Eric’s Blog

12.22.24

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12.29.24

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”

~ Melody Beattie

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11.24.24

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”.

~ Oscar Wilde

12.01.24

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.”

~ Nietzche

12.08.24

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12.15.24

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10.27.24

“Gimme.”

~ Garfield the cat, Garfield’s Halloween Adventure

11.03.24

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

~ Albert Einstein

11.10.24

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.”

~Henry David Thoreau

11.17.24

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world,”

~Mahatma Gandhi

09.29.24

“To me, Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular, great painter of all time. The most beloved, his command of colour most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.”

~ Curator, Doctor Who, Vincent and the Doctor

10.06.24

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10.13.24

“Charity if you have the means is a personal choice. Charity if expected or compelled is just a polite word for slavery.”

~ Richard Rahl

10.20.24

“The Great Pumpkin is coming!”

~ Linus Van Pelt

09.01.24

“No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful (sigh)
I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s the only place where you can get a decent meal.”

~ Groucho Marx

09.08.24

“It’s been said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things: science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable. What would you have if you put these two different things together?”

~ Rod Serling

09.15.24

“No one has all the answers, because the best questions always generate more answers.”

~ Unknown

09.22.24

“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

08.04.24

“I think I’m afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens.”

~ Charlie Brown

08.11.24

THE SERPENT. The serpent never dies. Some day you shall see me come out of this beautiful skin, a new snake with a new and lovelier skin. That is birth.
EVE. I have seen that. It is wonderful.
THE SERPENT. If I can do that, what can I not do? I tell you I am very subtle. When you and Adam talk, I hear you say ‘Why?’ Always ‘Why?’ You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ I made the word dead to describe my old skin that I cast when I am renewed. I call that renewal being born.

~ Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw

08.18.24

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08.25.24

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07.07.24

No update – vacation

07.14.24

No update – vacation

07.21.24

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own – for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.”

~ Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone – The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

07.28.24

“I don’t like to toot my own vertubenflugen.”

~Rose Nyland as played by Betty White on The Golden Girls

06.12.24

“The quality of the box matters little, success depends upon the man who sits inside it.” ~ Baron Manfred von Richtofen

06.16.24

“People are stupid…People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It’s easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth; in fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy other than himself; a sense of purpose. People are stupid, they want to believe, so they do.” ~ Zeddicus Z’ul Zorander, Wizard’s First Rule

06.23.24

“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.” ~ Bernard-Paul Heroux

06.30.24

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time –when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…”

~Carl Sagan

“The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”