Days And Nights
[This post today of my favorite reads, or most readable reads, or something like that from the second half of March 2016 was going to be titled "Out Like A Lamb" based on that rhyme about March going in like a lion and ... but I got to the end and I changed my mind. I can do that, you know. Enjoy! -- David]
1. Facebook is so depressing o.o dear lord this is why I never check this mess.
2. We have tons of people that hate [Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon A Time] but yet they still forget the good he has done. Did he not sacrifice himself when Pan his dad was in storybooke? Did he not try to help his dad when he was a little boy? When Emma and Hook went back in time and rumple asked did he find Bae did he not make himself forget so he didn't mess with the future?
He lost his wife. He lost his fight with Hook. He lost his son. He lost his dad. Deep down I know he wants to be good. He's just scared of being hurt. Can't blame the guy. He wins at being dark. So why not be who you're good at.
3. I'm working on a map and my daughter just got out of bed and came down to my office for an extra hug and kiss. She saw my work and asked me what I was making, and I told her that I was working on writing a book. Her eyes got all big and she said, in a hushed tone, "You're gonna be your own author? Authors are so cool."
4. You!
Hey you!
Internet person!
Internet person that likes to write!
...
11. Kinda frustrated there arent many videos on youtube talking about Batmans mental state. He is extremely rational, a genius, etc yet also exhibits a lot of mentally unstable traits that I wish people would delve into a bit more.
He is unable to form attachments or love relationships (apart from some one offs) which is in contrast to the joker, who has Harley quinn
He prefers dark, black themes, contrasted with jokers colorful themes, and is brooding whereas joker is happy, chuckling etc
He also does not identify at all as bruce wayne, which he sees as a facade and the batman is his real identity. But even further than than, he often refers to both in the third person.
He is also a bit paranoid.
12. Jeffrey: Why is he a jerk?
Sarah: Because that's what he wanted to be.
(Our kids Jeffrey and Sarah, explaining why the villain did what he did in the movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians which we'd watched again that night.)
13. Love is never final -- there's always a sequel or the hope for one.
(Robert Fulghum, True Love)
14. We built our stories to conceal truths that we would need again.
(Alex Irvine, Transformers: Exiles)
15. The funeral was the metal long two
(translated from this Poster's Vietnamese)
16. If you open up your eyes
Don't tell me what you mean to me
Sarah Alvin, 032016, singing 1535 hrs
17. Real women aren't perfect, and perfect women aren't real!!!
18. It comes in waves. Bad news and more bad news.
We. Will. Get. Through. This.
Even though I have to remind myself that our record for getting through tough times is 100%, it is still difficult when everything hits at once. Circumstances do not define our future.
Diamonds are made under pressure.
WE are going to SHINE like a class O BLUE SUN one day!
19. God reminded me today that it takes fire to produce gold in our lives.
20. This morning I hit a milestone - something I had set as my goal.
I reached 1200 followers!
21. What are we doing to ourselves? Shooting each other for not speaking English, terrorist bombings, murder/suicides...we need deep and immediate change in our hearts and souls and minds. Please pray for peace for our battered world.
22. “I graduated fifteen years ago with a degree in theater, but I wasn’t really doing anything with it. I was working at a theater box office. I was writing just enough so that I could tell people I was a ‘playwright.’ I’d tell my wife I was going to the coffee shop to write, but I’d end up just staring at the screen. I was about to give up completely. The city has a way of crowning young geniuses that makes you feel old. But my wife always had an unending belief that I had something to offer. It got to the point where even that belief was hard to hear because it made me feel like I was letting her down. Finally a friend of mine convinced me to do a small reading at his theater. He just kept bothering me about it. And when I finally agreed, so many other people stepped forward to help. I wasn’t living in the vacuum I thought I was. Once I lit the fire, people came and sat around it. So many people were willing to lend their craft to my idea. I’ve put on four plays in the past three years. They’ve all been very small productions. I’m much more frantic and stressed now. I lay awake at night wondering if I’m going to sell any tickets. But at least my life has urgency and purpose. My wife is proud of me. Though now I’m sure she wishes I wasn’t so absentminded. And that I’d remember to close the front door. And that our living room wasn’t always filled with props.”
