Cleanup Time: Notes & Quotes from Miscellaneous Scraps of Paper

I have a half dozen half-completed blog posts on various themes from the Founding of America to the Madness of Crowds, the Genomic Revolution and Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie." With nothing quite complete I decided to straighten my office and discard all the scraps of paper the gather on every surface like house dust. Here are some notes from a few of these miscellaneous scraps as they were discarded.

The sources, in many cases, are identified. Unfortunately, some of these are lines from films that I can no longer identify. The best way to enjoy poetry and notes from scraps of paper is to read slowly, in a contemplative frame of mind.

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Sing Your Song 

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Be Your Best Self

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In the immortal words of Popeye, "I am what I am."
Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, in Truth

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"The problem with remembering everything is that you can't forget anything."

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Why it is so important to see the night sky.

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A big lie, if repeated enough, becomes truth.

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Notes from End of the Tour

"We can't be direct so we end up saying the weirdest things."

"If you're just operating by habit, then you're not really living."

"Things don't affect people the way they used to be."

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"As great as you are you'll never be greater than yourself."
--Bob Dylan, High Water (for Charley Patton)

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"Not all who wander are lost."
Second line of JRR Tolkien's poem "The Riddle of Strider."

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Favorite Childhood Games

Geography
Battleship
Stratego
Risk
Manhunt

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Do Justly
Love Mercy
Walk Humbly
--Micah 6:8

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And so it goes...

Word of the day: Turgid