Tag Archives: TCS

TCS: When the World Turns Completely Upside Down

Posted on September 4, 2023 by wordcloud9

        Good Morning! ______________________________ “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anaïs Nin “Said the Sun to the Moon–’When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in … Continue reading →

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TCS: I Toss My Shoes Overboard, Because―

Posted on August 28, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges________________ “Have you ever heard a good joke? If you’ve ever heard someonejust right, with the right pacing,then you’re already on the … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Music Will Make Your Hips Laugh

Posted on August 21, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “Do you think that anger is a sincere emotionor just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”– Andrea Gibson________________ The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of … Continue reading →

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TCS: What’s Good for the Soul

Posted on August 14, 2023 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” – Charles Bukowski _____________ “You are the lens of the world through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other … Continue reading →

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TCS: Voices That Sound Like Apple Trees and Grape Vines

Posted on August 7, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “August is the month of the high-sailing hawks …” — John Burroughs, American Naturalist________________ “When I began to listen to poetry, it’swhen I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the … Continue reading →

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TCS: What Wind Now in the Long Hot Summer Morning Stirs

Posted on July 31, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “The self is the least of it.  Let our scars fall in love.”― Galway Kinnell,American Poet___________________ “We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place … Continue reading →

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TCS: Wake Up, You’ll Need Your Wits About You

Posted on July 24, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” … Continue reading →

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TCS: You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road

Posted on July 17, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ___________________________________________ To live in this worldyou must be ableto do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go – Mary … Continue reading →

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TCS: For the Love of Dogs

Posted on July 10, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs. – James Thurber _____________ The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the … Continue reading →

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TCS: Even If They Set a Diamond in Your Glass Eye

Posted on July 3, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”– Johann Georg Hamann_____________ “Lock up your libraries if you like; butthere is no gate, no lock, no bolt that youcan set upon the freedom of my mind.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room … Continue reading →

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