Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island
~Walt Disney

I don’t think there’s much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there’s some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don’t bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
~Peter Singer

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.
~Barbara Marx Hubbard

EndQuote:
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
~Anne Lamott

 

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Exercise Prompt for 06/28:  judge

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The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles’ demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion. The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small and inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
~Herodotus

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Posted from the Grove

The conductor’s stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
~Riccardo Muti

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~Abe Fortas

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
~Buddha

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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Special Edition:  More of the same
No one accepted the Special Edition challenge. A shame, really. There are better poets in There.com than this editor.

 

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~Stefan Hunt:  They Saw the Sun First   (8:12)
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/412443719

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How the Publishing World Is Staying Alive During Pandemic
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-the-publishing-world-is-staying-afloat-during-the-pandemic_n_5ec431c9c5b69985547b5a5b?ncid

 

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Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
~Baltasar Gracian

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don’t have enough brains to have your good taste.
~Ray Bradbury

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VIDEO:

~Vier Nev:  A Mind Sang   (6:11)   line takes on life, evolves, becomes
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/430690235

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~Key & Peele:  Awkward Apologies from White People*   (3:18)   squirm worthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrhWLfmfZ0Y

 

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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
~Albert Einstein

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
~William James

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
~Jeanette Winterson

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MUSIC:   Wide variety, pick to taste

~Hart of Dixie proposal:  Islands In The Stream   (2:52)   feel-goods included

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~Zac Brown Band:  Island Song   (3:36)   3½ minute vacation

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~Alison Luff:  Island Song  (Escape With Me)   (3:33)
If the song queued up after this is, She Used to Be Mine, watch it

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~Tout Va Bien:  Have You  (the island song)   (2:58)   island, pronounce it ‘alone’

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~Renée Dominique:  Island In The Sun  (Weezer cover)   (2:44)   understated

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~Ikson:  Island   (3:13)   from the driver’s seat of a Lamborghini  (just because)

 

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The conductor’s stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
~Riccardo Muti

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~Abe Fortas

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that’s what guys like me do … and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?
~Stephen King

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
~Steven Wright

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.
~Simon Munnery

I took my son to Coney Island, I said “wanna go in the crazy house?”, he said “save your money we’ll be home soon”
~Rodney Dangerfield

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My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: ‘Don’t be Sicily’.
~Tim Vine

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.
~Terry Pratchett

 

 

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
~John Archibald Wheeler

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph Washington Sockman

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
~William Arthur Ward

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@Writers Platform

Everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
~Guy Gavriel Kay

Best of an island is once you get there – you can’t go any farther … you’ve come to the end of things.
~Agatha Christie

I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City .
~Spalding Gray

As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
~Laurie Anderson

 

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Exercise Prompt:  island

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~BarTalk:

Compatible

Clouds in ceaseless motion
Morphing, emerging, evolving
Transitioning while in transit
Sunny dispositions
Roiling emotions
Sunset complexion
Predictable tantrums
Restless, unfolding spirits
Grow moody in migration
Break up, rejoin, renew themselves
Shed tears of sadness and joy
Temperamental sky islands
Brothers under the skin
Clouds move me

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Dual Doggerels Dueling  #21

At Liberty

The house for you
An island for me
A moss covered rock
Solitary tree
You tried, we cried
Troubled identities
Court granted both
Sanctuary

The He-did Ditty

Sequestered isle, end of life
Eschewed love’s aisle and wedding vows
An island’s peace instead of strife
I’ll land alone as death allows

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Biograph

Not just feeble but visibly failing
If not deranged, certifiably unhinged
Cowers a brawler who crawls from danger
But signs of conscience, nary a twinge
No genuflecting choir, no bowing angels
Not smelling sourly of sulfur and singe

Not yet vetted for a golden crown
Sits a golden toilet his diurnal throne
No chiseling statue of Carrara marble
But fools gold shine, pale yellow brimstone
Self-sworn apostle of chimerical cures
Yet apostate opponent of the Golden Rule

Not swayed by facts, no fan of science
Thinks experts bore and reading a chore
Mistakes his wishes and mirrors for truth
Speaks in tweets, but squeaks don’t roar
Midst an ocean of  waving crowds
Squats Lyin’ Island, but lion no more

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5-7-5-7-7 x 1

currently in vogue
faithless feckless fupped duck GrOuP
islands in the way
vote no to fresh dream’s boatload
closed future’s door now they’re in

 

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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
~Luke Rhinehart

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
~Charles Stross

Old age is an island surrounded by death.
~Juan Montalvo

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
~Denis Waitley

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Quotes harvested from: https://azquotes.com,  https://wiseoldsayings.com

*Thx to:  Daily PNut.com

 

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