(from the website/blog/ongoing project Humans of New York)
23. They don't make them, like that, anymore. I kinda wish there was more [Glen A., the creator of many Many MANY television series, among them Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Knight Rider] Larson style imagination & creativity, in sci-fi these days, instead of a constant quest to make everything boringly realistic. The result is overthought superhero movies, and airtight "Martian" stories. This isn't bad in itself, but sci-fi should be showing us a much larger "What if", instead of showing us what the future would be like, if very little changed, except for small changes in technology.
24. I judge for myself. Many acclaimed films bore the crap out of me and many panned films entertain me greatly. Hell, judging something subjective is opinion based and not gospel. I will give this a chance and then decide.
(this was in reference to the ongoing fascinations and frustration with the new movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice -- viewers seem to love it and critics seem to hate it, how will this end?)
25. Most men cant think high enough to impress a true classy woman
26. That's why cars have a small mirror to look back, but the windshield is much bigger, it's ok to glance back at where you have been. But it's more important to know where your going!
27. I made it to Paris! A huge thank you to everyone who helped calm my little panic last week. I don't travel well so this was a bit daunting for me. Paris huge and the architecture is beautiful and it's very vibrant. Protips so far: If you get lost, find a metro because there will always be a map. Don't follow road signs (they're white) because there seem to be signs for pedestrians (they're blue). Here is a blurry picture of the Seine from Pont Neuf.
28. The saddest part of this is I can see this guy suing either the people who made the mower or the people who make the Tannerite [an explosive marketed for firearms practice], because "How was I supposed to know it was dangerous to shoot at a machine with moving parts and explosives?"
29. Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
30. [Poster]: "If Jesus knew that his sacrifice would be celebrated with rabbits and colored eggs, He'd spin around in His grave. Problem is, He didn't stay in the grave long enough to do that."
[Poster's Wife]: "Hehehe!"
32. Got my first bad review on [this Poster's novel] this morning, like, baaaaad. Two star, said it read like a poor first draft. I saw it a moment after answering [another Poster's] question about "how to make someone feel better after a bad review". Yeah, he saw it first.
You know what? I'm glad. It was my first actual bad review and by a person with about 1.4k bad reviews under their belt. More importantly, it showed me something super important. I have friends. People who care and support me and know exactly what to do to make sure I don't freak out about stuff like that. They are more important than any review, good or bad.
33. Okayyyy, so I've been in a bit of a funk lately... a combination of things had me in this funk. Having time off away from some of the stresses really helps put things into perspective- at least for me it does. I've faced opposition since before I was born- that's another story, though. So, it shouldn't come as a surprise when opposition rears its ugly head at this stage of my life. I must remember that it is at the time my breakthrough is about to manifest that opposition wil...l appear. It is at that time I must pass the tests & prepare for reposition.
I say that, to say this: Never assume you know my struggles nor the origin of my struggles. If you want to know something about me, ask me! I was born on the cusp of Gemini & Cancer. I'm the type of person to let you assume & then give you something to talk about...
34. It's time to go CHASE MY DREAMS instead of putting MY LIVELYHOOD in someone else's hands, while I help them build THEIR DREAM!!!! I'm down BUT I'M NOT OUT!!! I let the world see my darkest, hardest days, so you ALL will be a witness to the MIRACLE and the breakthrough he's about to perform for MY LIFE!!! I don't see it, it might even take him years to work THIS one out ... Idk wats gonna happen between NOW AND THEN ... BUT I KNOW MY GOD HAS BROUGHT ME THRU DAYS AND HARD TIMES THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL NEVER WITNESS IN THEIR LIVES ... I'M a LIVING, walking, TESTIMONY ... AND I KNOW HE DIDN'T BRING ME THIS FAR TO LEAVE ME HERE!!!! I DON'T ask for ANYTHING to become easier Lord, ALL I ask for is STRENGTH and WISDOM to make it thru WHATEVER I MUST ENDURE ... AMEN!!!!
35. Lifted out of ourselves, ironically, we become who we are.
(David L. Miller, 033016, Christ In Our Home)
Hey you!
Internet person!
Internet person that likes to write!
...
I don't care what you write. I don't care how you write it. I don't care what techniques you use, what rules you follow, or what rules you break.
I don't care if you're trying to be a published author, or just write something to read to your kids before bed.
I don't care if you want to make millions, or if you just want to effect someone's life.
Because you know what? You -write-. And that makes you brilliantly, wonderfully, beautifully special.
So keep it up, yeah?
