Quotes of the Day -- On Wishes

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Robert Frost

Quote of the Day -- On the Political Illiterate

Get involved. Be involved. Stay involved. Be aware.

And yes, vote.



Links:

Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia

Bertolt Brecht | German dramatist | Britannica.com

Bertolt Brecht - Theatre Database

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht | Poetry Foundation

A Seemingly Timely Reminder

A friend on FB reminded me of this today. It seems, again, very timely.

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

--William Butler Yeats,  (1865-1939)

Quote of the Day -- On Living

With Mr. Trump soon to be in office, and the Republicans in control of Congress in Washington and 32 of the 50 statehouses, we'll have to lean heavily on the "hate tyrants" part.

Have a great day, y'all and keep warm.