Archives - March 2020

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

You can't beat ideas --- political, social, economic or religious --- with implements.

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and --- I can't remember what the third thing is.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen --- that stillness becomes a radiance.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.