Emerson on the books we read
Posted: January 12, 2020 Filed under: books, people, time and space, writers Leave a commentLong ago & far away
Posted: June 15, 2019 Filed under: people, photography, places, time, time and space 1 CommentThe House of Opium in the Golden Triangle
Posted: May 11, 2018 Filed under: people, photography, sight seeing, time and space Leave a commentThe Qatar airport in Doha
Posted: April 13, 2018 Filed under: places, time and space Leave a commentMore Backwoods Churches
Posted: September 30, 2017 Filed under: photography, places, states of mind, time and space Leave a commentChaos In The Gum Machine
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Posted: July 24, 2017 Filed under: photography, time and space Leave a comment
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey –
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter–
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular…
– T. S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Epictetus on the senses
Posted: October 29, 2016 Filed under: people, states of mind, time and space, writers Leave a comment“For as the carpenter’s material is wood, and that of the statuary is copper, so the matter of the art of living is each man’s life…
“The question at stake,” said Epictetus, “is no common one; it is this:—Are we in our senses, or are we not?”
– Excerpt From: Epictetus. “A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion.”