"Why work for peanuts when you can strive for randomness." -Jeff Slepski, human physiology teacher, Hemet High School, 1982 Yes, I went...

"Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie And my head in the cool blue north" -Jesse Winchester The view from my office window isn't...

"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it." - Robert Baden-Powell Pondering on this insomnia...

"Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be...

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe About to start a mediation I had on my...

"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies." - Rudyard Kipling Back at my computer for the first time...

On the turning away From the pale and downtrodden And the words they say Which we won't understand Don't accept that what's happening Is...

Waiting to cut out the deadwood. Waiting to clean up the city. Waiting to follow the worms. Waiting to put on a black shirt. Waiting to...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." - Seneca First day working in my new office up at what Dio and Peg are...

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H. P....

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” ― Winston S. Churchill Happy Monday....

"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness." - Marcus Tullius Cicero Sitting on the...

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." - Buddha Back at Tara, and the place is a chaotic, filthy mess....

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as...

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other." - Paul...

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson...

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse The movers came yesterday. The took pretty...

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it." - Winston Churchill I've followed with some interest the air...

"Hope will never be silent." - Harvey Milk Overcast and 64 with a little mist. Welcome to the second half of June in upstate NY. One...

That's great, it starts with an earthquake Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes And Lenny Bruce is not afraid Eye of a hurricane, listen to...