A tweet from 1950

Grow flowers

"Docter does see an 'interesting philosophical question' in the human fears around AI, and the ways people fear robots might start to take ownership of what we feel belongs to us. Pixar is a company built on computers and pixels, but also its people." theankler.com/p/pixar-pete-d…

The DEI school of poetry is all about vacuous self-expression. They have no interest in art. MFA programs encourage the production of bad art because professors are too scared of the students to provide real critique. Critique = violence.

Don't give money to anti-racism "experts." Do read Rich Cromwell -- always.

Hemingway wrote to Gerald and Sara Murphy after the death of their son, "And he is spared from learning what sort of a place the world is."

The late autumn afternoons when the sun disappeared into the horizon and the light spilled out after it. The shadows dark on the dry grass, yellow leaves chased away by the wind. And cool days crept at our heels and we lingered so they could catch us. Summer ends. Begin again.

She could see the miles stretched out green before her. It was the wild that crept into her mind and she wanted to meet it in the distance. She smiled. Someday she would meet it and it would be waiting.

“When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you. If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme When you wish upon a star As dreamers do.”

I have a southern accent from growing up in NC. And my skin tone is mostly red from smoking great cigars and drinking very good scotch. So, I do know better. I’d recommend you try both. Your evaluative skills might improve.

Lois Dodd - The Yellow House, Lincolnville, 1979

“In our time liars and thieves and whores and adulterers wish also to be congratulated by the great public, if their confession is sufficiently psychological or strikes a sufficiently heartfelt and authentic note of sincerity. Oh, we are sincere. I do not deny it.” —Walker Percy

Of course this is Rob Long story. He’s a gifted storyteller and admirable writer, for which he has many fans, rightly so. But I’m here to add the spritz if vermouth: Mr. Long is an inspiration and has given a nothing like me everything — for getting along, even in the small spaces.

It’s odd how the people with “Everyone is welcome here” and “In this house we believe…” lawn signs generally are the most intolerant and angry people regarding politics social activism.

those days when you're reading alone in the corner booth because you have no friends and secretly wish someone would come sit at the next table, lean over whisper, "that's a good book" order a banana shake and you know he *knows* and the world will be ok the world will be ok