tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23426298807096135882024-03-05T09:07:39.924-05:00Light Up the Cave - Sparksrandom thoughts and observations.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-5697492001375178752017-07-10T14:56:00.000-04:002017-07-10T14:56:07.322-04:00Once Upon a Time, 3 Girls Fell in Love with a Broadway Show<blockquote class="tr_bq">
New York, NY. The gritty 1970s. Chain snatchers and junkies...every park a needle park...subways blind with graffiti. Garbage blew from sidewalk to sidewalk and the smell of bread still rose from the Silvercup factory. Artists and students squatted in ruined neighborhoods, homesteading Soho and the East Village; nobody lived in Brooklyn unless they'd been born there.</blockquote>
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But, if you'd caught "red velvet curtain disease," you hardly noticed. Because there was another world, on stage and off. Whether you yearned to make the magic or simply wanted to be close to it, you believed that anything was possible: which it was, even if only for a moment and not exactly as you'd imagined it would be.</blockquote>
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I know — I'm the world's worst blogger. It shocked me to see how long it's been since I posted anything here. I'm embarrassed to confess that I rarely have anything interesting to say; and when I do, it usually works it's way into a long book. Which brings me to why I suddenly appear here now, seemingly out of nowhere, with a post.<br />
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I'm pleased and proud to announce the publication of my new novel, <i>Chasing Fireflies</i>. It's a story about being young and falling in love with theatre, and it comes with it's own built-in Broadway musical. You can <a href="http://loriberhon.com/WPress/?page%20id=349" target="_blank">find a sneak peek</a> on my website.<br />
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<i>Chasing Fireflies</i> is available at Amazon outlets worldwide, in both paper and Kindle editions (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Fireflies-Broadway-story-lyrics/dp/0985384050/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499018023&sr=8-1&keywords=berhon" target="_blank">click here for Amazon US</a>). If you're torn, because you love the smell and feel of printed paper (like I do!) but also enjoy the convenience of ebooks, please note that my Amazon editions are all registered in the "matching" program: if you purchase the paperback, you can download the Kindle edition at no extra charge. And if you have a local indie bookstore you support, you should be able to order the paperback through them in a few more weeks. (if you ARE an indie bookstore, my books are distributed by CreateSpace)<br />
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Apologies to all my readers who were hoping for something more bloggy and less ad. I'll never make the grade as a blogger.. This book, and my other books, are really the best way to know what I have on my mind and in my heart.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-59500565903329415022015-04-22T20:28:00.001-04:002015-04-22T20:28:47.837-04:00One Anniversary, One Holiday, TWO Kindle Countdowns!May 1, the annual commemoration of International Workers' Day, seems like the perfect time to shout-out to readers about the novel I like to think of as the ANTI-<i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, <i>Under the Bus</i>. <a href="http://loriberhon.com/WPress/?page_id=883" target="_blank">Click here for a preview chapter</a>.<br />
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And on April 26th, I celebrate the anniversary of the publication of <i>The Breast of Everything</i> (Happy Birthday, Mam!). <a href="http://loriberhon.com/WPress/?page_id=860" target="_blank">Click here for an excerpt</a>.<br />
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What better way for me to celebrate than to run a special Tag Team Kindle Countdown?! From April 24th through May 5th, one or both of these novesl will be available at irresistible prices.<br />
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<li>The event kicks off on <b>Thursday, April 24th</b>, with <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breast-Everything-Lori-Berhon-ebook/dp/B007Z4UWS4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428872168&sr=8-1&keywords=the+breast+of+everything" target="_blank">The Breast of Everything</a></i></b>. The special price of 99 cents remains in play until the afternoon of April 27th, then a bump up to $1.99 through May 1st.</li>
<li>On <b>Sunday, April 28th</b>, <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Under-Bus-Lori-Berhon-ebook/dp/B00TOTX9S8/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1428872333&sr=8-1&keywords=under+the+bus" target="_blank">Under the Bus</a></i></b> joins in, available through May Day afternoon at the worker-friendly price of 99 cents (!), then rising to the only marginally higher $1.99 through the afternoon of May 3, with a final 60% discount price of $2.99 until the Countdown ends on May 5.</li>
