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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
January 13, 2020 |
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The only advice is …
- to let them alone; they will not change.
- practice controlling it, but keep it secret.
- eat and drink well, dance, and be merry.
- have nothing to do with it.
- to take one step at a time.
- try to observe with an unobstructed horizon.
- be prepared for the worst by avoiding it.
- that it's okay to be confused, and find some peace in your confusion.
- to follow you heart.
- that less is more.
- to stay loose.
- to use common sense.
- to emigrate.
- when you find the right stuff, buy in multiples.
- to let it be a little bit.
- to set aside everything you know (at least temporarily).
- go to bed immediately and stay there several days.
- to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research. See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
May 2, 2014 |
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An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903). The caption reads: "Don't rouse the sleeping lion."
Jonathan Caws-Elwitt writes, "My tastes don't run to the macabre, but there's something about a jaunty skeleton carrying its own skull under its arm that always makes me smile. But wait, there's more! This particular j. s. with o. s. under its a. is giving advice—unsolicited and unwanted advice, from the looks of it—to another skeleton. Tip of the skull to Professor Oddfellow for (wait for it) unearthing this!"
Harold Lee replies, "I see your interpretation, but I'd like to think the inquiring skeleton is making the skeleton-equivalent request of, 'Lemme try on your hat.'"
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Staring at the Sun –
March 31, 2014 |
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"My advice is to turn your back on the sunset and see how its warm glow is magically lighting up the people, objects, and scenes around you." — The Trustees of ReservationsOur illustration is from On Blue Water by Edmondo de Amicis, 1898. The caption reads: "He turned his back on the sunset."
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory –
January 31, 2010 |
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William Keckler offers "Somewhat Belated Advice for Marie Antoinette":
Don't dress or coif onself
too much like a turkey
amidst millions
of starving French peasants,
as one might just
get treated like one.
We would add: When plastering the walls with jewels, substitute cut glass for diamonds. You'll get tons of sparkle as you help to ease the deterioration of the financial situation in France.
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