Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
~Rumi

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
~Walt Disney

EndQuote:
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~Liz Smith

 

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Exercise Prompt for 04/05:  humor

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Posted from the Grove

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
~Dave Weinbaum

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Beginning: For a Richer Life:

Breaking & Entering the Shy Zone: Not beginning the conversation, but extending it – 3 Ways

https://forge.medium.com/3-ways-to-rescue-a-conversation-thats-going-nowhere-1e0d954ae371

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Video:

Covid no more!  A mashup video (3:36)   fun
https://vimeo.com/400584129

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Activities in the Time of COVID:

Turkish Water Marbling:  From Craft to Hobby   (5:20)   soothing, mesmerizing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqclBOtOEx8

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From MentalFloss.com
9 Classic Board Games You Can Play Online
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/621061/classic-board-games-to-play-online

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50 Amazing Skills You Can Learn on YouTube
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/572087/learn-skills-on-youtube

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HuffPost’s extensive list of online courses
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/online-classes-you-can-take-at-home_l_5e7a7a29c5b6e051e8dce9f7?ncid

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8 Master Class Courses To Get You Out of Your Netflix Funk
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/621543/try-these-masterclass-courses

Scroll down the page for these additional activities:
11 Boredom-Busting Classes and Activities You Can Do at Home
11 Essential Spring Cleaning Products

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You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
Jane Hirshfield

Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
~Carl Bard

 

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Music:

~Gary Valenciano:  Where Do I Begin   (4:28)

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~Joeboy:  Beginning   (2:40)

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~Colin Hay:  Waiting For My Real Life to Begin   (7:52)

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~Johnossi:  Heavens (Then We Begin)   (5:14)

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~Placebo:  Begin The End   (6:03)

 

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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
~Louis L’Amour

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
~Seneca

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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
~C S Lewis

Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.
~Jim Rohn

 

 

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
~Kate Chopin

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~Saint Francis of Assisi

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
~Goethe

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@Writers Platform

Exercise Prompt:  begin

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~BarTalk:

Tanka  (5-7-5-7-7)

start as a word seed
growing against gravity
begin as a phrase
watch the budding poem grow
penetrate doubt into depth

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begin the faking
needing dough for the raking
s’not love we’re making
kneading dough for the baking
take in the godforsaken

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snow melting yonder
begins the river from here
start the clock at birth
crash over rocks into pools
arrive purified at sea

 

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~Mary Pickford

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.
~Winston Churchill

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
~Henry Ford

Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
~Hubert Humphrey

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Quoted in The Grove:
There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.
~unknown

The goal is to die with memories not dreams.
~unknown

I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it
~unknown

EndQuote:
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
~Jack Kerouac

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Too many good quotes on traveling and travelers to toss out for want of space in this week’s Post & Review. For a tour of quotes worth a visit:  https://wordgrove.com/TravelQuotes.html

Note:  This editor apologizes for extolling the pleasures of travel in this week’s edition, when no one can because of COVID-19. The topic was chosen to celebrate his return home after a wondrous six months in Colombia. The ambivalence embodied in celebrating my continued stay here, and missing my friends at home, and the confusing paradox it represents, cannot be overstated. Ain’t life a kick.

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/29:  begin

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Posted from the Grove

Things To Do While Sequestered:
Coloring books: Get out your colored pencils for these fun/instructive/elegant projects (requires a printer)
http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/?utm_source

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~Washington Post’s Crossword Puzzles  (Daily, Sunday, etc.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crossword-puzzles/

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~USA TODAY’s Free Online Games & Puzzles
https://puzzles.usatoday.com/

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12 World-Class Museums to Explore Online
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75809/12-world-class-museums-you-can-visit-online

 

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Video Sketches:  Travelers  ̶  It’s about time

One Minute Time Machine   (5:40)    fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY

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Room 88   (8:44)    fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tLNEeraSfc

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Time travel is possible. Will explain later.
~Jose Canseco