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Spread the word!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-20094858345674358342015-02-17T14:34:00.000-05:002015-02-17T14:34:00.262-05:00There's a Reason They Used to Call it Vanity Press!<div class="separator tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">This is me drawing a hugh sigh of relief and announcing the imminent launch of “</span><i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Under the Bus</i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">If you’re thinking “OMG! She actually did it!” you are probably one of the couple of dozen people for whom I wrote this novel. For you guys, I note that it's available worldwide in paperback from Amazon and wherever fine self-published books are sold online (priced higher than I would have liked, but it's a whopper and that jacked up the minimum that would enable a printed edition to be available beyond Amazon) and, far more reasonably, electronically via Kindle (other e-book flavors will probably follow in a few months time). As per the usual drill, status on this will be posted on </span><span style="color: #333233; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/lori.berhon" target="_blank">my Facebook fan page</a> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">and links added to the book’s page <a href="http://www.loriberhon.com/" target="_blank">on my website</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">If you're NOT one of the OMGers, just give me a big “Yay!” for the achievement, and leave it at that. Seriously! The release of “<i>Under the Bus</i>” puts me 75% through my 4-books-come-hell-or-high-water project, a milestone I embrace with unequivocal pride and joy. And the 4</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;"> novel, “<i>Chasing Fireflies</i>” (some of you think of this as 'the theater one’), should be available within the next 14 months. All in all, a big Wahoo! But this novel, "<i>Under the Bus</i>”, might be something of a “huh?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">Let me explain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">If you follow my fan page, you may have noticed the quote I posted last month:"I don't know whether it's art or not, and I don't care. What I wanted was to show the energy and rush and confusion of American life." This was Thomas Hart Benton, talking about his 1931 mural "America Today." Except for the "rush" part (and the fact that it refers to a completely successful work of art!), it perfect captures my feelings about “<i>Under the Bus</i>.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">Like Benton, we're living in a transitional society with tons of new or disappearing experiences to capture. I chose to focus this book on what I know best: the experience of the over-educated and under-employed trying to get a grip on post-industrial, post-middle-class America. Good times! No surprise, I had a surplus of material. Then there was the bigger challenge of how to frame it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">What many people will say I "should have" done is push out a hilarious broad-stroke satire, or else craft some kind of passionate romance and/or murder to slap in the forefront of the novel and push my primary subject into the background. Instead -- and this is the Janus-headed blessing/curse of self-publishing -- I opted to follow my heart. Let's just say my heart is overly ambitious! The resulting novel, while speckled with some very nice bits, is an overblown collage that might not be particularly compelling to anyone who's not one of the previously-referenced OMG-ers. For others reading this post, even if you're super-supportive of my writing, it might be wise to sit this one out and wait for my next novel. Again, I am completely serious about this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;">Anyway, so you have a better idea of what I'm talking about, you can <a href="http://loriberhon.com/WPress/?page_id=347" target="_blank">click here for a sneak peek</a> at "Under the Bus" (w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">hich is probably the most entertaining part of the book).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">And here's the blurb:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;"><i>Waking up from the American Dream—one re-org at a time .</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;"><i>Welcome to Pinnacle Management Services. The fastest growing managed office services company in North America. Blessed with good timing and a staff of over-burdened under-paid misfits and broken toys, PMS is the paradigm of turn-of-millennium business success. From the initial growth spurt that boosted PMS from the ranks of a simple mom-&-pop shop, it’s a fast five years to the equity partnership investment that surely foreshadows an eventual public offering.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal;"><i>As CEO Kippy Melcher would tell you, he’s never made a bad decision…only sometimes he doesn’t get the results he wants. When that happens, someone has to take responsibility. And whenever that happens, well, someone else is certain to be thrown under the bus.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Reading “Under the Bus” is like meeting a friend for Happy Hour and hearing how her job is worse than yours.</i></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-5872577005178890462014-10-29T20:13:00.000-04:002014-10-29T20:13:36.948-04:00One Post to Update Them AllIf you follow me here–or anywhere–you’ll have noticed that, despite having all the usual channels, I don’t post much at the best of times. When you’re a slow writer, like me, there just isn’t time. It’s tough enough to juggle novel-writing and making a living with maintaining contact with the humans I love. Over the last year, having been not-so-gently nudged from salaried employment to contract work, I’ve been scrambling more furiously than ever.<br />
