Timeless Words of Wisdom...Desiderata by Max Ehrmann.

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A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Often an opinion, a custom, seems absurd when we are young, and advancing in life, we find the reason. Mustn’t we conclude that certain habits aren’t so ridiculous? One is lead to think sometimes that they were established by people who had read the entire book of life, and that they are judged by people who, despite their esprit, have only read a few pages.
 
[Souvent une opinion, une coutume commence à paraître absurde dans la première jeunesse, et en avançant dans la vie, on en trouve la raison; elle paraît moins absurde. En faudrait-il conclure que de certaines coutumes sont moins ridicules? On serait porté à penser quelquefois qu’elles ont été établies par des gens qui avaient lu le livre entier de la vie, et qu’elles sont jugées par des gens qui, malgré leur esprit, n’en ont lu que quelques pages.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 1, ¶ 21 (1795) [tr. Siniscalchi (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/770…

I grew up in #Florida, which was one of the campest places to grow up in the mid-20th century. I’ve learnt to appreciate many of the struggles I’ve experienced as a gay man come from being camp. I was #gay from the get-go, but I often tried to hide myself.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/growing-up-gay-in-the-grove-db6ab082d82c?sk=72bf9334f093f62b428ccfdd0b19ef32

Sprout (2024) [2 min] by Addison Fujimoto | #USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc6P0VWNaoo

Little Pros
Grant Hope 198
https://www.granthope.net/p/little-pros
https://youtu.be/dL5_F4akfIE

The little boy wants to fiddle with photography
the little girl just wants her photo taken in the dress that she likes
…

I had someone ask about my introduction into Punk and Metal and I had to honestly answer, my sister. When we were young we weren't allowed heavy music or anything not christian or violent video games. My sister, however, did not have a lot of fucks to give.

When she got her driver's license the radio was free. As part of her deal with my parents and having a car she got a job. She was a server. They tried to implement rules on her funds but as she was already at an age where their rules did not apply she gave them the law and the finger.

Thus led to my introduction of the now tame Led Zepplin, Godsmack, Rod Zombie, etc etc. When my parents forbade Mortal Combat she went to Blockbuster, when asked for ID, provided it and came back home. Sat me and my brother in front of the N64 and watched my parents come through the door.

She also spent her highschool in a trenchcoat and spikes and eating out her girlfriends. It's just sad that she biphobiad so hard she forgot. That she grew up into a conservative TERf and now vents that jealousy on me as the girl that got to live her life when there's nothing stopping her.

Just turns out I am infinitely more stubborn, just not as loud so now I'm still a punk, my coming out is celebrated and turned my conservative mother into a LGBT activist, and she's just a jealous conservative TERf, but I can't say I started this path without her aid and her as a role model. Regardless of what became of her.

#growingup #growth #punk #metal #lgbt

In my family, silence was safer than softness.
We didn’t do hugs. We didn’t do I’m sorrys.
I learned early that feelings made people uncomfortable. So I stopped having them — at least in front of anyone else.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/in-my-family-softness-was-a-kind-of-sin-d62309e10a1d?sk=068cbc577c157a018f39d26d13fed6d0

From as young as 8 years old I clearly remember questioning my gender, spending many nights praying that I would wake up as a boy. Thinking that would be the only way my feelings would be accepted, If I were a boy, maybe no one would see it as wrong for me to like girls. Maybe I wouldn’t have to carry this shame.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-two-worlds-i-live-in-being-lesbian-and-muslim-in-the-u-k-b3bf37f7273c

Eldest kid lost her first tooth today. I’m experiencing many emotions.

First: happiness/sadness seeing my little girl growing up.

Close second: terror thinking of what the Tooth Fairy does with all of these children’s teeth.

#GrowingUp includes taking ownership of your own #farts.

Who dealt it?
Me. I did

I'm personally bothered by the rise of #antinatalism, because I know I definitely want to have #kids.

I want to give them the #unconditional #love and #respect that I didn't get enough of #GrowingUp. I want to do my best to raise them with respect for #nature and their #community, and to be #critical but #compassionate and #OpenMinded. I know the #world is broken and it isn't on them to fix it, but I know that the last thing our world #needs is fewer #children in it.

If you have just 5 or $10 to spare… for a small kid in Kenya this makes a world of difference. https://donorbox.org/freshrain4schools
Already more than $740 came in, and the team is beginning the initial implementation to get fresh water to the school. But we are not there yet :-)
#friendlygesture #betterworld #poverty #freshwater #watercrisis #climatechange #solidarity #help #growingup #schooling #globalsouth #helpinghand #movingworlds #adulthood #drinkingwater #emergingcountries #hapiness #kenia

Little Butch Tiger isn't so little anymore. He is growing up so fast and becoming quite the big boy! Give a friendly paws up if you think he's one adorable fellow!

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 1 “Peter Breaks Through” (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/74486/

Periwinkle Daisies...yes!

Words Of Wisdom from Max Ehrmann

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Timeless words of wisdom...Desiderata.

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new post on The Winged Life !

« You Hear Me Now, » a poem about the struggles of outgrowing older versions of oneself…

· https://poligraf.substack.com/p/you-hear-me-now

#writing #writerscommunity #CreativeWriting #poetry #poems #selfpublish #authors #PoetryLovers #TheWingedLife @poetry #maturation #maturity #karma #GrowingUp #PersonalDevelopment #SelfDevelopment #humanity #KarmicProcess #PersonalGrowth #Substack

A quotation from Sayers, Dorothy:

«
Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster shells. We surround ourselves with ’em, and then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/sayers-dorothy/5964/

Well, I'm wrecked for the day.

"Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?"

Don't fill up on bread
I say absent-mindedly
The servings here are huge

My son, whose hair may be
receding a bit, says
Did you really just
say that to me?

What he doesn't know
is that when we're walking
together, when we get
to the curb
I sometimes start to reach
for his hand

—Robert Hershon

#poem
#poetry
#family
#GrowingUp
#parenthood
#SheWillAlwaysBeMyBabyGirl