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you ask this
Why were the former days better than these? For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. -Ecclesiastes 7:10
Sam Baker
Dec 17, 20211 min read
enriching all of the universe
The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the...
Sam Baker
Dec 17, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Dec 17, 20210 min read
as the night the day
Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man....
Sam Baker
Dec 16, 20211 min read
in golden suits
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. -John Cheever
Sam Baker
Dec 16, 20211 min read
all that's left
The summer's grass! all that's left of ancient warriors' dreams. -Basho
Sam Baker
Dec 16, 20211 min read
to them all
…but time and chance happeneth to them all. —Ecclesiastes
Sam Baker
Dec 16, 20211 min read
standing water
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. —William Blake
Sam Baker
Dec 16, 20211 min read
at certain moments
At certain moments, a single almost insignificant sorrow may, by association, bring together all the little epics of pain and discomfort,...
Sam Baker
Dec 16, 20211 min read
the questions now
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the...
Sam Baker
Dec 14, 20211 min read
for the candle makers
I have a candle lighted for the candle makers. thanks Ginna for the perspective
Sam Baker
Dec 14, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Dec 14, 20210 min read
wing
Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing. —Emily Dickinson
Sam Baker
Dec 10, 20211 min read
to number our days
So teach us to number our days that we apply our hearts unto wisdom.- Psalms xc. v. 12.
Sam Baker
Dec 10, 20211 min read
not a state
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. -William Blake
Sam Baker
Dec 10, 20211 min read
switches
If a thing loves, it is infinite. - William Blake
Sam Baker
Dec 10, 20211 min read
Eternity in an hour
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. -...
Sam Baker
Dec 10, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Dec 9, 20210 min read
to sit quietly
All of humanity’s problems, stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. -Blaise Pascal
Sam Baker
Dec 8, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Dec 3, 20210 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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