An app by any other name
I have an “Anxiety App” that generates anxiety. It’s also called “Fires near me”
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Bon mots
Under the influence
I’ve always been the trendsetter who set a trend of not setting trends
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The lost generation
When I see an unusual familiar name in the news, I think, “Oh that must be the daughter (or son) of someone who I once knew”. Turns out, these days, it’s usually a grandchild.
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General Donald J. Trump
Viewed from afar, in ignorance, really, and with no dog in the hunt, no skin in the game, no horse in the race, it seems to me that America has recently refought her Civil War, but this time the South won.
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Or beetles
I don’t tread on ants carelessly, or thoughtlessly, or recklessly, or deliberately, in fact I don’t tread on ants at all.
Paradox
If I had known then what I know now, I would have done some things differently, would have done different things. But then I wouldn’t have known the same things now as I knew just a moment ago.
One man in his time
We all, I think make the mistake, of confusing actors with the roles they play on stage. But we are all actors on the stage of life. Don’t confuse me with roles I play.
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Better late
I reached my seventies, it seemed, in a rush. Suddenly I was wandering in a forest of years: 71, 77, 73, 78, 74, and look, over there, at the edge of the forest, is 79. And I think, “I won’t be in this forest very long, for I am running through it. I should make
Teredo
Ship worms do to the hull of the old wooden boat what ageing does to the body of the old human being.