For some reason Fall, the ending of Summer always reminds me of Mark Twain. Tonight the air is crisp there are leaves falling. The air is fragrant with the wafting aromas of hotdogs, hoagies, and cookies baking.....I took little yellow dog for a long walk, we admired the squirrels busy at work, and Lilly tried to play with the little girls playing hopscotch and jumping rope. And college boys playing football in between the parked cars on the street.There are others sitting on porches eating crispy apples and reading and laughing. It takes anyone back, and those years don't seem so far away.It is odd to realize that my past is colliding with my hopes for the future. An era when one believed anything was possible, and that being "Invincible" was more a state of mind , and matter of Courage.....My neighborhood is full of Law students who argue and the Med students who sit reading....I hope and pray that they value that OUR future will be in their hands someday. I hope they know that we tried to teach them well.
So now a bit of Twain and others...The door is open ...throw your best Twain this way...
" Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that,but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."
"Courage is resistance to Fear, Mastery of fear, not the absence of fear".
"You gain Strength,courage, and confidence in which you really look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do."
{ I put this Eleanor Roosevelt quote, because I thought it was Twain, but it turns out I was wrong, I think she must have read him though...}
*** Music is OLeta Adams "Get Here"*****
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I love this song by Oleta Adams and I also love her personal integrity as an artist...nice piece mama.
Coincidentally, I'm rereading Twain's "Letters from the Earth" published many yrs after his death & over the objection of his daughter, Clara. It's a sarcastic collection of short stories about the human experiment. In "The Damned Human Race", I just read this:
"I have been studying the traits & dispositions of the Lower Animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits & dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian Theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals."
Great stuff, no? ~~ D.K.
Ahhh yes, fall is beautiful, the changing colors of the leaves. Moving into a new season.
Life is change
more Twain from "The Damned Human Race" (contained in Letters from the Earth) that seem eerily applicable today:
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him & goes forth in cold blood & with calm pulse to exterminate his kind ... to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm & with whom he has no quarrel ... And in the intervals between (war) campaigns, he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man' -- with his mouth!"
"Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven."
"Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it -- or has occasion to."
Oh yeah, Letters From Earth is a very good read.
Other than Kurt V, is there any writer today, describing what they see/hear in this way anymore?
Hope all is (s)well otherwise! ; )
Cheers!
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
I have always loved fall . . . my favorite season . . . though there are things I love about every season . . .
enigma
Fall is my favorite season. I was looking at at Maqrk Twain's Quotes They are numerous and I was going to quote a few but since they are subject to personal interpretation I figured you would enjoy checking this out!
I'm getting older now, so fall seems to be the best time of the year for me.
I made a comment on your post yesterday and it never came up on the comment section of your post.
Fall is a wonderful time of the year.
My dog Winston would love frolicking in the park with yours. In fact, I took him out walking this AM when the air was still crisp and he immediately went up to a neigborhood child and gave him a wet lick of affection.
Winston wouldn't do the same for your online harasser nor would I. Here are my Blogging rules:
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My weekend visits here are always a pleasure so don't let one bozo negative detractor deter you Enigma. :)
Peace,
Cosmic
Enigma, what a beautiful video, and what a magnificant voice.
I wonder what Mark Twain would have to say about the goings on and the dishonesty in Washington today?
"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do".
Edward Everett Hale
Larry: thank you for that quote, I think Mr Hale and Mr Twain could have sat and had and beer and a smoke and been great friends...
Josie: it is a lovely video, I love her voice and that she is shown in all diffferent times of the day, and different places, but she says"get here"....whereever that is...Here is a matter of space and time...What would he say about the DC Mess..that is a really good question...I will say this, I think for sure he would have been a midnight blogger ;-)
Cosmic: thank you for all your advice and expertise...and wisdom...and yup, I know if your Fella was here he would be chewing on some ankles....We will get through this ...sigh...I have hope...because I know that there are good people in this world....good strong, wise people...
Lets Talk: me too....I love Fall...all of it, how it floods the senses..
Patriot: you are a wonder, I love the site, I went there for over an hour...I am soooo hooked...thank you so much..
Ocean: lovely to see you, all seasons are special, but some are just so embracing...
Betmo: I am not sure that is Twain, but damn it is wonderful....
CM: oh you went and mentioned my other favorite man..Kurt V...sigh..maybe we need a Vonnegut day...wouldn't that be good..???let's do it ....next friday.....all Vonnegut all day...sigh..that would be great..
DK: you win you win...you found this great book that I now need to get...hmm...I love the part about the Lower animals...and the higher...wow he nails it doesn't it?
Got Democracy: thank you for being another leaf peeper...
Hope: sigh..I know she is wonderful...I can't believe that she was not a bigger hit..I mean she is incredible...so talented...
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