quote from Debby Boone

Dreams are the seeds of change.Nothing ever grows without a seed,and nothing ever changes without a dream.-Debbie Boone

Good song from Justin Rutledge

The Old Oak-Song by Justin Rutledge

Quote from Grant Cardone

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness.However,I can assure you from personal experience that you'll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.-Grant Cardone

Quote from Joe Strummer

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees.-Joe Strummer

Quote from Craig D.Lounsbrough

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom.Rather,it is the staleness of our attitude.-Craig D.Lounsbrough

Quote on opinion

Too often,opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias.And as I stare through my own lens,I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?-Craig D.Lounsbrough

Quote from Florence Griffith Joyner

A muscle is like a car.If you want it to run well early in the morning,you have to warm it up.-Florence Griffith Joyner

Quote from Thomas Piketty

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.-Thomas Piketty

Quote on speeches

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.-Joe Strummer(1952-2002)

Quote from Joe Strummer

The way you get a better world is,you don't put up with substandard anything.-Joe Strummer

Quote from Stanley Hauerwas

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives,but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.-Stanley Hauerwas

Quote from Judy Garland

We cast away priceless time in dreams,born of imagination,fed upon illusion,and put to death by reality.-Judy Garland

Quote from Andrew Goodman

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.-Andrew Goodman

Heating in Kabul

Kabul,the capital of Afghanistan,has one of the worst problems of air pollution of all cities in the world in 2018.
                      A lot of poor people in Kabul  and also other cities around the world use substandard fuel to heat their homes.
                      Many poor people in Kabul burn rubber tyres,rubber shoes and food scraps to heat their homes in winter.

Quote from Raymond Federman

Most love stories are nocturnal.That's what makes them so fascinating.-Raymond Federman

Quote from Raymond Federman

Plots are for dead people.-Raymond Federman(1928-2009),novelist.

A superb song that I love listening to

The Ballad of Hank McCain-John Zorn and Mike Patton.(Mike Patton with the vocals).
                                        Mike Patton has a beautiful,beautiful sensual voice.

Quote from Andrew Goodman

The road to freedom must be uphill,even if it is arduous and frustrating.-Andrew Goodman

Quote on fear

Fear is the brother of hate.-Larry Niven

Quote on the global village

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.-Marshall McLuhan

Quote on friendship

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.-Mortimer Adler

Quote on dinosaurs

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.-Larry Niven

Quote from Larry Niven

Never fire a laser at a mirror.-Larry Niven

Quote from Larry Niven

Half of wisdom is knowing what to unlearn.-Larry Niven

Quote from Scott Hastie

The searing light of morning
Asks unwelcome questions,
Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.-Scott Hastie

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote on photography

Thanks to photography,some memories overstay their welcome.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Edith Summerskill

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.-Edith Summerskill

Quote on superstition

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.-George Iles

Three old songs I like

1.The Swiss Bellringer(1950)-Kenny Gardner
2.Strange Love(1945)-Anita Ellis
3.Speak Low(1944)-Anita Ellis.(Lyrics by Ogden Nash)

Quote from Abigail Adams

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.-Abigail Adams

Quote from Robert Stone

The desires of the heart---are as crooked as a corkscrew.-Robert Stone

Two old,old songs that you like

1.Copper Canyon(1950)-Bing Crosby
2.Tallahassee(1947)-Vaughn Monroe

Quote from Roger Enrico

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things.Rather,make big changes to big things.-Roger Enrico

Mountain in India

Q.What is the second highest mountain in India and the highest located entirely in India?
Answer.Nanda Devi.

Quote from Criss Jami

Peculiar I say,how so often the smallest,most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.-Criss Jami,HEALOLOGY.

Quote from Richie Norton

Big picture dreams broken down into smaller,more manageable parts unveil the steps that lead you to where you want to go.-Richie Norton

Cortsol

When we feel threatened or under pressure,we secrete more cortisol.Cortisol is the stress hormone.Cortisol undermines the immune system and weakens the digestive system.
                               When we feel fear or are anxious,we secrete more cortisol.

Quote from Kin Hubbard

Peace has its victories no less than war,but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.-Kin Hubbard

Quote from Euripides

Time will unveil all things to posterity.-Euripides

Quote from Anthony Liccione

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.-Anthony Liccione

Quote on courage

Courage cannot be unveiled without reality.-Munia Khan

Quote from Anais Nin

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives.At the end they are always punished.-Anais Nin

Quote on apocalypse

Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.-Barbara Marx Hubbard

Quote on writing

Writing is both mask and unveiling.-E.B.White

Quote from Criss Jami

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon,it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.-Criss Jami

Quote from Riz Ahmed

Bandwagons roll through our lives.It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.-Riz Ahmed

Quote from Patti Maes

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems,and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.-Patti Maes

Quote from Roger Enrico

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea,a leader should be working on the next one.-Roger Enrico

Quote from Ben Cohen

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.-Ben Cohen

Quote from Heather Mizeur

Shouldn't we be the light brigades rather than the bandwagon?-Heather Mizeur

Quote from Adam Osborne

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.-Adam Osborne

Quote from James Goldsmith

If you see a bandwagon,it's too late.-James Goldsmith

Quote from Paul Quarrington

The sunlight plays across his face like oïl on a hot skillet.-Paul Quarrington,CIVILIZATION(1994),page 144.

Quote from Patti Smith

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.-Patti Smith

Great song by Nick Drake

Northern Sky-song by Nick Drake

Quote from Ronald Blythe

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing,but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.-Ronald Blythe

Quote from Georgina Chapman

Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.-Georgina Chapman

Quote on sleep

Sleep,that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.-Virginia Woolf

Tuition

Tuitional-Adjective of tuition;relating to tuition.

Tutor

Tutelary-Having the qualities of a tutor;adjective of tutor.

Quote from John Erskine

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to decision without information.-John Erskine

Quote from Ovid

Laws exist to curtail the power of the strongest.-Ovid