“It’s a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty… and how few by dishonesty.” ― Noël Coward, playwright, from the play Blithe Spirit
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“The key to leadership is recognizing you’re not the smartest guy in the room.” — Art of Quotation
“The key to leadership is recognizing you’re not the smartest guy in the room.” Mitt Romney, Republican Senator
via “The key to leadership is recognizing you’re not the smartest guy in the room.” — Art of Quotation
“It’s ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.” — Art of Quotation
It’s ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves. Cesar Chavez, activist, “An Organizer’s Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin Image: Migrant Worker on Highway, Dorothea Lange
“humans… move to an area and multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area…another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is?” — Art of Quotation
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an […]
The Marshmallow Test? “ America….We have the knowledge, we have the resources, but we don’t have the will.” — Art of Quotation
America in 2020, it seems, is too disunited, with too many people in the grip of ideology and partisanship, to deal effectively with a pandemic. We have the knowledge, we have the resources, but we don’t have the will. Source: Washington Post, Paul Krugman America Fails the Marshmallow Test, We lack the will to beat Covid-19. […]
“I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.” — Art of Quotation
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit. Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.345, Penguin UK, 1974
“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.” — Art of Quotation
The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done. Ivan Doig, writer, book quote from “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
via “The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.” — Art of Quotation
“Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.” — Art of Quotation
“Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through The Screen Door, by Dominique Doutre
My favorite color only happens once a day.
It’s that moment right at sunset as the sky changes from blue to grey.
The light that kissed the treetops has faded from the leaves, pulling away his warm fingertips.
The color can’t decide if it’s blue or grey or simply light, tiptoeing the edge of night and day.
The color feels like solemn emptiness and acceptance that the day is over. Do we rejoice? Or am I full of dread? Of emptiness? Can one feel full on emptiness?
I sit watching the day wind down and listen to the birds through the screen door, all while my favorite color sits in the sky.
While the sunset oranges and blushy pinks cling to the clouds for brief moments and then vanish, my favorite color watches quietly.
And for one moment, once a day, right at sunset as the sky changes from blue to grey, I feel a little less alone.
LOOSE CHANGE, by Ben Naga
Endoscopy opens to a hush, closes to applause
Dramatis personÕ stride and snivel in between
While the playwright owns up as simply the you
In disguise and of course vice versa – All change!
Newton, Einstein, Erwin and his imaginary cat
A different sounding at each fresh embouchure
Bringing light, demolishing the old – All change!
Revolution on revolution yet nothing changes
Ancient foolishnesses replayed ad nauseam
Minotaurs and dinosaurs strut the halls of power
External, internal weapons of mass distraction
Eternal, essential the pulse the pulse the pulse
Distorted persists, breathes through every pore
Where would we be without our surroundings?
In a flash flood, a roar and a blaze of lightning
The walls of the citadel quiver and fall – All change!
As Alice tiptoes lightly through her looking glass
Boundless waters surround us as above so below
Rivers linger not and carry our bread away
A true love that will neither fade nor wither
Memories drift like leaves torn from a book
Even as the moving hand writes on – All change!
Evenings herald nights overburdened with
Dark eldritch dreams peopled by eery voices
“Wake up at the back there! Pay attention!”
I look around and find myself looking around
“Ninety-eight, ninety-nine …” – “All change!”
“At the third stroke …” “At the third stroke …”
Buy new improved, ditch the old – All change!
Rapine of the earth is not a spectator sport
Advertisements invade us twenty-five-seven
More and more of less is what and all we need
Emergency! Emergency! All hands on deck!
Ben Naga. (https://bennaga.wordpress.com)
Genres: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Social Commentary, Crisis.
