"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world."

John Burroughs

True Confessions

I'm in a bad mood. So, when this happens I don't feel like talking. Or writing...about technology, deep thoughts, amusing trivia, or anything else.

For some unknown reason, I always feel the need to be relentlessly upbeat when I write in this blog. But it's too much pressure, especially when I'm not feeling even remotely "perky" or "chipper." Actually, "taciturn" is a pretty good description of my current mental state. Thus my silence.....which I just stepped out of .....temporarily.

Good words, even if you don't -- just at this moment -- feel particularly silly:

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e.e. cummings

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I'm feeling dialectical tonight...possibly even labile....

Much to my amazement -and possible chagrin, since I'm no Freudian- I'm thinking admiringly about Freud having made the comment, "One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." And I'm trying to remember that a thing of beauty is a joy forever.