Quoted in The Grove:
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death — ourselves.
~Eda LeShan
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
~Joseph Krutch
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
~Francois de la Rochefoucauld
EndQuote:
When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be.
~Jean Culligan
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Exercise Prompt for 04/19: dawn
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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
~Betsy Lerner
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Posted from the Grove
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~Tennessee Williams
Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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DIY Bandana Face Mask: Because we’re not out of the woods yet ̶ 1 bandana, 2 rubber bands
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-make-face-mask-bandana_l_5e876472c5b63e06281d87d9?ncid
Don’t have a bandana? No problem. The standard size of a bandana is 22 inches square, or 56 square centimeters, so you can find a piece of cotton fabric that has a similar weight. An old bedsheet, a pillowcase, a T-shirt, pajamas, or a dress shirt you don’t wear anymore will do just fine.
Don’t have rubber bands? Stretchy hair ties (the kind you secure a ponytail with) will do the trick.
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But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
~Megan Whalen Turner
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
~Henry Cloud
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
~Paul Tillich
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Video:
~John Krasinkski: Some Good News #2 (16:51) Much needed, heart warming
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People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
~Andy Warhol
I want to be with those who know secret things, or else alone.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
~Warsan Shire
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~Lord Byron
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Music:
~Bob Dylan: The Times, They Are a-Changin’ Pick ONE
~Josephine Baker: The Times… (5:39) powerful, historic
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~Apartment Sessions: The Times… (3:13) revolutionary
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~Kimberly Townsend: The Times… (3:53) the delivery
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~Flogging Molly: The Times… (3:01) dynamic, high-energy
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~Janileigh Cohen: The Times… (3:28) the voice
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If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?
~Judy Garland
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~Albert Einstein
All great and precious things are lonely.
~John Steinbeck
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~Lorraine Hansberry
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The only place I’ve felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There’s something in the water there that connects me to that place. There’s also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I’ve never been able to shake.
~Jessica Lange
There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
~Charles Bukowski
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Lake Solitude
© David Lorenz Winston
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In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.
~Robert Brault
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
~Gilbert K Chesterton
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
~Robert Brault
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@Writers Platform
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Exercise Prompt: alone / isolation
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~BarTalk:
Distance Between
A hillside window fronts my world
Bit players and titans lodge below
I and the mountains see eye-to-eye
They, stolid in their age-old grandeur
And I, who reside in my fine isolation
Neither blinks at the distance between
Both subject to the ravages of erosion
Pay no mind to the rulings of time
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Griefers
Victims wearing masks
Thieves being robbed
Isolation wards
Bugs as thugs
Grime as crime
Cutpursing pickpockets
Microbial life snatchers
Taking their sweet sweat time
Stealing hours…
Ours
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Skin Hunger
Behold the times
How they change
So long between
That sex is strange
Where love retreats
Stops and hesitates
To meet for drinks
Or congregate
Steamy screens
Replace the scene
With lifeless pixels
That copulate
A loan of hugs
Would mean so much
Would pay you back
Ten-fold to touch
A couple lips
That meet and kiss
That nixed the dissed
Apocalypse
Aye, so late
Shun the debate
And kept the date
That felt sooo great
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5-7-5-7-7
alone with his thoughts
advised of an early death
age and illness bound
prompted to let go of life
inhaled the virus to die
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5-7-5
sheltered-at-home tape
orgy, a party of one
titled Home Alone
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~Paul Tournier
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
~Joseph Fort Newton
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