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And now, I’m heading into NaNo. The book I’d been working on has run over by about five months and is still 2 chapters shy of a complete draft (and several hundred hours shy of a final one). And even so, I’m heading into NaNo. That probably sounds counterproductive to you. Unless you’ve experienced NaNo the same way that I have. <a href="http://loriberhon.com/WPress/?p=227" target="_blank">As I blogged back in 2011</a>, "NaNo is not to be missed.” It seems somewhat ironic (in the classic, not the millennial, use of the word) that the “jolly little workplace comedy” I was kicking off that year is the same bear that I’ve been fighting to finish off (it turned out to be neither so jolly nor so little after all).<br />
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This will be my fifth consecutive November writing marathon. I look forward to it with a mixture of excitement and dread. I expect a particularly difficult run this year, a combination of escalated time pressures and a project that is fraught with emotional baggage. The book I’ll be working on, <i>Chasing Fireflies</i>, is something I’ve been waiting my entire adult life to write. Waiting and preparing. In my mind, the novels I’ve written before–whether completed or not–have been training to write this one. Am I finally ready? No matter how much you prepare, you never feel as ready as you’d like to be. Even if I am ready–enough–is NaNo the right engine to kick it off? NaNo is relentless; it’s brilliant at pushing me forward by not allowing me the luxury of deliberating over every word. But for this novel, I want to deliberate; I want to write with the beauty and fluidity of a much better writer than I am. I know (and yes, I understand it’s probably a self-fulfilling prophecy) that if I manage to push through and “win” another NaNo, I’ll end up with mostly dross.<br />
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And yet, I’m doing NaNo. Because the focus and the confidence it gives me are a gift to be treasured. I write nearly every day of the year, but it’s the month of November, National Novel Writing Month, when I feel most like A Writer. On the other hand…don’t expect to read any of my work anytime soon!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-15799471327756969912014-08-09T13:43:00.000-04:002014-08-09T13:43:18.240-04:00You want to violate the Do Not Call List? Alrighty then...Every day this week, the message queue on my landline included a string of messages from a company that calls itself Card Services. Note that name well, please: #CardServices.<br />
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You know this call. The one that tells you "this is your last chance to lower your credit card interest rates." <i>Positively the LAST</i>. Even though a few months ago you got the same series of calls. Well, maybe it's your last chance <i>this quarter</i>.<br />
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I try to ignore these. But when the messages keep rolling in all week, and on some days they call twice, my tolerance wears really thin. Especially seeing, as you probably inferred from the title of this post, this phone has been on the Do Not Call List from that registry's inception.<br />
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If anyone from Card Services reads that last sentence, they'd probably laugh themselves silly. My waving around a piddling little infraction like that is like a mosquito bite to a rhinoceros.<br />
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"Why so cynical," you ask. "How do you know this isn't a genuine service organization, generously trying to help me lower my credit card interest rates?" Okay, Devil's Advocate. Just because I knew you'd ask, when this morning's call came in, I didn't let it go to message. Instead:<br />
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<li>I picked up the phone and pressed '1.' </li>
<li>I was the 13th caller. In a mere 2 seconds, I was the 8th. A second later, an operator picked up my call. Either they have a customer-operator ration of nearly 1-to-1, or most calls last no longer than mind was about to. </li>
<li>The representative identified the company as Card Services. I repeated this name to him, and it was confirmed. I asked "which cards." He answered "all of them," going on to list Visa, Master Card, etc. </li>
<li>I asked where Card Services was located. Yes, that was all I asked. A very basic question, I would think.</li>
<li>Rather than answer, the operator queried back: "Are you responding to a call?" </li>
<li>I said "I'm responding to the <i>eight</i> calls your company has left me this week. My phone is on the Do Not..."</li>
<li>And that was it. I didn't even get to complete the sentence before he hung up. </li>
