Visions

Mar. 31st, 2022 04:00 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“It is hard to tell sometimes what has been a real vision, and what is tradition, a legend hanging in the air, a “vanity” as our people call it, made use of by a story-teller here and there, or impressing itself as a real experience on some sensitive imaginative mind. For tradition has a large place in “the Book of the People” showing a sowing and re-sowing, a continuity and a new birth as in nature.”

—Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Diversity

Aug. 8th, 2016 09:50 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of “natural” behavior of humans. If Europeans and their descendant nations of North America accept something as normal, then anything different is seen as abnormal. Such a view ignores the great diversity of human existence.”

—Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity In American Indian Culture

 diverse4WP@@@

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Traditions

Dec. 23rd, 2015 11:34 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Happy holidays, everyone, whatever your traditions may be. The random quote will be on vacation until January 4, 2016.

Random quote of the day:

“Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy’s Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That’s their problem.”

—Chris Rose, “Lights in the City,” 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

 xmas4WP@@@

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: (lilith)

Random quote of the day:

“Everything is of one substance. It is custom, not reason, that sets the temple apart from the house, mutton from human flesh for the table, bread from vegetable, vegetable from meat.”

—Diogenes of Sinope, in 7 Greeks: Translations by Guy Davenport

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: (salome)

Random quote of the day:

“Everything is of one substance. It is custom, not reason, that sets the temple apart from the house, mutton from human flesh for the table, bread from vegetable, vegetable from meat.”

—Diogenes of Sinope, in 7 Greeks: Translations by Guy Davenport

 mutton4WP@@@

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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No, not the band, the peculiar Southern California winds. They've been blowing fierce all week long, mostly drying everything out and making messes of highways and trees with insecure root systems and the houses and cars unfortunate to be under them. The winds seem to be calming and last night the weatherman threatened rain sometime in the near future. But here it is Christmas Eve and the sky is a limitless blue, not a cloud. And tonight, we'll have our Christmas Eve supper at a fancy restaurant, then come home to drink aperitifs and open presents and get sillier as the aperitifs flow and the wrapping paper piles up. Tomorrow, Christmas dinner at Mom's and the season will be done...at least until New Year's.

I've been so distracted since fall with medical tests and moving and failing cars and writing projects that the season snuck up on me. I can hardly believe it's come and nearly gone. I feel as if I'm waking from a Rip Van Winkle sleep. Fortunately, I went into Automatic Present Acquisition Mode, so everyone's taken care of and I didn't have to make any last minute dashes to the mall.

So Happy Holidays to one and all. Joy in the season, however you celebrate. Even if you don't—joy.

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