rudyard kipling's "if'

if


you can keep your head

when all others around you are losing theirs??
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where are my muses?

late night bus rides home

quiet time cooking in the kitchen

walks with georgia
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notes from the month:

imagine if you cut off you rfingertip, threw it away, and then had to go and find it??
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sayings for life:

reduce, reuse , recycle (jack johnson song)

use yourwords

courtesy comes from caution

regifting...

break up...work out....get hot


"HA! HA! laughter like the charlie brown christmas special

keep on "keepin' on"

canyou just stay 'half of a lot and a little longer"
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punished by thrift
so crazy in that old new england way of "thrift"
i will blow my nose with the same piece of toilt paper, and then wipe my ass with it....2 uses....thrifty..
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i could read the horoscope each day, and become afraid to leave the house
"beware of your limitations"
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i wake up each morning, go to bed each night.
i look at my shit in the toilet. the quality, texture. curious and disgusted.
what have been eating?why is it always different?
am i feeling well...
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"hey honey bun
buddy hon
honey bun


buddy hun
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our old ancestors, elders
will end life pushed in wheelchairs by home attending aides. the jewsih son of zion will get taken to a local east side cafe, unable to speakin protest, incomprehensible in his wheelchair.
the attendant will order a bacon cheeseburger to go.

the lod man can only look at the barking dog, contemptuous of his fat aide, yet he cannot speak nor walk.]

the hare krishna's recognize the cycle of life, death, age....they celebrate it with an image of baby to boy to man to old man to death....

your stint as an old manwill take up over half of your life.

so this old man, who cannot speak
people are fighing over his money.
governmentmoney to pay where he lives and dies, who cares for him, who gets the money for his extensive medical bills.

he may be a drain on society, but that money supports a lot people, and the rabbi's just have to wait until he dies to get their money.

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when you only have money and not much else in a marraige, somehow the money is never enough.

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iwas talking with as friend. it would be cool to own an art gallery, where you only had to show grea tart. the bills got paid......

but then: you'd still have to reject a lot of people to do it right,
and wouldn't there be pressure to sellthings, as well??
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rudyard kipling's "if'

if you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
but make allowance for their doubting too;
if you can wait and be tired by waiting,
or being lied about, don't deal in lies;
or being hated, don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good,nor talk too wise.

if you can dream, - and not make dreams your master;
if you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
if you can meet with triumph and disaster
and treat those two imposters just the same;
if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools;
or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
and stoop and build em with worn out tools;

if you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one game of pitch and toss,
and lose, and start at your beginnings
and never breathe a word about your loss;
if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to seve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the will which says to them "hold on";

if you can talk with crowds and keep you rvirtue,
or walk with kings- nor lose the common touch;
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
if all men count with you, but none too much;

if you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds worth of distance run-
yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
and - which is more- you'll be a man, my son!!!

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