Any late night musings?

Mine... at the moment... is:

Someday, I am going to give so much of myself away

I won't have enough, leftover, for me.

Please tell me yours...

"We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap?"

Deep thoughts by Jack Handey?

And for your correct guess, I'll give you another!

"I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF!"

Good one! ;-)

“If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy, and people will try to catch you, because hey, free dummy.”

“Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: ‘Mankind’. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words - ‘mank’ and ‘ind’. What do these words mean ? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.”

“I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you’d probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.”

my musing would be having enough of myself left over to remember my own name by the time my head hits the pillow.

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:shrug:

http://www.restauranteur.com/ca/santabarbara/specsvcs.htm#Late%20Night

Happy late night dinning! :hi:

Thanks! :hi:

:hi:

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Just being lazy... that was supposed to be You are welcome. Are you sure you live in So. Cal.? lol ;-)

Right now I couldn't tell you where I am. :P

Don't forget how to abbreviate everything. :P

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Sorry... killed too many brain cells tonite. :(

DUSK

It's a time of quiet thinking-
Peaceful, calm, so like the surface
of a summer evening pond-
The stillness as the sun sinks down
reflects the day's last words and deeds
beneath the final light
that shines upon the water's calm-
A sweet caress, a lover's touch-
A gentle breath to ease the dying day-
A fading light to soothe
the surface of the mind...

© 2007 Steven A. Hessler
All Rights Reserved

Thank you so much for sharing that. I really like it. :)

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Wondering why people focus so much on external achievement and why they don't recognize the socioeconomic problems that prevent a lot of people from achieving the external stuff that they're capable of. I've seen it mentioned a few times on threads here today - money is freedom. The more money you have, the more choices you have.

The genes for profound intellectual giftedness exist in every population. Yet some people insist that only kids born into families with enough money and time for enrichment at home, expensive schools, and radical acceleration are gifted.

I was tested at college level and above in fifth grade. My mother boarded socks and my father had died when I was seven. There just wasn't the money and the opportunity for radical advancement, so I spent all that time in lockstep with my age peers and ended up cracking up when I finally got to college because I had never learned to study or how to learn, really.

Of course now looking back I don't think I really needed college and I'm all right with my life as it is, but still people say, "No, you have to be doing some stupid job that takes away your life and probably exploits some people somewhere and causes suffering somehow and make way too much money to matter and have worth." Screw them.

Personally, when everything goes to hell and all our predictions come true like they did with Iraq, etc, I plan to run through the streets shouting "I told you so!" until I get shot.

Since I come from highly intelligent parents, and I am not so, I tend to believe a large part is nurture-- much larger a part than most studies show. But, that's just IMHO. Anyway, I'm glad I had a thought-provoking thread.

Okay, so it's copied and pasted from my Sims 2 blog, but hey. I'm sure it was late at night when I wrote it.


I am joy. I am love. I am beautiful. I am universal.

I am child-like. I am as old as space and time.

I am whiny. I am stoic. Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I laugh. Sometimes I say mean things about strangers, and sometimes I am so overtaken by their pain that I curl up and sob.

I can be selfish. I can erase all appearances of an ego. I am, and I am not. I am real, and then I blink and fade and come back and am real again.

I am joyful noise, and I am eternal silence.

I am emptiness and the absence of form, and I am always changing.

Seems I missed some really good stuff

after I fell asleep last night. :hug:

And I thought you left DU...

So welcome back.

I'm always "leaving" DU.

Unfortunately, it is one of the most difficult addictions I've ever tried (1000X) to break.

Hope you got some rest. :)

I muse that I'd rather be posting in the lounge at 3 a.m. than going to bed.

Shitty day, I hide away.

When one finds oneself awake at 3 am, it certainly makes one think.

I hope tomorrow (today) is a better day for you.

:hug:

How much do I tell my wife about things she can't possibly influence that will simply upset her?

Right now I prefer to allow her to sleep soundly.

But also let her sleep.

When my husband keeps secrets from me

I always find out in the end anyway. ;-)

:D

(an excuse to say hi!)

:hi:

And, I have no idea what I was thinking last night...

a little overwhelmed and inebriated, I suppose. :blush:

Women do that all the time, as wives, mothers, lovers.

Even modern women, who swear they will not do it, end up giving too much.

Men seem to keep more of themselves to themselves.

We are still not raising our daughters in ways that will protect their autonomy.

nobody wants to take what we have to give.

And...yep!

Seriously, I know what you mean.

Nice to see you around. I remember your sig line and have missed your posts. :hi:

Even a friend sleeping in the next bed is no comfort. In the small hours one is truly alone with ones thoughts, so they had better be good thoughts. Otherwise the night is very long indeed.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

you speak gospel! Its the only reason I'm still up :)

:hi:

In fact, I don't think I've ever heard late night thoughts described so poignantly

and so well. :hug:

I'm happy for you! :D