Quote from Colleen Wainwright

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend.Funny how that works.-Colleen Wainwright

Quote from Max Lerner

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another.-Max Lerner

Quote from Fridtjof Nansen

Hope is a rickety craft to trust one's self to.-Fridtjof Nansen

Quote from William Zinsser

If your nails are weak,your house will collapse.If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety,your sentences will fall apart.-William Zinsser

Quote from Isaac Asimov

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable,which is exactly what is needed for life.-Isaac Asimov

Quote from Eleanor Perenyi

[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.-Eleanor Perenyi

Quote from Christina Baldwin

Change is the constant,the signal for rebirth,the egg of the phoenix.-Christina Baldwin

Quote on laughter

Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.-Cathleen Falsani

Quote from Hubert Butler

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work,and beauty can grow out of nonsense.-Hubert Butler

Quote on ridicule

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.-Vanna Bonta

Quote on life

Life itself is a rickety building.-William Golding

Quote on courage

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.-John Wayne

Quote from John W.Gardner

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery-crocus on a garbage heap.-John W.Gardner

Coffee

My broomstick runs on coffee.-from the Facebook page of Larry Frampton,October 24,2021.

Another Maureen Evans song that I like

Love,Kisses&Heartaches(1960)-song by Maureen Evans.

Strong leaf

One of the strongest leafs in the world,Victoria Water Lily,is capable of holding up a human.

Quote from Babe Ruth

I have only one superstition.I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.-Babe Ruth

Another obscure song from 1963 that I like

Pick The Petals(1963)-song by Maureen Evans.

Beautiful,underappreciated song from 1963 that I just heard on radio

Acapulco Mexico(1963)-song by Maureen Evans.(The song starts with the lines 'In Acapulco Mexico/I lost my heart not long ago')

Quote from Kent Nerburn

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.-Kent Nerburn

Quote from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Quote from Jeanette Winterson

Art does not imitate life.Art anticipates life.-Jeanette Winterson

Quote on advertising

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted;the trouble is I don't know which half.-John Wanamaker

Quote from Alan Watts

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.-Alan Watts

Clouds

Some people are like clouds.Once they disappear It's a beautiful day.-Minions word of wisdom

Quote from Lucille Clifton

---What we will become waits in us like an ache.-Lucille Clifton

Push ups

I'm not good at situps,pull ups or push ups,but I'm good at screw ups!-from the Facebook page of Jeffrey Hanson,October 17,2018.

Coffee slogan

At the end of my rainbow is a pot of coffee.-slogan seen on T-shirt,also post on the Facebook page of Larry Frampton(of San Antonio),September 24,2021

Quote from Hermann Hesse

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of, our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.Hermann Hesse

Quote from Simone de Beauvoir

I was made for another planet altogether.I mistook the way.-Simone de Beauvoir

Quote on memory

Memory itself is a form of architecture.-Louise Bourgeois

Quote from Pat Conroy

Writing is the only way I have to explain my life to myself.-Pat Conroy

Reno,Nevada

Reno,Nevada once called itself 'The Divorce Capital of the World.'

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is a tropical island with lush vegetation;it receives a lot of rain.Its coast is flat but its interior is mountainous;the mountains in Puerto Rico are not high but they are steep.Puerto Rico in 2021 is plagued with frequent blackouts.

Caffeine

Support your local caffeine dealers.-from the Facebook page of Larry Frampton,September 2,2021.

Seen on a T-shirt

Message seen on a T-shirt: Obsessive Coffee Disorder,-from the Facebook page of Larry Frampton,August 24,2021.

Quote from Maye Musk

Teach your children good manners,but let them decide what they want.-Maye Musk,Elon Musk's mother.

Great African proverb

The sheep will spend its entire life fearing the wolf,only to be eaten by the shepherd.-African proverb

Kidnap

Kidnap is such an ugly word.I prefer the term Surprise Adoption.--From the Facebook page of Dale Herring,October 18,2021.

Wild pigs

Wild pigs are huge,invasive and very hard to catch.They eat plants,tear up the soil,rip up trees;they are omnivores;they eat ground nesting birds like goslings and ducks.

                                      They are well-adapted to the cold and spend a lot of time in winter under the snow,under the soil  and under spruce trees.

                                       They spread disease and cause crop damage.They hide under willows  and use crops as hiding cover.

                                            Wild pigs foul water ecosystems.They have no sweat glands and to cool down in the summer heat they wallow in wetlands and lakes;water quality in lakes and wetlands suffers as a result and e-coli can be spread.  

