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Oh, sweet irony!

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Trying to save our marriage and perhaps catch a few fish Whatever came first John Prine We only had one John Prine and it still hurts that he’s gone. #JohnPrine

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The evidence is very strong.

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Letting billionaires or millionaires (or folks with mental health challenges) run the country wasn’t such a good idea, now was it?

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I am stuck between two responses to almost everything these days: What the F are you doing? Or Sweet irony.

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Is it depression if the world really is going to hell in a hand basket?

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The most beautiful, saddest breakup LP ever released. My heart crumbles every time I hear it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_...

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Self-pitying does nobody any good, including the self-pitier. There’s something to be done, no matter how desperate & frustrating it seems. Looking in the mirror. Buck up Buttercup, put on a beanie and go. #answers

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Good idea. Long overdue.

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…I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely….It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.—Henry Thoreau

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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.—Kurt Vonnegut I feel like Billy a lot these days. I’m not sure how to find a footing in the world, when every anchor seems to have worked loose. Up is down, right has been corrupted, and this day feels like it’s drifting. So it goes.

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And where are the clowns Quick send in the clowns Don't bother they're here Stephen Sondheim Sometimes, you can’t really make this up. The world has turned into a poorly-run mess, and we’ve been overrun by morons and ne’erdowells. We’re looking in the wrong direction for answers.

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Never, never forget.

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How Orwellian!

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There being nothing to improve on in the surroundings, the tendency is to set about improving oneself. Henry Miller

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And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonopah …Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed Lowell George I take most of my travel directions from Little Feat.

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In these troubled times I go inside and start a fire. Jim Harrison Not ostrich in the sand, and not fatalistic, but contemplating a bit less worrisome in the flames.

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There's a feeling I get when I look to the West And my spirit is crying for leaving Robert Plant Or, as Hunter Thompson wrote: …you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark…

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Joy! shipmate—joy! Walt Whitman

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We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little living mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Edward Abbey

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“I absolutely loathe pineapple on a pizza.” Francis Wolf Thank goodness there are others with sense and taste! #BadPizza nypost.com/2025/01/13/l...

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Do you see what I'm seeing? That you're another one alone And do these lines upon my paper Say you're someone that I've known? Kate Wolf I still miss Kate Wolf. I think about her when I think of California. She helped me make sense of my home state, even though I haven’t lived there for years.

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“small adaptive life”. It seems time for all of us to wrestle with our shadow. There’s work to do.

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Live not by lies. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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In 1976 I was 18 & got to vote. Proudly, I voted for Jimmy Carter. I’m going to spend some time thinking of Jimmy, commemorating a life, & try to think less about current affairs. Better & worse are always relative; I’ll hope.

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The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. Alvin Toffler I’m not completely sure what’s wrong with us, but I’ve got some ideas.

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comedy of farce—Jimmy Carter on the relations between Congress and White House

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What hump? Igor

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Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. Henry David Thoreau

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The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out. Samuel Beckett

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Out there somewhere a shrine for the old ones, the dust of the old bones, old songs and tales. Gary Snyder www.wenaus.org/poetry/gs-ol...

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These figures recur—singing without words. #haiku

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…let us continue to be seekers of each other's stories and penetrate the godawful silos that drive us apart. David Axelrod

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All my life a loner, an outsider, a barbarian from the steppes, the wolf on the snow-covered hill looking down at the lights of the village, I think I've never been accepted by my fellow men, fellow women, never been a bona fide member of the club. Edward Abbey

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those who live here all year round listen to the irresistible voice of loneliness and want only to be left alone Richard Shelton www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richar...

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Sweet irony.

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If anyone wants to spy on me with a drone, can you also bring me a pizza with extra pepperoni - thanks.

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“It's a mercenary territory I wish you knew the story I've did my time in that rodeo It's been so long and I've got nothing to show” Lowell George It’s a colder world these days. It’s always time to “saddle up the palomino” but I’m not sure about the way ahead.

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I am right here with you. No more diving or clenching. You put it well, and I hope it resonates with many others.

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Are you more aware today? Are you smarter today than you were? Do you know a bit better how the world works? These are questions I ask my own darned self, but I seem to filter what I see and hear and read through these same questions. I had some setbacks, but there’s still work to do.

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As we learn more, we should (need to) do better. Fundamental, yet seemingly lost in our larger culture. Slow down, think about it, and make better decisions. Not rocket science, but not ascendant. Less me, and more us.

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I’m sure that everyone should read this book. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a poet, scientist, educator—very wise person. It seems hard to describe briefly. She has left me with much to think about, and I think most of us would be better if we spent time with this book.

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I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in. Jerzy Kosiński

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I think I might be going crazy. A thought that rattles around in my brain pan all too often these days.

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