SUNDAY WISDOM
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
–Bertrand Russell
February 16th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Very pertintent. Good one.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Dirty side down Yankee. You’ll be fine. Just keep driving, driver. Keep drivin.
Prophet? Surf’s up!
Be well,
February 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
So true, CRC! As always, thanks for sharing your Sunday Wisdom with us.
Cali: Prayers and thoughts have been with you. Take care, okay?
Brudda Barn, the waves are breakin’ and very surfable. Catch ya’ll on the next wave.
Happy President’s Day to everyone who reads this comment.
And so…
All For One, One For ALL
February 16th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
Thanks again CRC, I never heard of Bertrand Russell. It is never to expand the mind.
February 17th, 2009 at 10:03 am
It is never to late to expand the mind. In honor of “Honest Abe” which I read about when I was a child. A man’s wife died and he got rid of everything to start a new life without her. He gave a bookcase of books to my mother. I was the only one to read them, except for the “Silver Chalice” which my Aunt Domie took. I notice the empty place and told my mother, “I was planning on reading that when I got older, I saw the movie.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
I really appreciate that you are such an intelligent man with such mind opening poems.