“Some days you think you can’t go on because the only thing waiting for you is more despair. Some days you don’t want to go on because it’s easier to give up than to get hurt again.” ~ Marieke Nijkamp; This Is Where It Ends
Tag: Mood
Oct 29
September 2024 – Quote of the Month
“What words are these have falle’n from me?Can calm despair and wild unrestBe tenants of a single breast,Or sorrow such a changeling be?” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson; In Memoriam A. H. H.
Jun 29
Missed Time
People tell each other, ‘You did a so much.’ But we know all the things that we didn’t do that we could have. That we should have.
Jun 27
May 2024 – Quote of the Month
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” ~Edmund Burke
Dec 31
Waiting on a Sunny Day
I’ve been fighting a flu here at year’s end. So this last post of 2023 is a quickie. 2023 was a, ‘challenging’ year (to put it mildly). And the sallow, grey, late fall and winter light has been draining. I took this photo at a local fair, July 3, 2010. I chose this image, not …
Oct 24
September 2023 – Quote of the Month
“The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping.” ~ Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (Autobiography)
Nov 29
Breaking News
Even though news is no not nearly so soul crushing like it was while Trump was in office, I still find myself burned out on all of it. I’ve often advocated that a democracy depends on a well-informed electorate, so I’ve felt that its almost akin to a patriotic duty to follow the news. But …
Jul 21
June 2019 – Quote of the Month
“Had enough of heartbreak and painI had a little sweet spot for the rainFor the rain and skies of greyHello sunshine, won’t you stay?” ~ Bruce Springsteen
Jun 21
May 2019 – Quote of the Month
“I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” ~ D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
May 17
April 2019 – Quote of the Month
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” ~ John Keats
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