>This positive message has been brought to you by my frustrating day<
5. In 1962 my genius grandfather bet my genius dad $10 that he couldn't fold a piece of paper 10 times, so my dad emptied his piggy bank, went to the store and bought an 8.5x11 piece of GOLD LEAF PAPER. Every time he folded it, my dad would pound the shit out of the gold leaf with a hammer. By the time he had 10 folds, the sheet had barely even shrunk down at all. He got that $10. I wonder what happened to our bloodline.
6. English is yellow, maths is blue, science is green.
7. Typically I won't pick up a book if it has these words in the title: Shade/Shades, wanting, betrayal, eternal, passion/passionate, embrace, loneliness, kiss/kissing, or book, (too redundant, like tuna-fish, it just annoys me); However, if you add "And a llama" to any said book title I will probably pick it up Ex: Shades of Wanting and A Llama, Eternal Passion and a Llama, The Passionate Embrace of Loneliness and a Llama, The Kissing Book and a Llama. Out of morbid curiosity, I would be compelled to read at least the first chapter of any of those books.
8. Writing should not only be about putting ourselves into the world, but about exploring new thing we ourselves can't or won't do.
9. Yesterday I saw something on the news that bugged me some what.
It said the mayor of New York city was going to lift his protest about the LBGT being in the Saint Patrick's day parade. And it showed about group of them marching with the rainbow flags and so on.
But here's why it bugs me, gay activist on the one hand say that they want to be treated just like everyone else. O.K but if that is the case why not just come down without the rainbow flags, and be in the parade? Just... like everybody else?
After all Saint Patrick's day has nothing to do with sex, or gender, or sexual orientation. But it's about those of Irish heritage. Taking pride of the heritage!
After all isn't there a gay pride day any way?
Which is fine they have that right to do that sort of thing. And I think most people like myself don't care who is gay or strait.
But it seems to be a little hypocritical to say they want to be treated just like everyone else. But yet have to make a point to let everyone know they are different as well.
10. I just completely organized my books and used my one smaller bookshelf that books don't really fit on so I use it for storage to put all of my smaller books on because I'm going to a booksale to buy more books
I don't care if you're trying to be a published author, or just write something to read to your kids before bed.
I don't care if you want to make millions, or if you just want to effect someone's life.
Because you know what? You -write-. And that makes you brilliantly, wonderfully, beautifully special.
So keep it up, yeah?
>This positive message has been brought to you by my frustrating day<
5. In 1962 my genius grandfather bet my genius dad $10 that he couldn't fold a piece of paper 10 times, so my dad emptied his piggy bank, went to the store and bought an 8.5x11 piece of GOLD LEAF PAPER. Every time he folded it, my dad would pound the shit out of the gold leaf with a hammer. By the time he had 10 folds, the sheet had barely even shrunk down at all. He got that $10. I wonder what happened to our bloodline.
6. English is yellow, maths is blue, science is green.
7. Typically I won't pick up a book if it has these words in the title: Shade/Shades, wanting, betrayal, eternal, passion/passionate, embrace, loneliness, kiss/kissing, or book, (too redundant, like tuna-fish, it just annoys me); However, if you add "And a llama" to any said book title I will probably pick it up Ex: Shades of Wanting and A Llama, Eternal Passion and a Llama, The Passionate Embrace of Loneliness and a Llama, The Kissing Book and a Llama. Out of morbid curiosity, I would be compelled to read at least the first chapter of any of those books.
8. Writing should not only be about putting ourselves into the world, but about exploring new thing we ourselves can't or won't do.
9. Yesterday I saw something on the news that bugged me some what.
It said the mayor of New York city was going to lift his protest about the LBGT being in the Saint Patrick's day parade. And it showed about group of them marching with the rainbow flags and so on.
But here's why it bugs me, gay activist on the one hand say that they want to be treated just like everyone else. O.K but if that is the case why not just come down without the rainbow flags, and be in the parade? Just... like everybody else?
After all Saint Patrick's day has nothing to do with sex, or gender, or sexual orientation. But it's about those of Irish heritage. Taking pride of the heritage!
After all isn't there a gay pride day any way?
Which is fine they have that right to do that sort of thing. And I think most people like myself don't care who is gay or strait.
But it seems to be a little hypocritical to say they want to be treated just like everyone else. But yet have to make a point to let everyone know they are different as well.
10. I just completely organized my books and used my one smaller bookshelf that books don't really fit on so I use it for storage to put all of my smaller books on because I'm going to a booksale to buy more books
11. Kinda frustrated there arent many videos on youtube talking about Batmans mental state. He is extremely rational, a genius, etc yet also exhibits a lot of mentally unstable traits that I wish people would delve into a bit more.
