Some Nice Writing

I thought I would post some snippets of good writing.

--"I'll have what she's having, basically, that was my thought."    Catherine Baab

--"puts you at the apex of originality"     Lee Siegel

--"the constant stream of Trumpian reality".    A.S. Hamrah

--"an Olympian disdain for pedestrian matters".   Me

--"the homelessness of the human spirit".     Nathan A. Scott Jr.

--"in the cafes of the Parisian Latin Quarter".   Nathan A. Scott Jr.

--"tiny events that burgeon into national alarums".    Herman Wouk

--"grouse that they face an uncertain retirement".   (The Economist)

--"And one way to climb the social ziggarat.".  Charlie Campbell

--"nature is seen as a hiding place for dread secrets".  Roger Ebert

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Quotes

Here are some interesting quotes:

--It is not true that life is one damn thing after another--it is one damn thing over and over.   Edna St. Vincent Millay

--Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.    Carl Jung

--The real gift of love is self-disclosure. John Powell

--Time discovers truth.   Latin proverb

--Within our dreams and aspirations we fund our opportunities. Sue Atchley Ebaugh

--We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us...      Marcel Proust

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Social Media

I have been listening to and reading material from the reporter and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Ressa.

She has talked about the strong negative effects of social media on society. And not just how it effects young people. She says studies have shown that social media is tilted to stress things that cause fear and anger in people and that this material has a much more pronounced effect on people than neutral or positive information would have.

I sense, way down the road, social media will be viewed as negatively as smoking is now.

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Still Struggling, with Writing

Indeed, the writing has not gone well, yet I can say I did learn something recently. For me, writing nonfiction has to be done slowly and cognitively. I've tried the common method of writing your first draft fast. It usually comes out a mess.

I'll take my own path and report back.

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