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.
~Ranvir Shorey

 

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A Little Travelin’ Music, Please:

~Jack Broadbent:  On The Road Again   (4:39)

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~Becca Krueger:  Hit the Road Jack   (4:39)

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~Rod Steward:  Sailing   (4:56)

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~Andrea Bocelli, with Sarah Brightman:  Time to Say Goodbye   (6:38)

 

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Wyoming
© Greg Thweatt

 

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@Writers Platform

Exercise Prompt:  travel

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~BarTalk:
Hapless Goes Mapless

Wondering at the wandering shoreline
Guessing at the history it skirts
Set out in the morning at sunrise
Intending to find everything first

A fair good try for the borderless horizon
Navigating for landfall to make it by sunset
Early adventures of a vagabond traveler
Me and my inner tube USS Tess

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Tanka: 5-7-5-7-7 x 3

audacious bandit
travels in the time of plague
just heroes wear masks
bold outlaw is a virus
loathsome bug purloining breath
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the world spreads full wide
geography’s the study
the taste of it tempts
travel proves the gestalt, yet
ain’t ’til now I been nowhere
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beginning to end
three score ten for the journey
time travel is real
vagabond, or a tourist
eyes and ears, mouth with a map

 

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All of life is a foreign country.
~Jack Kerouac

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.
~Paulo Coelho

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
~Jack Kerouac

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
~Caroline Myss

 

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Quoted in The Grove:
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
~Aaron McGruder

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
~George Orwell

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
~Arthur Miller

EndQuote:
The crux is not the publisher’s freedom to print; it is rather, the citizen’s right to know.
~Arthur Hays Sulzberger

 

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Exercise Prompt for 03/22:  travel

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The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.
~Hans Stroo, Coronapocalypse

 

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Posted from the Grove

On Writing:
Six by Judy Blume to Make You a Better Writer
https://writingcooperative.com/6-quotes-by-judy-blume-to-make-you-a-better-writer-62745b11b203

One by Hemingway More Useful Than Five by Any Other
“The best way is to always stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.”

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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
~John Hersey

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.
~Seno Gumira Ajidarma

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
~Oscar Wilde

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A Song (Title) For The Times:
~Hues Corporation:  Rock The Boat   (3:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvq74JbuwOI

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You can crush a man with journalism.
~William Randolph Hearst

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
~Napoleon

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Vimeo Video:
War Authority   (6:50)
https://vimeo.com/191688688

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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
~Henry Anatole Grunwald

Journalism is an act of faith in the future.
~Ann Curry

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If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use?
~Author Unknown

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: “President Can’t Swim.”
~Lyndon B Johnson

That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

The newspaper is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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Job’s Struggle, by William Blake

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
~Cyril Connolly

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
~Ellen Goodman

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
~Matthew Arnold

The first rough draft of history.
~Ben Bradlee

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@Writers Platform

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
~Horizon, “Electronic Frontier”

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
~Karl Kraus

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
~Elbert Hubbard

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Exercise Prompt:  splinter

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~BarTalk:
prophylaxis: penn ave

paper-mâché for a throne
sunday comics for a crown
self-imposed ignorance
brings it all down

internecine the warfare
splintered factions abound
if loyalty is two way
poser is three ways undone

in a crisis of his making
loud wailing the sound
postpone the elections
when the good go to ground

righteous rioting follows
when no solution is found
martial law is the answer
as impostors crave the crown

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Tanka x 3

work and love and play
splinters of reality
pains wanting pleasure
bitch and moan against the sin
healthy yogurt for dessert

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black tormented clouds
jagged bolts crack wide the world
splinter the silence
render the sky brilliant
storm’s deep end of excitement

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a premature death
throes of incomprehension
splinter into grief
harrowing cries for revenge
lose count and the war moves on

 

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If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
~Author unknown

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
~Harold Evans

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
~Tom Stoppard

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