He is unable to form attachments or love relationships (apart from some one offs) which is in contrast to the joker, who has Harley quinn
He prefers dark, black themes, contrasted with jokers colorful themes, and is brooding whereas joker is happy, chuckling etc
He also does not identify at all as bruce wayne, which he sees as a facade and the batman is his real identity. But even further than than, he often refers to both in the third person.
He is also a bit paranoid.
12. Jeffrey: Why is he a jerk?
Sarah: Because that's what he wanted to be.
(Our kids Jeffrey and Sarah, explaining why the villain did what he did in the movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians which we'd watched again that night.)
13. Love is never final -- there's always a sequel or the hope for one.
(Robert Fulghum, True Love)
14. We built our stories to conceal truths that we would need again.
(Alex Irvine, Transformers: Exiles)
15. The funeral was the metal long two
(translated from this Poster's Vietnamese)
16. If you open up your eyes
Don't tell me what you mean to me
Sarah Alvin, 032016, singing 1535 hrs
17. Real women aren't perfect, and perfect women aren't real!!!
18. It comes in waves. Bad news and more bad news.
We. Will. Get. Through. This.
Even though I have to remind myself that our record for getting through tough times is 100%, it is still difficult when everything hits at once. Circumstances do not define our future.
Diamonds are made under pressure.
WE are going to SHINE like a class O BLUE SUN one day!
19. God reminded me today that it takes fire to produce gold in our lives.
20. This morning I hit a milestone - something I had set as my goal.
I reached 1200 followers!
21. What are we doing to ourselves? Shooting each other for not speaking English, terrorist bombings, murder/suicides...we need deep and immediate change in our hearts and souls and minds. Please pray for peace for our battered world.
22. “I graduated fifteen years ago with a degree in theater, but I wasn’t really doing anything with it. I was working at a theater box office. I was writing just enough so that I could tell people I was a ‘playwright.’ I’d tell my wife I was going to the coffee shop to write, but I’d end up just staring at the screen. I was about to give up completely. The city has a way of crowning young geniuses that makes you feel old. But my wife always had an unending belief that I had something to offer. It got to the point where even that belief was hard to hear because it made me feel like I was letting her down. Finally a friend of mine convinced me to do a small reading at his theater. He just kept bothering me about it. And when I finally agreed, so many other people stepped forward to help. I wasn’t living in the vacuum I thought I was. Once I lit the fire, people came and sat around it. So many people were willing to lend their craft to my idea. I’ve put on four plays in the past three years. They’ve all been very small productions. I’m much more frantic and stressed now. I lay awake at night wondering if I’m going to sell any tickets. But at least my life has urgency and purpose. My wife is proud of me. Though now I’m sure she wishes I wasn’t so absentminded. And that I’d remember to close the front door. And that our living room wasn’t always filled with props.”
(from the website/blog/ongoing project Humans of New York)
23. They don't make them, like that, anymore. I kinda wish there was more [Glen A., the creator of many Many MANY television series, among them Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Knight Rider] Larson style imagination & creativity, in sci-fi these days, instead of a constant quest to make everything boringly realistic. The result is overthought superhero movies, and airtight "Martian" stories. This isn't bad in itself, but sci-fi should be showing us a much larger "What if", instead of showing us what the future would be like, if very little changed, except for small changes in technology.
24. I judge for myself. Many acclaimed films bore the crap out of me and many panned films entertain me greatly. Hell, judging something subjective is opinion based and not gospel. I will give this a chance and then decide.
(this was in reference to the ongoing fascinations and frustration with the new movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice -- viewers seem to love it and critics seem to hate it, how will this end?)
25. Most men cant think high enough to impress a true classy woman
26. That's why cars have a small mirror to look back, but the windshield is much bigger, it's ok to glance back at where you have been. But it's more important to know where your going!
27. I made it to Paris! A huge thank you to everyone who helped calm my little panic last week. I don't travel well so this was a bit daunting for me. Paris huge and the architecture is beautiful and it's very vibrant. Protips so far: If you get lost, find a metro because there will always be a map. Don't follow road signs (they're white) because there seem to be signs for pedestrians (they're blue). Here is a blurry picture of the Seine from Pont Neuf.