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Note that this wasn't my first attempt at getting these people off my back. Some months ago, during a similar flood of calls, I tried responding to one of the messages in my queue. The operator gave a similar description as the operator with whom I spoke today: that they served "all cards." When I pressed for more details, she stated they "are not affiliated with any one bank," and implied a kind of debt consolidation service. In that instance, when I said they were in violation of the Do Not Call List, she laughed and said smartly "Excuse me, <i>you</i> called <i>us</i>." It was only when I asked to speak with someone who would take my name off their call list that she hung up.<br />
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If Card Services was really providing a service, whether from altruism or for a big kickback from some link in the transaction chain, they would have tried to keep me on the phone and win me over. Or else, like the organizations that are exempt from observing the Do Not Call List, their operators would be taught to simple say so (politely, one hopes; I never understand why operators remotely think it'll help them get my money if the stick out a virtual tongue over this point).<br />
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You may have read my posts about a similar encounter with <a href="http://loriberhon.blogspot.com/2013/06/im-calling-about-reducing-your-power.html" target="_blank">a company wanting to lower the power bills</a> I don't have. Since I made those posts, those calls have stopped.<br />
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So let's try this again. Okay #CardServices? Stop calling me and I'll stop posting about you!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-15755457824770765532014-07-26T14:11:00.005-04:002014-07-26T14:11:53.310-04:00Dream: The Future Depends On It<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">George Takei shared this Neil deGrasse Tyson speech today on Upworthy.com. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The clip is a couple of years old, but it's important to keep this circulating. Because, as Tyson said, we've stopped dreaming. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Don't "like" or "share" this. Listen to it. <a href="http://www.upworthy.com/do-you-know-the-silly-reason-why-america-put-a-man-on-the-moon-do-you-know-why-we-stopped-going" target="_blank">Read the transcript that's been posted on Upworthy</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Especially those of you who are young enough to expect to have a long future. Especially those of you who have children or grandchildren. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The loss of dreams should terrify you. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It's a deep ache to me. I grew up in a country that was filled wi</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">th dreams. Also poverty, prejudice, inequality; economic and political uncertainties... When in human history has all that not been around? But dreams moved us forward and dreams gave us hope. Not dreams about winning the lottery or losing 15 pounds in two painless weeks. BIG dreams: dreams that create community and build worlds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">"Tomorrow is now." Eleanor Roosevelt, US First Lady</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">If you've been following this quote-of-the-day thread, you may have noticed that I've skipped the last few days. There's no excuse, except apathy. Whatever initial irritation I felt at the vacuous messages that pervaded my <i>Keep Calm and Carry On</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> calendar has been replaced by a lack of interest. It just doesn't matter enough to be worth the effort of daily commentary. Much easier to stop turning the pages of the calendar!</span><div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-68378382461084222442014-03-31T21:32:00.000-04:002014-03-31T21:32:00.226-04:00QOTD - a l'heure<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"It is not enough to run, one must start on time." French proverb</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"We will sail pathless and wild seas..." Walt Whitman, American poet</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder." Emil Zátopek, Czech runner</span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-87589754722486880732014-03-28T22:14:00.000-04:002014-03-28T22:14:09.754-04:00QOTD - in other words, carry on<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair" Edmund Burke, 18th century British statesman</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: x-small;">I doubt this is inspirational to anyone. But to people like me who already believe this, it's kind of nice to hear that someone quotable said it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew." John Greenleaf Whittier, 19th century American poet</span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-58898303875922200412014-03-25T21:14:00.000-04:002014-03-25T21:14:00.342-04:00QOTD - <br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster." Jon Bon Jovi, American musician</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">At the time, like most actors, I spent much of each week in class (acting class, dance class, singing lessons), in rehearsal for class, waiting on line for auditions, knocking on the doors of agents, taking "workshops" that were said to guarantee meetings with agents, pooling with other actors to stage "showcase" productions that we hoped would attract agents…I'm sure you've seen enough backstage movies to know what I mean. