Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:   center
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
~Norman Vincent Peale

His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center.
~Kiera Cass

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I’m watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain’t talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.
~Sherman Alexie

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Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.
~Mike Mason

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Exercise Prompt for 08/30:  shop

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A woman has a center, is a center. But a man isn’t, he’s a reaching out. So he reaches out and grabs things and piles them up around him and says, I’m this, I’m that, this is me, that’s me, I’ll prove that I am me! And he can wreck a lot of things, trying to prove it.
~Ursula K Le Guin

Quick, nervy and jumpy – yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.
~Anita Desai

I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
~Sarah Dessen

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Posted from the Grove

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center…
~Anna Deveare Smith

The knowledge traditionally associated with the center is deeply compromised by its sheer lack of knowledge with regards to the margins. On the margins one knows (and has been required to know) far more about the center than the center ever knows about the margins.
~Fernando Segovia     [ellipses deleted for continuity and clarity]

What we all dread most is a maze with no centre.
~G K Chesterton

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.
~James Franco

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~Giphy’s Backdrops:  Animated scenes to Zoom and room in
Cute, fun, quirky, political, beautiful, and you are at the center of it
https://giphy.com/backdrops?utm_source

(Thx to Rusty’s Electric Dreams)

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AI learning to avoid people & navigate (shopping centers, etc)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1249687014137528320
With Jessica Misener @washingtonpost.com, KimmyMonte @twitter

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When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
~Bernard Baily

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one’s just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.
~Aldous Huxley

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.
~Mason Cooley

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.
~Martin Seligman

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VIDEO:

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
~Toby Young

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den.
~Zubin Mehta

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
~Samuel P Huntington

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~ManishTV23:  The Original CALL CENTER Movie, in its entirety   (12:44)   comedy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g0XMx1sFEA

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The Center for People That YouTube Made Infamous   (3:34)   infamous being key
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVOo6LoosgY

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~Omeleto:  From Life   (8:22)   a ghost story, not unpleasant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEffu6CLO7Y

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Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
~David Foster Wallace

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.
~Marjane Satrapi

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
~Laurie Anderson

People want to be at the center of the Universe…and they’re going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
~Victor J Stenger

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MUSIC:

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world – who doesn’t? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. … She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.
~Gregory Maguire

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.
~Roger Kahn

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
~Black Elk

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~Peter Frampton:  Show Me the Way   (5:55)   non-political, but could be

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~Naa B C Center’lu   (4:16)   brilliant colors, choreography

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~John Fogerty:  Centerfield   (3:51)   vintage clips, baseball at its best

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~Suzanne Vega:  Left of Center   (3:32)   location finder

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J Geils Band:  Centerfold   (3:43)   private, gone public

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~Rocky Wallace:  Center of Gravity   (3:08)   centered elsewhere

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I don’t judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.
~Toba Beta

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world – who doesn’t? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. … She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.
~Gregory Maguire

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.
~Roger Kahn

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
~Black Elk

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I’ve been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men’s auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.
~Jim Butcher

When I was a kid, if you didn’t speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn’t pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the – Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don’t think that’s the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.
~Roddy Doyle

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don’t know if it’s true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that’s a fantasy you can’t make up.
~Joyce DeWitt

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Enter the Center

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For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn’t the center of the universe or even the centre of my own world. That you and your work, your living, are not the only reason you’re here. Your role is to shepherd your children through to adulthood. That’s the point of life. Your own little sessions and needs and passions are just there to flavour you and help you do that job for your children.
~Shaun Micallef

Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.
~Andrew Lincoln

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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@Writers Platform

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.
~Charles Baudelaire

I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will be. I do not believe that we are in the center of the world. It is possible that there are gods who do not relate to human. As an artist, I believe that it is possible to depict these forces.
~Anselm Kiefer

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.
~Mason Cooley

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Exercise Prompt:  center

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~BarTalk:

Bound to Bond

One life to live, a sacred gift
Afloat alone, at sea, adrift
Between love’s need and world a rift

Imprisoned Spartan in his garden
Walled up heart, protected, hardened
Love’s pilot beacon long forgotten

In darkest night, found garden center
A planted Rose, someOne sent her
Love is blind, but need could scent her

Planted late, out of date and season
Why then, why there, no rhyme no reason
Yet not to tend it would treat of treason

Hesitation meant starvation equals demon
‘Tis wrong to reckon when love beckons
The moment pleads, please heed the sermon

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Destiny

Fated love at the shopping center
Parking lot where his car dent hers
Car body shop fixed their fenders
Married now, co-signed co-renters
Where fervid ardor daily ent-hers

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Love Story #23

Love’s truly blind unlike the movies
Life’s unkind, just check with newsies
Tragedy, comedy, both leave bruises

Who wrote the script and who directed
The gory line of a land infected
Defective plot renounced, rejected

Themed intrigue, new scheme, new category
Change of scene from hatred’s laboratory
Now a search for love, a detective story

New plot, new leads, new set of clues
New storyline plays to rave reviews
When central casting gave me you

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Challenge Central    (5-7-5, 7-5-7-5-7)

Volkswagen Beetle
Under-powered people’s car
Defies the Andes

Painted, polished, pampered car
Surmounts these mountains
Curved, steep, brutal mile-high roads
Beauty versus Beast
Souped up, throttled Beetle roars

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5-7-5

3:00 in the morning
my world, center of the night
the day dawns asleep

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The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.
~Galileo Galilei

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
~Nicolaus Copernicus

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
~Ann Druyan

Every time we start thinking we’re the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, “I’m sorry. What’d you say your name was again?”
~Margaret Maron

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The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.
~Joseph Campbell

When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, “It makes me feel so insignificant.” I answer, “The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up.” We’ve abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.
~Alan Dressler

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.
~Laozi

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