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My latest axiom: When in doubt, do the moral thing.
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27 Saturday Jul 2019
Posted in politics, random thought, twitter tweets, zen
Category Archives: twitter tweets
managing randomness (a tweet)
11 Thursday May 2017
Posted in random thought, twitter tweets
When we view the night sky we have two basic choices: to be dumbstruck by infinite chaos, or to superimpose a mythology.
prayer (a tweet, I guess)
04 Thursday May 2017
Posted in Evolving ideas, twitter tweets, zen
miracles (a twitter tweet)
09 Thursday Feb 2017
Posted in twitter tweets, zen
fear (a tweet)
22 Tuesday Nov 2016
Posted in twitter tweets, Uncategorized
catching up to myself (a tweet)
17 Wednesday Aug 2016
Posted in twitter tweets, zen
random solace (a tweet)
23 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in random thought, twitter tweets
tweet (a tweet)
23 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in twitter tweets
lucky (a tweet)
22 Wednesday Jun 2016
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I feel “lucky” only once I realize I’ve been lucky all along. After all, luck’s the sort of thing that has precisely, and only, the meaning I give it.
for all we know (a tweet)
21 Tuesday Jun 2016
Posted in twitter tweets, zen
a good start (a tweet)
20 Monday Jun 2016
Posted in twitter tweets
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acceptance, crazy, happiness, love, randomness, serenity, tweet, zen
At the point when I no longer care whether it’s me who’s crazy, or everybody else–that’s when life gets interesting.
zen trick (a tweet)
30 Saturday Apr 2016
Posted in twitter tweets
knowing (a tweet)
14 Thursday Apr 2016
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acceptance, apophenia, balance, comfort, freedom, grace, grief, paradox, suffering, thinking out loud, transience, tweet, zen
The knowing is beautiful. Thus, the struggle that brought you the knowing–mustn’t that also be beautiful?
clumsy (a tweet)
11 Monday Apr 2016
Posted in random thought, twitter tweets, zen
serendipity (a tweet)
10 Sunday Apr 2016
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Never mind that we’re lost: it turns out that paradise is a place most easily found by accident.
different (a quote + artwork from Khalil Lake)
21 Monday Mar 2016
Posted in autism, quotation, twitter tweets, zen
“As a student with multiple disabilities, Google looks a little differently to me.” Khalil Lake, Emerald High School, South Carolina. (2016 State and Territory “Doodle 4 Google” winner, grades 10-12)
https://www.google.com/doodle4google/gallery.html#d=5-8
glorious (an extended tweet)
14 Monday Mar 2016
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apophenia, coincidence, randomness, serendipity, writing, zen
Serendipity is a manifold gift from the blue. “Facilitating serendipity”—really just a synonym for “paying attention,” I think–is a glorious practice. It lets us pluck delicious fruit from random orchards.
why not
26 Saturday Dec 2015
Posted in random thought, twitter tweets, zen
dangerous (a tweet)
14 Monday Dec 2015
Posted in twitter tweets, zen
the moment (a tweet)
28 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in random thought, twitter tweets, zen
rant (a tweet)
31 Friday Jul 2015
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Is this how it always is? We move forward only by slogging along, all but halted by brutes who cling, kicking & ranting, to our ankles?
serendipity (a tweet)
28 Tuesday Jul 2015
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Serendipity is the everyday practice of expanding peripheral vision.
advantage (a tweet)
19 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in twitter tweets
anyone (tweet in reply to a tweet)
31 Sunday May 2015
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True. But I never met anyone, poet or not, who hasn’t felt or won’t someday soon feel terrible pain. Poets just *use* it, is all.
don’t know (a tweet)
27 Wednesday May 2015
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Why, always, this contest of who hurts the most?
(photo: George Segal’s sculpture, “The Curtain”)
will (a tweet)
12 Sunday Apr 2015
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I find I have to believe in free will, whether it exists or not. Otherwise, I think I’d just go back to bed right now.
not one (a tweet)
06 Monday Apr 2015
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sparks (a tweet)
03 Friday Apr 2015
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In the midst of all this, how strange to recall that our rages are firefly sparks when compared to the sun’s.
obstacle (a tweet)
23 Monday Mar 2015
Posted in twitter tweets
life hack (a tweet)
14 Sunday Dec 2014
Posted in twitter tweets
fact (a tweet)
14 Sunday Dec 2014
Posted in twitter tweets
the same (a tweet)
14 Sunday Dec 2014
Posted in twitter tweets, Uncategorized
soothing (a tweet)
09 Tuesday Dec 2014
Posted in twitter tweets
realization (a tweet)
27 Monday Oct 2014
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autism, comfort, helplessness, loss, randomness, surrender, thinking out loud, zen
I let go of “why” not in a moment’s choice, but slowly, via years of listening, lonesome, to its unrequited echo.
forever (a tweet)
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
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balance, both, eternity, gabby douglas, infinity, moment, now, paradox, transience
There’s only now, of course. But now is an infinity unto itself. Now is forever in a moment.
peace (a tweet) (haiku)
22 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in haiku, poem, twitter tweets
reminder: stay surprisable (a tweet)
18 Thursday Sep 2014
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absurdity, apophenia, autism, both, coincidence, happiness, illusion, miracle, paradox, randomness, serendipity, surprise, surrender, zen
If I’m not careful, I’ll waste an absurd amount of time finding only those things I’m already looking for.
breathe (a quotation from Virgil) (a tweet)
17 Wednesday Sep 2014
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acceptance, autism, comfort, grace, helplessness, metaphor, quotation, surrender, transience, tweet
On a day like this I breathe a weary mantra:
“Hug the shore; let others try the deep.” –Virgil
both (quotation by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
14 Thursday Aug 2014
Posted in autism, quotation, twitter tweets
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acceptance, autism, black swan, both, compassion, death, empathy, grace, Hannah, happiness, illusion, imbalance, letting go, loss, motherhood, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, play, quotation, randomness, surrender, transience, tweet, union, yin yang, zen
“Love without sacrifice is like theft.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#peace (a tweet)
01 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in twitter tweets
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