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">One day my college roommate mentioned that a mutual friend, who was also an actress, wryly described this as "being employed full time looking for work." I thought it was extremely well put. </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">But I couldn't help but point out that for the other woman, this was at least her <i>only</i> job. She was paying for all of this with a trust fund. I, on the other hand, was working a series of office jobs, </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">often on the overnight shift because it paid better, and running up credit card debt for expensive things like head shots and professional hair dye. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">To bring this back to Bon Jovi's sneaker remark, this woman and I were both in the same race and she didn't finish any better than I; we neither of us got very far</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">. However, she was a lot more comfortable in her fancy sneakers that I was running barefoot. And, thirty years later, I'm still dealing with the damage to my unprotected feet. So yeah, while fancy sneakers don't guarantee the finish, they sure make the race a whole lot easier to run.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-53716688684322851362014-03-24T21:47:00.000-04:002014-03-24T21:47:00.826-04:00QOTD - inexorable<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"History knows no resting places and no plateaus." Henry Kissinger, US diplomat</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">This doesn't inspire me. It simply reminds me how exhausted I am.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-28585876944130510322014-03-23T20:39:00.000-04:002014-03-23T20:39:00.598-04:00QOTD - paying the piper<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"We all pay for our choices, and whatever life we choose determines the kind of payment we make." EL Doctorow, American writer</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">An interesting quote from Ed Doctorow. Certainly food for thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">I would embellish this (don't I always?). "Whatever life we choose, <i>and the context of the society in which we choose it,</i> determines the kind of payment we make." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">I chose to try to live with honor and integrity. In my youth, in the late-20th century in the USA, I made a pair of idealistic choices that were bound to rebound. I chose to pursue the arts rather than go to law school or Wall Street and, not surprisingly, paid with a battered ego and massive debt. I chose to hold out for a "soul mate," and paid by living an unshared life and never having children. Two major gambles, and both lost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">So then </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">I put away childish things. I chose to pay off all my debts, and I chose to work hard on behalf of those who hired me. </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">My employers and my government did not make the same choices as I did. <i>They</i> all seem to be thriving; but the result of <i>my</i> choices </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">is that I face every day with worry and uncertainty, and my future is tenuous. </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">In the context of my own place and time, I would have to say that I chose wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">"Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better." Dwight D. Eisenhower, US President</span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-45437853224045410162014-03-21T22:07:00.001-04:002014-03-21T22:07:15.020-04:00QOTD<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"No spring -- no summer." John Ruskin, 19th century British art critic</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">No spring indeed! Today I hit the one page where the <i>Keep Calm & Carry On</i> people seem to have channelled the Farmer's Almanac. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I doubt Ruskin was alluding to an endless winter like the current one we've been weathering in my part of the world (the East coast of North America), but it makes the quote seem no less apt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">If, as seems more likely, Ruskin was nodding to the beautiful interdependence of seasons, I'm right there applauding, too. I treasure the cycle of changing seasons. Spring is so much more wondrous because it follows winter. Summer would be insufferable (to me!) if it lasted all the year long, but in it's fleeting form, I can enjoy and even cherish it. Though, if this is the point of the quote, it might be better to say "no winter -- no spring."</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-52258353643649807252014-03-20T21:07:00.001-04:002014-03-20T21:07:44.189-04:00QOTD - Catching Up<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"Happiness is the child of sweat." Lugbara proverb</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />If the QOTD is correct, then I must be happy as a clam these days. After a couple of weeks of riding the temperature roller-coaster, from balmy to frigid (or the other way 'round) in 18 hours, I wasn't surprised to catch a whopping seasonal cold. When it comes to colds, I've learned I get through it best by going old school: plenty of fluids; no dairy or chocolate; and early to bed, with a gulp of aspirin and a slather of Vicks. That last bit explains the sweating.<br />
