Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going,
don’t take anything too seriously,
it’ll all work out in the end.David Niven
Category Archives: HALTS
Hungry flies bite sore
Make yourself all honey, and the flies will devour you. Ital.
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again. Benjamin Rush.
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
― Susan Polis Schutz
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 24 December 1938,
“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey
a buen hambre no hay mal pan
beggars can’t be choosers.
(lit.: for strong hunger there’s no bad bread; used in Colombia)
http://www.languagerealm.com/spanish/spanishproverbs.php
A full person does not understand the needs of the hungry.
— Irish
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors
The best thing about tea, above everything else, is that it lubricates the grey matter.
A pig painted gold is still a pig.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
Ingrid Newkirk
Go to bed; tired is stupid.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
“I now realize what Dorothy means in the final scene from The Wizard of Oz, when she says that if you have to look beyond your front door for your heart’s desire, perhapsit was never there to begin with. Maybe, like Dorothy, I should embrace the love right in front of me and not search for some elusive dream that never mattered in the first place.”
― Jodee Blanco, Please Stop Laughing at Me… One Woman’s Inspirational Story
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.
Marina Lewycka, We Are All Made Of Glue
“The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
― Stephen King, Night Shift
“It didn’t seem the right time to tell him where the worst monsters hide. They conceal themselves cleverly inside our heads and wait for the moments we’re at our most vulnerable – bedtime, or when we’re sick or anxious.”
― Helen Brown, Cleo
“The illusory feeling that it is good for us to be alone – is a Bad spiritual symptom; just as lack of appetite is a bad medical symptom because men do really need food.” ― C.S Lewis
“Alcohol is used by millions of people, both men and women, and I will make no friends by taking the position that alcohol culture is not politically correct. Yet how can we explain the legal toleration for alcohol, the most destructive of all intoxicants, and the almost frenzied efforts to repress nearly all other drugs? Could it not be that we are willing to pay the terrible toll that alcohol extracts because it is allowing us to continue the repressive dominator style that keeps us all infantile and irresponsible participants in a dominator world characterized by the marketing of ungratified sexual fantasy?”
― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
“I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine” Albert Camus, The Stranger
“Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That’s about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
“You are always dragging me down,’ said I to my Body. ‘Dragging _you_ down!’ replied my Body. ‘Well I like that! Who taught me to like tobacco and alcohol? You, of course, with your idiotic adolescent idea of being "grown up". My palate loathed both at first: but you would have your way. Who put an end to all those angry and revengeful thoughts last night? Me, of course, by insisting on going to sleep. Who does his best to keep you from talking too much and eating too much by giving you dry throats and headaches and indigestion? Eh?’ ‘And what about sex?’ said I. ‘Yes, what about it?’ retorted the Body. ‘If you and your wretched imagination would leave me alone I’d give you no trouble. That’s Soul all over; you give me orders and then blame me for carrying them out.”
― C.S. Lewis
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.”
― John Ruskin
Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):
1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don’t hit people.
4. Put thngs back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
7. Say you’re SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life – learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup – they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first workd you learned – the biggest word of all – LOOK.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Good sense is no less important than food.
"A miscellany of Irish proverbs"
“Typical bloody sheep,” he thought, “they’ve got no common sense,
“They won’t go through a gateway but they’ll jump a bloody fence.”
stop the blue pelican before it chokes on the pie
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What a wonderful beast in the pelican,
Whose bill can hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week-
And I’m damned
If I know
How the helican.
foto – pelicans in urunga 2010
hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings
"A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs: COMP. From The Best Authorities In The …"
Throw that bone to another dog."
Play that trick upon another, ’twill not pass with me.
Mean clothes will keep out cold and ordinary meats satisfy hunger. Turkish Spy.
"Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically"
Camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente. / The shrimp that sleeps is carried away by the current. Spanish proverb
It’s amazing what can happen while we’re not paying attention. Who knows how many opportunities you can miss with a complacent attitude? Stay "awake" if you don’t want to find yourself drifting far from your intended path.
Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/27830.aspx#ixzz0nF9dC8Pm
foto – horse at raleigh 2010
Five seize, twice sixteen tear, all the rest the flavour share. (Bengalese). The five fingers grasp the food, twice sixteen teeth divide and masticate it, and the tongue tastes it — while the whole body is refreshed and strengthened by it.
"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones. – Proverbs 17:22
foto – sky above raleigh corral.
To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live ninety and nine. French.
"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
For some of us happiness comes while we sleep.
French
http://creativeproverbs.com/cgi-bin/sql_search3cp.cgi?boolean=and&field=all&frank=all&keyword=sleep
foto – andrew the bard at bello in april 2010
Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. Maude Barlow
"The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling."
Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields
Cicadas can’t vibrate their wings when the humidity is very high, so may be silent when rain is approaching. Flying insects are more active when the air pressure drops and stay closer to the ground, so they seem to be swarming before a rain storm.
http://www.wxdude.com/proverb.html
"The fakir upon his bed of nails is happier than is that
Toughness of hide could blunt more ills,
Than can be dodged or fought,
The lesson is well taught.
And happiness, pivoted elate
On peace of mind, health, sleep,
Food kindered, good support like that
Knows to where wounds can creep
Or suddenly sink deep."
Robert D Fitzgerald. “Glad World”
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. Zora Neale Hurston
"The way one eats is the way one works."
Czechoslovakia
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foto – ulmarra kitchen dec 2009
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I desire Some sensual thing For the tongue To soothe the body. Lindsay Rabbit.
When diet is wrong medicine is of no use.
When diet is correct medicine is of no need.
Ayurvedic
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foto – new leaf cafe murwillumbah nsw dec 09
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Digging potatoes is always an adventure, somewhat akin to fishing. There is forever the possibility that the next cast – or the next thrust of the digging fork – will turn up a clunker. Jerome Belanger
CATHY SONG
Like the cockroach, the displaced
have crawled through the cracks
and selected for themselves
an agreeable niche.
A place to start from scratch.
They thrive in the vegetable air.
You wonder how you’ll survive,
unfit, unable to work.
Lacking the predatory skills,
you’ve stayed in the trees,
a dreamer, all your life,
even now wanting to believe
a change of scenery
will get you back on your feet.
A brief hiatus in the vegetable air.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172140
foto – vegie garden in bilambil december 2008
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 