“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.” William Inge
A Philosophy of Boredom III
Category: Perspective
Winter
“Pausing between clouds, the moon rests in the eyes of its beholders.” Bashō
Conversation with a Tree
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.” Thomas Hardy
A Big Head
“He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.” Ayn Rand
Intellectual Development
“Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.” Criss Jami
Notes from Underground
“We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.” Courtney M. Privett
Pattern Recognition
“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer.” Walter De Mulder
Outdoor Dining is Closed
“Nothing is off the table, and nothing is fully agreed.” Dean Johnson
Hold Your Head Up
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” Helen Keller
A Message From Rural Pennsylvania
Don, buddy, sweetie, get one of your doctors to prescribe you a chill pill, a big one. Sometimes silence is golden.
Dromedary Dissuasion
“None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.” Joe Camel, Frederick Lenz
Deep Thoughts II
“The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights.” Kristian Goldmund Aumann