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And the whole having a cold thing explains why I've missed a couple of days of posting. I apologize to my regular readers; but I know you'll understand (having had many a cold yourself).<br />
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Just for the record, here are the two quotes I missed posting:<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"If you don't blow your own horn, there's no music." Mario Cuomo, American politician</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"I see thee better -- in the Dark." Emily Dickinson, American poet</span><br /><br /><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-11354536726734686252014-03-17T20:48:00.000-04:002014-03-17T20:48:00.598-04:00QOTD - Merrily merrily merrily<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"Nodding the head does not row the boat." Irish proverb</span></blockquote>
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I assume the calendar folks wanted something Irish for St. Patrick's Day. Considering all the wonderful possibilities, this is what they came up with?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-23443799155910237812014-03-16T21:21:00.000-04:002014-03-16T21:21:01.191-04:00QOTD - Labor day<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"Not all the labor of the earth is done by hardened hands." Will Carleton, American poet</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"></span>Less and less, as it happens. But I would say that none of the labor of the earth is done by hardened <i>hearts</i>. Anyone in that state tends to pass of the labor to others, while assuming all credit and/or benefit.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"All men are preparted to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened." Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss writer</span></blockquote>
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I wish this were true. But I don't think it is. Which says nothing about Hesse's statement, but everything about the devaluation of ideals in the society in which I live.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">"No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do." Dorothy Day, American activist.</span></blockquote>
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I mostly complain about how poorly the quotes in this calendar fit the Keep Calm and Carry On motif. But I read today's page with a big nod of agreement. I'd never heard this quote before, but the sentiments are very much in keeping with what I tell myself on a bad day. It's not about not feeling hopeless, you understand. I often feel hopeless. Hopeless, angry, frustrated, dismayed. But I hardly ever sit down and fall into it. I tell myself that's a luxury I can't afford. There's far too much that needs to be done. After so many years of fighting, I've learned that I draw strength from action, from taking back even a shred of control and refusing to be beaten down. This isn't hope, but it is endurance. There are many shades of darkness. Action may not lead to light, but it can push back against the worst.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else." Joseph Jourbet, 19th century French essayist</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"></span>Keep the integrity of your own self, and do no harm to others. While continuing to roll through life.<br />
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Yes, this pebble in the stream idea appeals to me more than being a candle in the wind.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-74749152816470590222014-03-12T20:19:00.002-04:002014-03-12T20:19:40.337-04:00QOTD (and a plug for Cosmos)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"If we don't watch what we're doing, we can make great troubles for ourselves." Carl Sagan, American astronomer</span></blockquote>
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In honor of today's quote (with which I cannot quarrel), I decided to post this link to a YouTube channel where you can watch episodes of the original Cosmos.<br />
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And don't forget to watch Neil deGrasse Tyson in <a href="http://www.cosmosontv.com/" target="_blank">the new Cosmos.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07228900214606576036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342629880709613588.post-23653405441882522014-03-11T20:34:00.001-04:002014-03-11T20:34:41.300-04:00QOTD - so what else is new?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">"Still fisheth he that catcheth one." George Herbert, 17th century British poet</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">Well of course he does. Because nothing succeeds like success. But why should those of us who haven't caught so much as a minnow keep fishing? We're the people who need the inspiration, Calendar People -- not the people who are already reeling them in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;"><i>Quotes-of-the day from the 2014 <u>Keep Calm & Carry On</u> desk calendar</i></span>
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