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"If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren’t well enough to travel."
British explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs, quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail, as published in This Week magazine, July 22, 2011
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Benjamin Franklin, quoted in the Nashville Tennessean, as published in This Week magazine, July 22, 2011
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
Cyril Connolly, quoted in Refdesk.com, as published in This Week magazine, July 22, 2011
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting."
Charles Bukowski, US (German-born) author & poet (1920 - 1994)
"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
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Tuesday 9:00AM
by Denver Butson
A man standing at the bus stop
reading the newspaper is on fire
Flames are peeking out
from beneath his collar and cuffs
His shoes have begun to melt
The woman next to him
wants to mention it to him
that he is burning
but she is drowning
Water is everywhere
in her mouth and ears
in her eyes
A stream of water runs
steadily from her blouse
Another woman stands at the bus stop
freezing to death
She tries to stand near the man
who is on fire
to try to melt the icicles
that have formed on her eyelashes
and on her nostrils
to stop her teeth long enough
from chattering to say something
to the woman who is drowning
but the woman who is freezing to death
has trouble moving
with blocks of ice on her feet
It takes the three some time
to board the bus
what with the flames
and water and ice
But when they finally climb the stairs
and take their seats
the driver doesn’t even notice
that none of them has paid
because he is tortured
by visions and is wondering
if the man who got off at the last stop
was really being mauled to death
by wild dogs
Tuesday 9:00AM by Denver Butson | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
"Why is it as mothers that we are set up in life to be compared to Angelina Jolie, mother of five…Paula Dean, mother of the kitchen…and Mother Teresa, mother of all. NO I don’t have Angelina’s rock hard body (or her super gorgeous husband either). NO I don’t cook amazing comfort food like Paula. And NO I don’t have the patience of a Saint. It’s like someone decided that we should all live with this underlying current of constant shame and guilt—and God created Eve and instantly put food in front of her and then she got in trouble for eating it. Guilt, shame and dieting—it is our destiny."
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
Dialogues and Letters by Seneca, translated by C. D. N. Costa
