Being a doc and a dork too, I've been studying on COVID-19 since it first appeared.  Still the magnitude of the crisis is shocking.  This will be a life-changing event and it may last for years.  I could loose both of my parents.  I would not be shocked if I also were to die, but then I have been expecting to die since early in life.  What ( Read more... )

To begin with, (your project) is a toy and an amusement.  Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant.  The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling it to the public.
--Winston Churchill

 "'If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get ( Read more... )

Just finished this novel last night.  I don't read a lot of novels, but I have a few on my shelf which have always come to me strongly recommended by someone I trust.  I don't remember who gave me this one.  It might have been B.  She is very much into all things native ( Read more... )

I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. ( Read more... )

Grant me the tenacity to beat the living shit out of a line until it fits
The courage to cut what I cannot fix
And the wisdom to feign indifference.
--Sir Christopher Jelley

The sophistication of truth ( Read more... )

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--E.F.Schumacher

Actually
But
Just
Always
Never
Should

SOURCE
http://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/6-words-to-remove-from-your-vocabulary.html

What do you think? Have you ever fallen into that pit where you had no "real" life and your entire life existed through a keyboard and screen? Have you found your way back into the land of living and breathing? Have you discovered your body? Are you OK being alone with yourself ( Read more... )