Word Of The Week

Frankly, my dear, I don't give aqap.

Word-of-the-Week is: aqap.
Pronounced: A-kwap.
Meaning: as quickly as possible.
Example usage: Frankly, I don't give aqap.

Variation: oqap.
Pronounced: O-kwap.
Example usage: Oqap, I thought it was 4 o'clock.

Walk The Walk

Walk it off

Fred Nietzsche: All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. Anonymous: Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. Albanian Proverb: When you have no companion, look to your walking stick. Steve Wright: Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time. Tom Jefferson: The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. Joan Rivers: He who limps is still walking. Hippocrates: Walking is man's best medicine.

Open Door Policy

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
--Joseph Campbell

Quoting Whitman

A conversation with Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

BlogSpot: How do you feel about having an image of yourself on a postage stamp?

Walt Whitman: If you done it, it ain't bragging.

BS: Many consider you one of America's great poets and some call you the Father Of Free Verse. Your thoughts on this, sir?

WW: To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

BS: Your bio indicates you were also a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. You seem to have a real connection with the common folk.

WW: I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

BS: You have obviously written a lot. Do you also like to spend time reading?

WW: A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

BS: Any thoughts on the current state of world affairs?

WW: Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

BS: What do you think the future holds?

WW: The future is no more uncertain than the present.

BS: How do you deal with life on a daily basis?

WW: To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

BS: What lessons have you learned?

WW: I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

BS: What advice would you care to share with our readers?

WW: Be curious, not judgmental. Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.

Magic Bus

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician. ~Reba McEntire

Firepost

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. ~Leigh Hunt.

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~Robert Herrick.

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic. ~Jack Handey.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. ~Author Unknown.

World of Solutions

The difference between what we do

and what we are capable of doing

would suffice to solve

most of the world's problems.

--Gandhi

Hitch Post

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.'
If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

All quotations by Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980).

Polar Eyes

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
--Anais Nin (1903-1977) American/French writer

Legal Aliens

I recently had the pleasure of coming upon some aliens who had just landed.
Curiously, I did not feel any fear of abduction, just a calm sense of perhaps trying to have a dialogue with them, to gain some mutual understanding. They did agree to pose for a photo-op before we got started...

We agreed to take turns asking each other questions!

They first asked if they could speak to Our Leader, to which I said "Do you mean Hillary Clinton?", to which they retorted: "No, Tom Cruise!"

It was now my turn to ax, so I decided to throw them a two-part question: 1. "Why are you here?" and 2. "How long are you staying?"

Their answer was: "We are here to help Warm Your Planet", and "We are leaving because your Dear Leader has imposed a new UFO Tax, which is Driving us Out of Orbit!"

The Legal Aliens then surprised me with their next question: "Why didn't Adam Lambert win Season 8 of American Idol?" (Maybe you can help me out with a response here!)

My next two-parter: 1."What have you found to be the healthiest substance in the universe?" and, 2. "What do you use as your currency?"

Their answer to both parts: "Heineken."

Mark's Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
--Mark Twain