In the moment

Start of summer

We should not “feel like.” We should argue rationally, feel deeply and take full responsibility for our interaction with the world.

(via Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’ - The New York Times)

The Laughing Heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

– by Charles Bukowski

(Tom Waits reads)

My skin is kind of sort of brownish
Pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green,
But I’m told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown,
But it’s silver when it’s wet.
And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet.

by Shel Silverstein

Credit to the NYTimes for realizing that Tamil Nadu is not only overlooked, but is where it’s at! 
(via 52 Places to Go in 2016 - The New York Times)

A view from Los Gatos

Can he see me too?

So much history

“I don’t know why they buy the ticket or come to the theater if they can’t let go of the phone. It’s controlling them. They can’t turn it off and can’t stop looking at it. They are truly inconsiderate, self-absorbed people who have no public manners whatsoever.”

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Hold the Phone, It’s Patti LuPone - The New York Times

I was once at a Carnatic music concert during the December Season and the women on either side of me were both texting. One of them would send 5 text messages, then look up a the musician and say “ahaa, ahaa” in appreciation and return to more texting. 

I don’t know why they came.