Quoted in the Grove:
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~Theodore Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds…
~Theodore Roosevelt
EndQuote:
The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.
~Ben Bradley
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Posted from the Grove
Piffin From The Platform:
~Paul Young: Every Time You Go Away (4:20)
~Gregory Abbott: Shake You Down (4:03)
~Fleetwood Mac: Bleed To Love Her (3:15)
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Summer Reading List: by Piffin
Now that summer is here, a lot of us find extra time for reading; be it on the beach, beside a motel pool, sunning in the back yard. In case you don’t have anything in mind to read, I thought I might share a list of ten of my favorite novels. Every novel on this list is here because I have read it numerous times: some as many as three times over, a few as many as ten.
The list is in no particular order, but I hope maybe you will find at least one of them to your liking.
Have a great summer!
1. The Wasp Factory ~ Iain Banks
2. Winter’s Tale ~ Mark Helprin
3. American Tabloid ~ James Ellroy
4. Imajica ~ Clive Barker
5. Neuromancer ~ William Gibson
6. Shella ~ Andrew Vachss
7. The War Hound and the World’s Pain ~ Michael Moorcock
8. Siddhartha ~ Hermann Hesse
9. Foucault’s Pendulum ~ Umberto Eco
10. Illusions ~ Richard Bach
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For the Coming Summer Travel Season:
Beyond Wanderlust — 30 Words Every Traveler Should Know
http://mentalfloss.com/article/546760/words-every-traveler-should-know
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Prewritten for Thurs 06/28 (6:00pm PT/9 ET): summer killed winter
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@Writers Platform:
Prewritten: off
~Greymane: Off
Often lost in fears of men where distance is a friend
Awful miles alone again still ages from the end
Warmer places just ahead that offer us a rest
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~BarTalk:
Fair Trade
Chase is on, game’s afoot
A rivalry has taken root
Carry off the fairer sex
Married off no more debts
Her papa of the pampas
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Process
“Break a leg” to broken bones
Broken promises that neither owns
Knocked up, knocked about
Getting off, then getting out
Twins of Birth and Mother Earth
Love was good once, a dime bag worth
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Situations (5-7-5 x 4)
unlisted option
get off your pear-perfect ass
encased in brocade
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pistols drawn, smokin’
gunslinger’s deadly face-off
both right, fast, dead
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sperm bank needs donor
why not let Anton Chekhov
spill millions for ink
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Groundhog Day Stand Off
Warmongers versus Winners
M-o-m spells Mom
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Impromptu: miles away
~Piffin: “Hide It Well”
These machines
Ignored by the nightshift girls
These tubes
These pills
These needles
These machines
Playing music from another world
Blood pressure alarms
Like angels
Look at the sky
It’s the color of airplanes
Look at the sky
I’m going nowhere
Look at the sky
It’s the color of airplanes
Look at the sky
This window at dusk
It’s miles away
Miles away
AFIB
A lie
You’ll be better soon
A trip
Down the hall in a wheelchair
A slip
Of a tear
But I hide it well
Concentrate on the Rorschach bruises
Look at the sky
It’s the color of airplanes
Look at the sky
I’m going nowhere
Look at the sky
It’s the color of airplanes
Look at the sky
Or the floor
Or the needles
Look at the sky
Or the floor
Or the needles
Look at the sky
Or the floor
Until I’m miles away
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~Greymane: Nonetheless
Lost between a moment’s breath and where the children play
A voyage from the day we met, a million miles away
She borrowed all my memories and molded me to hers
She chains my wisdom every time my arrogance occurs
I gambled on forgotten winds that barely filled my sails
I lost her in the tailspin with difficult details
Adrift aboard the atmosphere from here to aeons gone
A nap in my gazebo and flamingoes on the lawn
Alive I guess, a bit distressed
but happy all the same
Alone but I’m still kickin’
and still happy that I came
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~Matttt: …And The Color of Her Hair
You said you didn’t feel the same anymore
But then you came around again
And then you said it again one night
And so, round and round we’ve been
So when you finally decided
You were walking out that door
You were already miles away
Before I knew you were here no more
Occasionally you stop by
And ask of polite things
And then you say you miss me
But that lie doesn’t fly from afar
You say you plan to return
But if you ever do
I think that I should keep you
Arms length, And miles away.
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Gazing out the door
Mesmerized with distant thoughts
He was miles away
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She could feel his gaze
Her hands trembled holding flowers
He was nowhere near
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He held his eyes sharp
Straining to see from up high
Wagons from miles away
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~ElizaRubi: : O
Did I tell you that I can read lines on the palm of your right hand? Yes, I can. First I’ll tell your past, so you’d believe me. And than I’ll describe you your future, so you’d have time to prepare for it, to meet it without fear. Of course, it is almost impossible for me to read it being miles away from you…but I try.
I can see you full of hopes and great expectations. I can see your first blow at the age of 25, your first serious disappointment…in yourself, something you did not expect. And it took a lot of strength to overcome it, to get back on your track.
I can see how excited you were when you got a new job, completely different that you did before. I can see the awakening of your ambitions, the time when the sky was a limit…
I can see everything…from miles away, I have this power. Do you want me to continue?
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~BarTalk: twice distant
not here and not now
invisible, or might as well be
a phantom from the ether
hours that tick like eternities
miles away and not next to me
if there or then, I say
not either
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