Assorted Ideas, Large & Small
Right Now…
Table of contents
- Right Now…
- Dream Within A Dream: Reality Phases In, Dashes Out
- Meme Advisory: Elbow Ass Distinction Disorder — EADD — Rages Across the U.S.
- Fixing America: How To Do It Really Fast
- This Is Big: Reopening New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art
- The Largest Idea
- Assorted Ideas, Large & Small That Stuck
- All Those Big Things We Don’t Know
- Is Paul Selig The Esther Hicks We Wanted…?
- What Really Happens When You Die?
- Assorted Ideas, Large & Small, In Verse…
Assorted Ideas, Large & Small came from ordinary beginnings.
Ain’t no room on board for the insincere
You’re my witness
I’m your mutineer
Mutineer/Warren Zevon
Dream Within A Dream: Reality Phases In, Dashes Out
“We could certainly slow the aging process down if it
Will Rogers
had to work its way through Congress.“
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Meme Advisory: Elbow Ass Distinction Disorder — EADD — Rages Across the U.S.
Two things you never want to see being made: One’s sausage, and the other is law.
Pat D’Addio, NYS Office of General Services
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down
Tubthumping/Chumbwamba
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Fixing America: How To Do It Really Fast
The passions do not change,
stones sweep chaos into maelstrom,
ever-pressing eddies:
To know
To find love
To be free
Omnibus 1965/ 21 Poems
A new novel…
“Jim said there were two types of people in the world, those who knew that Moby Dick was a book and those who believed it was either a venereal disease or erectile malfunction.”
From BABY, IT’S YOU, a new novel by David Stone
Love does not conquer all. Ideas do. All the world’s first something different, an idea, and it comes to life as a thing, lots of things.
Power of Now?
NOW? The moment everyone wants to be anchored in and seems so powerful is as much an illusion as is past and future. Think about it. NOW can’t even exist without them. It promotes a distorted indulgence in self without context or wisdom. It’s infantile. Wake up to the fullness of life, enjoy it all. It’s where you really live, whether you like it or not. A Million Different Things…
“This guy was such a dick, when he slept, people mistook it for erectile dysfunction.”
Observation waiting for a home….
This Is Big: Reopening New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art
There is a road, no simple highway Between the dawn and the dark of night And if you go no one may follow That path is for your steps alone Ripple, Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia
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One more reason I love Saul Bellow…
In The Life of Saul Bellow, by Zachary Leader, we learned that when Bellow’s son Greg was 2, “Bellow taught him to point first to his ass, then to his elbow, declaring him ‘Smarter than most Harvard graduates.’”
This was the origin of EADD: Ass Elbow Distinction Disorder.
You are violets with wind above them.
A child – so high – you are
A Girl, Ezra Pound
Roughly a decade ago, a pair of writer friends invited me to join them in an out on borders project. Posting ideas, that is, in a group blog, original and off the beaten path, but one that might reset a paradigm if it reached enough eyeballs.
They called it The Thirteenth Edge but never explained why. They also soon lost their enthusiasm, but I didn’t.
And from there, Assorted Ideas, Large & Small was born.
I worked on it, off and on, then moved it over here on WordPress, a better environment for anyone who loves the play of images and ideas..
The Largest Idea
Everything Is Connected
Everything is connected… It’s a fact, and facts don’t care what you think. They just sit there. Pick a fight with them. They’re not always permanent. You can bend them. Read…
Assorted Ideas, Large & Small That Stuck
They say love conquers all
You can’t start it like a car
You can’t stop it with a gun
Warren Zevon /Searching for a Heart
All Those Big Things We Don’t Know
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence saying
All we did not know.
Sagacity, Willian Rose Benet
Is Paul Selig The Esther Hicks We Wanted…?
Is Paul Selig the Esther Hicks we wanted? Contrasts are stark, but most are clearly between consistency (Selig) and contradiction (Hicks.) Read…
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
Edna St. Vincent Millay/Dirge Without Music
What Really Happens When You Die?
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
e.e. cummings/somewhere I’ve traveled gladly beyond
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Give All to Love
Around us fear, descending
Darkness of fear above
And in my heart how deep unending
Ache of love!
On the beach at fontana – James Joyce
poems penyeach
Assorted Ideas, Large & Small, In Verse…
There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.
Mark Twain
Darkness in the morning
Shadows on the land
Certain individuals
Aren’t sticking with the plan
Searching for a Heart/Warren Zevon
Now I’ve always been the kind of person that doesn’t like to trespass
But sometimes you just find yourself over the line
Brownsville Girl/Bob Dylan
Well, maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya Hallelujah/Leonard Cohen
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