So much going on good, bad, or worse in the world today. Stressed about the future and what happens after the 20th. So its 40 in Rochester, and we have had a gentle rain all day. Did you take time to walk in the rain today? You should! Its refreshing and not to wet. When the temperature is 90 in July and August and there is no rain in sight, you will be dreaming of a day like today. Cool, but not to cold, and wet.
© words by Dan DeMarle 2017
When walking, it is good to check, from time to time, what we are walking on. What is the foundation of your life? Where does it lie?
11/30/16 Montreal Canada
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“No sooner was I safely among the gravestones than a great feeling of warmth and calm contentment came sweeping over me.
Life among the dead.
This was where I was meant to be!
What a revelation! And what a place to have it!
I could succeed at whatever I chose. I could, for instance, become an undertaker. Or a pathologist. A detective, a gravedigger, a tombstone maker, or even the world’s greatest murderer.
Suddenly the world was my oyster–even if it was a dead one.”
― Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
George Winston – Jesus, Jesus, Rest your head.
1/1/17
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The unique things about stairs, is that they exist as transitional places. They are not a room, but not, not a room. You can spend time on stairs, sit on stairs, eat on stairs, run up and down stairs, all things you can do in a room, but stairs have built in chairs to sit on, or think on, or talk to neighbors on.
11/30/16
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9/11/15
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Sometimes the snow looks remarkably like cotton candy, and at other times, like death. I prefer the first, but live with the second.
12/16/16
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The cold and loneliness of this field and image, makes me think of another far more famous field.
“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” A. Lincoln
12-24-16
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“Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.” ”
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
1/1/17
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Reality is just perception. We can’t see ultraviolet light. We can only hear certain frequencies. There could be large ultraviolet creatures standing talking, at frequencies the human ear can’t perceive, right next to you and you would not be able to see or hear them.
So is this glass half full or half empty?
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Its actually full. It is full of H and O, its just the bottom part has 2 H’s for every O. H2O.
© words by Dan DeMarle 2017
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