sometimes it's the effort that counts

FIVE RULES FOR MEN TO FOLLOW FOR A HAPPY LIFE






gravestone marking in Logan, Utah










1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home,
       who cooks from time to time,
               cleans up and has a job.


2. It's important to have a woman who can make you laugh.


3. It's important to have a woman who you can trust
            and who doesn't lie to you.


4. It's important to have a woman who is good in bed
                      and who likes to be with you.


5. It's very, very important
       that these four women don't know each other
          or you could end up dead like me




                                            Russell J. Larsen




                              ...a cowboy's post-mortem advice
























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shared solitary confinement

when the countryside is far away
the city becomes a prison




                     




                       Christopher Alexander
                         A Pattern Language












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from....amoris laetitia

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....the words of Saint Robert Bellarmine,






.......the fact that one man unites with one woman
 in an indissoluble bond,
and that they remain inseparable
 despite every kind of difficulty,
even when there is no longer hope for children,
 can only be the sign of a great mystery.










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honesty in panhandling

   
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      WHY   LIE?


I   NEED   A    BEER




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  - indubitably-  observed on a street in seattle

l'amour serieux

Everybody says
 love is about finding
the person who is right for me
 and then everything will be fine.


But it's not like that.
 It involves work.
 An old man tells you this!






                         Alain Badiou














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thoughts after walking through downtown seattle

The louder our world today is,
the deeper
           God seems
                  to remain
                             in silence.
Silence 
is the language of eternity;


 noise passes.






                      Gertrud von Le Fort














...

let's hear it for scientific advances

The smallest nuclear weapons
that have been publicly acknowledged
are the size of a trashcan,
although suitcase bombs
are alleged to exist.






            ....a statement made on the blog entitled
                Lutheran Surrealism
















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