Quotes From The Grove:
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
~Thomas Paine
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Half truths can be brutal but the full truth is always beautiful.
~Daniel Duarte
EndQuote:
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth – whatever the truth may be –– that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
~June Jordan
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Prewritten Exercise Theme: light
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Posted From The Grove
Super Bowl History: Why Roman Numerals Are The Super Bowl’s Signature
https://www.dictionary.com/e/the-roman-numeral-bowl-are-you-ready-for-some-football/
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*Salvador Dali, Walt Disney: Destino (6:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w38cerphic4&feature=youtu.be&utm_source
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*Destino Reconsidered – Music by Pink Floyd: Time (7:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc_f9VDVsNk&feature=youtu.be&utm_source
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Requested: A close your eyes and listen moment
~Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill: Au fond du temple saint (4:40)
(From Bizet’s, The Pearl Fishers)
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Need a good cry? This should do it.
*I Died Today. By, Duke Roberts
http://www.robynarouty.com/blog/i-died-today
*With a bow of gratitude to: Rusty’s Electric Dreams
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DEMOCRACY
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Stacked
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@Writers Platform
Prewritten Theme: pawn
~BarTalk:
Torn
Willing subject to rival passions
Stay the scales before my eyes
Am I blind to all but justice
Or gameboard pawn at Sweetheart Lies
Eagle-eyed to strike for truth
Or caged in concert mourning doves
Torn between two clashing factions
But was the subject law or love
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Trading Up
Upon my word I pawned my soul
Surrendered shelter for the open road
Ceded safety abandoned home
Relinquished all for room to roam
Plumbed deep sorrow’s barren depth
Bid for wisdom price was death
Chose the roadside’s unknown gravesite
Climbed discovery’s airless height
Waved away love’s right to grow
Waived it all for a chance to know
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Pawn Shop
For Sale: A Second Chance
Trade old Habits for new Money
Quit happy hour and cigarettes
Vegas visits and lotto bets
Bottled drinks that help forget
List of drugs that quell regret
Use the cash to settle debts
Pay the vet and food for pets
Music lessons for the clarinet
Piano sax or coronet
Woo that blistering hot brunette
Buy that bullet fast red Corvette
We’d beg one boon
Just don’t forget
The fun we had
And might have yet
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
~Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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