Must Be Why I Like Dreamin’

Life without a daily dream is not life at all.  It is, at best, an excursion into boredom.
—    Joan Chittister
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2017	Luv Me Some Meat Loaf
2016	Unless Your Name Is #AmnestyDon
2015	A Tentative First Step
2014	Making People
2013	On Reading Books
2012	On America
2011	Shiver, Me Timbers!
2010	Fiduciary Breakdown

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Mine, Too

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep.  It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.
—    Robert M. Pirsig
From his book:  “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance“
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2016	Before You Vote In November…
2015	Two Faithful Thoughts
2014	Love Light
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2013	Nothing Ridiculous
2012	Keeping Faith
2011	Summon Us, Don’t Criticize Us
2010	Obama’s Wars – Book Review
	Game Two – Hearbreaking Loss

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Oh, Heaven (Too)

I do not myself believe that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
—    Bertrand Russell
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.  For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
—    Isaac Asimov
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On This Day In:
2017	Now Pausing Makes Sense
2016	Just Spicy
	Only One Part
2015	Positive Acts Of Creation
2014	One Thing Is Clear
2013	Corrections
	See Greatness
2012	Gemutlichkeit
2011	Back On The Asphalt

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Are You Bored, Too?

About the dumb Earthlings versus the smart Earthlings: I have known a fair number of scientists over the years, and I noticed that they were often as bored by each other’s work as dumb people would be.
—    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
From his book:  “Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons“
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