Medicare requires that question. Falling is a kind of indicator, red flag, warning sign.... A while back I took a tumble off a short stepladder at my design wall. Usually when I felt my balance going, I could just hop backward and land safely on the floor, but that time my foot caught in one of the steps, and I went down, grabbing futilely at the worktable, which also overturned (complete with the full water glass, which miraculously did not break,) and ending up flat on my back, with a mighty crash. Don rushed in, but stood back at my request. As I slowly extricated myself from the wreckage, he commented, "You know, you're going to have to tell the doctor about this next time you se her." (sigh)
“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”
Don’t look for premiums or coupons, as the cost of the thoughts blended in ORANGE CRATE ART pro- hibits the use of them.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right I turn around and I give it one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
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Fallen for what?
(heh-heh)
Medicare requires that question. Falling is a kind of indicator, red flag, warning sign.... A while back I took a tumble off a short stepladder at my design wall. Usually when I felt my balance going, I could just hop backward and land safely on the floor, but that time my foot caught in one of the steps, and I went down, grabbing futilely at the worktable, which also overturned (complete with the full water glass, which miraculously did not break,) and ending up flat on my back, with a mighty crash. Don rushed in, but stood back at my request. As I slowly extricated myself from the wreckage, he commented, "You know, you're going to have to tell the doctor about this next time you se her."
(sigh)
Sigh is right. Thank goodness you came out okay.
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