#musings

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It's a cold sun that casts long shadows.


Christopher Carosa


#science #science

Old Man River! That seems far too austere a name For something made of mirth and rage. O, roiling red-blood river vein, If chief among your traits is age, You're a wily, convoluted sage. Is "old" the thing to call what rings The vernal heart of wester-lore; What brings us brassy-myth made kings (And preponderance of bug-type things) To challenge titans come before? Demiurge to a try at Avalon-once-more! And what august vitality In your wide aorta stream You must have had to oversee Alchemic change of timber beam To iron, brick and engine steam. Your umber whiskey waters lance The prideful sober sovereignty Of faulty-haloed Temperance And wilt her self-sure countenance; Yes, righteousness is vanity, But your sport's for imps, not elderly. If there's a name for migrant mass Of veteran frivolity That snakes through seas of prairie grass And groves of summer sassafras, A name that flows as roguishly As gypsy waters, fast and free, It's your real name, Mississippi.


Tracy J. Butler


#musings #poetry #age

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.


R.D. Ronald


#philosophical #philosophical-musings #life

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business


Martin Cohen


#business

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.


Anne Baxter


#devil #distracting #duty #home #idleness

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!


Ivan Turgenev


#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.


Whitfield Diffie


#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much