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dilemma (a quote from Sarah Vowell)

20 Monday Jun 2016

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absurdity, fame, family, fatherhood, history, parenthood, quotation, sarah vowell

“While history might be full of exemplary fathers, recorded history is not where to find them.” –Sarah Vowell

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don’t know (a tweet)

27 Wednesday May 2015

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Why, always, this contest of who hurts the most?

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(photo: George Segal’s sculpture, “The Curtain”)

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.

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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.
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chagrin (a tweet)

27 Tuesday May 2014

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absurdity, acceptance, arrogance, comfort, god, grace, grief, imbalance, surrender, tweet, zen

In hard times especially, I find myself confronted by my trademark absurdity: that I’m far more desirous that god should know me than that I should know god.

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apt quote (from Robert Hass)

10 Thursday Apr 2014

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absurdity, ego, imbalance, quotations, serenity, wisdom, writing, zen

It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
― Robert Hass

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absurd (a quote from Albert Camus)

24 Monday Mar 2014

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The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits.   –Albert Camus

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