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

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We can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, by what we resist, and who we exclude. We've got to measure our goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include. Lines from "Chocolat."

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The mass of humanity has minds like soft wax. Once an impression is made upon them, it won't change until you change it for them. They are malleable but not self-malleable (a condition politicians and PR men use to sinister advantage). Tom Robbins 1976

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Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas. (Tom Robbins)






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Day Singer

He sings, he whirrs his song in summer
His stage any branch or limb
A mate will hear his beckoning buzz
And come alight near him

For years he's waited for this moment in time--
This day--his place in the sun.
For this is the way Nature has planned it
And her will will surely be done

His song is all important,
Its purpose his species to survive
Me, I just like to hear him,
The summertime July-fly

(Ode to the Cicada)

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Nightbird

His is the music of the night
Silent is his arrival on wing
Stealing in with the shadows
Now the plaintive voice begins
A singular song repeated to delightful monotony
And as the moon rises does too the call:

Whip-poor-will ... whip-poor-will ... whip-poor-will ....