Quote on poets

A poet is, before anything else a person who is passionately in love with language.-W.H.Auden

Seen on a coffee cup

Seen on a coffee cup:YOU'RE BREW-TIFUL.-from the Facebook page oF Larry Frampton,August 21,2021.

Quote from Ed Catmull

To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure,we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth.Left.-Ed Catmull

Giant otters

Giant 6 foot otters still exist in the remote river systems of South America.They hunt in packs and can even take on crocodiles.

Binge sleeping

Binge sleeping is basically to sleep to pass long amounts of time even though one is not actually tired.Binge sleeping is also to sleep for certain amounts of time until the person or persons forgets something and/or it is no longer on their mind.Binge sleeping could also be what happens when someone is depressed and feels the need for exaggerated amounts of sleep.

Hummingbirds

Humming birds use hawks as bodyguards.They often build their nests under hawk nests to seek protection from jays,the biggest threats to their eggs and babies.Hawks like to stalk their prey from above,so jays avoid foraging below them,creating a '' safety zone'' for hummingbird nests.

Passing stool

Passing stool immediately after a meal is usually the result of the gastrocolic reflex,which is a normal bodily reaction to food entering the stomach.Almost everyone will experience the effects of the gastrocolic reflex from time to time.However its intensity can vary from person to person.

Quote from Dawson Trotman

Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.-Dawson Trotman

Quote on revolution

Revolution does not insure progress.You may overturn thrones,but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?-Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Quote from Herb Brooks

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success.-Herb Brooks

Quote from Charlotte Bronte

If all the world hated you,and believed you wicked,while your conscience approved you,and absolved you from guilt,you would not be without friends.-Charlotte Bronte,JANE EYRE

Quote from Victoria Holt

We are born,we suffer,we love,we die,but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks;the seed time and the harvest come and go,but the earth remains.-Victoria Holt

Another quote from Victoria Holt

When one grows older one learns that happiness -complete and unadulterated happiness-comes only in moments,and must be recognized and savored to the full,for even in the happiest life,the complete joy is not always perfect.-Victoria Holt

Quote from Victoria Holt

Dust was dangerous,I insisted.Insects bred in it.-Victoria Holt

Quote from Tama Kieves

Your desires are not frivolous.Your desires are doorways.-Tama Kieves

Quote from David Attenborough

We often talk of saving the planet,but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves.-David Attenborough

Quote from Anne Carson

To feel anything deranges you.To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.-Anne Carson

Quote from Virginia Woolf

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes.-Virginia Woolf

Quote from Victoria Holt

Never regret.If it's good,it's wonderful.If it's bad,it's experience.-Victoria Holt

Quote from Frederick Lenz

Don't be discouraged.At times the path to truth is circuitous.The point is not to succeed,only to smile eternally.-Frederick Lenz

Quote from Evangeline Walton

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight,upward flight of a bird.-Evangeline Walton

Quote on eye contact

Eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have-forget sex-because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain,and when two people look into each other's eyes,it's brain-to-brain.-Douglas Coupland,HEY NOSTRADAMUS!

Quote from Dean Koontz

Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away.It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it.Gazing.-Dean Koontz

Quote from Shira Tamir

Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.-Shira Tamir

Quote from Victoria Holt

A man condemns himself to failure if he thinks that he won't succeed.-Victoria Holt,THE SHADOW OF THE LYNX.

Quote from Samuel Johnson

Example is always more efficacious than precept.-Samuel Johnson

Quote on second chances

Second chances do come your way.Like trains,they arrive and depart regularly.Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.-Jill A.Davis

Quote from Josh Radnor

Kindness is not about instant gratification.More often,it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.-Josh Radnor

Quote from Edith Stein

Every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.-Edith Stein

Quote from Sylvia Plath

She is in love with the beautiful formlessness of the sea.-Sylvia Plath

Quote on creativity

Creativity works on a winding,circuitous route.-Gail Z.Martin

Quote from Meg Wolitzer

You have to actually love writing,because the gratifications can be few and far between.-Meg Wolitzer

Quote from Anne Carson

Love makes you an anthropologist of your own life.-Anne Carson,PLAINWATER.

Quote from Ed Norton

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion,not an ambition.-Ed Norton

Empty office towers in Calgary

Some people want to repurpose empty office towers in Calgary in 2021 and turn empty offices into vertical agriculture projects.They want to turn vacant office towers into farms,automated multi-storey greenhouses where one can grow fruits and vegetables year-round.

                               Some vacant downtown Calgary office buildings are being converted into low-income social housing.

                                 And other people want to turn empty office towers into art space or university  lecture halls.---Adversity breeds creativity.

Global coffee supply

Most years more than a third of the world's coffee supply comes from Brazil.

