commonplace book

the changing light

lawrence ferlinghetti (poem excerpt) when the new night fog floats inAnd in that vale of light the city drifts anchorless upon the ocean https://poets.org/poem/changing-light

A man who was true to the craft, Julian P. “Pappy” Van Winkle Sr.’s mantra was “We make fine bourbon at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon.”

“There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith

The universe conspires

That Paolo Coehlo line from The Alchemist: “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

‘The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.’–Paul Virilio

Ulysses

“Ulysses”: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”