Quote on the money machine

What does the money machine eat?It eats youth;spontaneity,life,beauty,and above all,it eats creativity.It eats quality and shits quantity.-William S.Burroughs

Quote from tinybuddha.com

Let them be wrong about you.There's nothing to prove.-tinybuddha.com

Quote from Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible,horrible,horrible.-Bertrand Russell

Taiwan

Taiwan has been self-ruled since it split from mainland China in 1949.

Witch windows

''Witch windows'' or diagonal windows,exist almost exclusively in Vermont.The name comes from the superstition that witches cannot fly their broom sticks through slanted windows.

Swacket

Swacket-A swacket is the love child of a sweater and a jacket;it is a sweater jacket.

Quote from Edward Abbey

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.-Edward Abbey

Quote from William Penn

Force may subdue,but love gains,and he that forgives first wins the laurel.-William Penn

Quote from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The loneliness you get by the seas is personal and alive.It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject.It's stimulating loneliness.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Water stress

2 billion people around the world are exposed to water stress in 2021;they have a lack of clean drinking water and water for agriculture.

                             According to a report released in October 2021,5 billion people around the world won't have adequate access to water by 2050.

Hypergraphia

Hypergraphia-The driving compulsion to write;the overwhelming urge to write.Hypergraphia may make someone to keep a voluminous journal,to jot off frequent letters to the editor,to write on toilet paper if nothing else is available,and perhaps even to compile a dictionary.

Algorithms of Facebook

The algorithms of Facebook amplify political polarisation,religious polarisation and racial polarisation.

Hyperlexia

Hyperlexia is when a child starts reading early and surprisingly beyond their expected ability.

Knocking

If someone knocks on your door,knock back from the inside.They'll go away.Trust me on this.-from the Facebook page of Robert Kaplan,October 3,2021

Quote from William S.Burroughs

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.-William S.Burroughs

Insightful quote from Leo Tolstoy

If you feel pain,you're alive.If you feel other people's pain,you're a human being.-Leo Tolstoy

Quote from Jenny Holzer

Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.-Jenny Holzer

Quote on one-hit wonder

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.-Seth Godin

Quote from Mason Cooley

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Cornelia Funke

He closed the window,and the scents of the past again flooded the room,like a bunch of wilted flowers.-Cornelia Funke

People who are scared of spiders

If you are an arachnophobe,use walnuts to get rid of spiders-Keep your home spider-free by putting out whole walnuts in their shell in corners,or windowsills,or wherever you tend to see the creepy crawlers.Walnut shells contain a chemical toxic to spiders,so they'll steer clear of them.

Quote from David Nicholls

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water.Why not let it die instead?-David Nicholls

Quote on compassion

Compassion nourishes the wilted heart.-Jana Fayne Kolpen

Quote on Americans

Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides,preferably a little wilted.-Raymond Chandler

Quote from Barry Eisler

The hawk with talent hides its talons.-Barry Eisler

Quote on love

Love has the face of a goddess,but the talons of a lion.-Ivan Panin

Quote from B.Fox

When life hands you wilted lettuce,make lettuceade.-B.Fox

Quote from Boyd K.Packer

The word discipline sometimes touches a slightly rebellious chord in our natures.Remember that it comes from the word disciple.-Boyd K.Packer

Quote from Nikki Rowe

What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances.-Nikki Rowe

Quote from B.W,Powe

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.-B.P.Powe

Quote from Veronica Rossi

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.-Veronica Rossi

Quote on obedience

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.-George Bernard Shaw

MIxing vinegar with this is dangerous

Bleach and vinegar should never be mixed because in the reaction chlorine gas is released,and this can be deadly.

Lava

When lava cools down it forms a glassy material called obsidian.

Quote from Andrew Miller

The robot learns to love.A single,oily tear leaks down his cheek.We don't know whether he's crying or just needs maintenance.-Andrew Miller

Mexico

In 1938,Mexico was the only country that protested the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.To honor that support,Austria built a square called Mexikoplatz in the capital Vienna.

Chinese proverb

Every smile makes you a day younger.-Chinese proverb

Quote from Vance Havner

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.-Vance Havner

Quote from Clifford Stoll

If we built houses the way we built software,the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.-Clifford Stoll

Quote on the ego

The ego is kind of a big,unwieldy thing.It's not so easily tamed or subdued.-Alan Ball

Quote from Washington Irving

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune,but great minds rise above them.-Washington Irving

Quote from Richard Baxter

While doubt cannot be expelled,it can be subdued.-Richard Baxter

Quote from Sophie Swetchine

Feeling loves a subdued light.-Sophie Swetchine

Quote from Lionel Shriver

10 and 64 feel sort of the same.-Lionel Shriver