28. The saddest part of this is I can see this guy suing either the people who made the mower or the people who make the Tannerite [an explosive marketed for firearms practice], because "How was I supposed to know it was dangerous to shoot at a machine with moving parts and explosives?"
29. Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
30. [Poster]: "If Jesus knew that his sacrifice would be celebrated with rabbits and colored eggs, He'd spin around in His grave. Problem is, He didn't stay in the grave long enough to do that."
[Poster's Wife]: "Hehehe!"
31. So today during mass the Bishop held a long beautiful speech about how we should all pray for Belgium and our brothers and sisters who praise the Lord who has Risen again.
While I do not disagree with him, I felt the speech was inadequate. Not his lack of sincerity but his lack of, well, widespreadness.
Yes, it is true that Belgium suffered a tragic event when not only Zaventem airport was hit with twin bombs, killing eleven people, but also Maelbeek metro station near EU h...eadquarters an hour later, leaving about twenty people dead.
While I do not disagree with him, I felt the speech was inadequate. Not his lack of sincerity but his lack of, well, widespreadness.
Yes, it is true that Belgium suffered a tragic event when not only Zaventem airport was hit with twin bombs, killing eleven people, but also Maelbeek metro station near EU h...eadquarters an hour later, leaving about twenty people dead.
Of course, these should all be remembered HOWEVER when he said that "we should pray for our brothers and sisters who believes in the Lord who has Risen" it struck a nerve.
Yes, pray for Belgium. Pray for Belgium that they may recover from these bombings. But pray for Baghdad as well, pray for the families left behind after a suicide bomber went into a football stadium with children and families and detonated, killing an estimate of forty-one and injuring more than a hundred.
Most if not all who were killed in this attack were Muslim.
On both occasions, Daesh has taken responsibility.
So pray, not only for Belgium but for everyone, Catholic and Muslim alike, pray for the peace and for Daesh to be stopped in their murderous spree. They have not declared war on Christians. They have declared war on humanity, they want us to be afraid.
So pray, for the world. Not only Belgium and France, the entire world.
Yes, pray for Belgium. Pray for Belgium that they may recover from these bombings. But pray for Baghdad as well, pray for the families left behind after a suicide bomber went into a football stadium with children and families and detonated, killing an estimate of forty-one and injuring more than a hundred.
Most if not all who were killed in this attack were Muslim.
On both occasions, Daesh has taken responsibility.
So pray, not only for Belgium but for everyone, Catholic and Muslim alike, pray for the peace and for Daesh to be stopped in their murderous spree. They have not declared war on Christians. They have declared war on humanity, they want us to be afraid.
So pray, for the world. Not only Belgium and France, the entire world.
32. Got my first bad review on [this Poster's novel] this morning, like, baaaaad. Two star, said it read like a poor first draft. I saw it a moment after answering [another Poster's] question about "how to make someone feel better after a bad review". Yeah, he saw it first.
You know what? I'm glad. It was my first actual bad review and by a person with about 1.4k bad reviews under their belt. More importantly, it showed me something super important. I have friends. People who care and support me and know exactly what to do to make sure I don't freak out about stuff like that. They are more important than any review, good or bad.
33. Okayyyy, so I've been in a bit of a funk lately... a combination of things had me in this funk. Having time off away from some of the stresses really helps put things into perspective- at least for me it does. I've faced opposition since before I was born- that's another story, though. So, it shouldn't come as a surprise when opposition rears its ugly head at this stage of my life. I must remember that it is at the time my breakthrough is about to manifest that opposition wil...l appear. It is at that time I must pass the tests & prepare for reposition.
I say that, to say this: Never assume you know my struggles nor the origin of my struggles. If you want to know something about me, ask me! I was born on the cusp of Gemini & Cancer. I'm the type of person to let you assume & then give you something to talk about...
34. It's time to go CHASE MY DREAMS instead of putting MY LIVELYHOOD in someone else's hands, while I help them build THEIR DREAM!!!! I'm down BUT I'M NOT OUT!!! I let the world see my darkest, hardest days, so you ALL will be a witness to the MIRACLE and the breakthrough he's about to perform for MY LIFE!!! I don't see it, it might even take him years to work THIS one out ... Idk wats gonna happen between NOW AND THEN ... BUT I KNOW MY GOD HAS BROUGHT ME THRU DAYS AND HARD TIMES THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL NEVER WITNESS IN THEIR LIVES ... I'M a LIVING, walking, TESTIMONY ... AND I KNOW HE DIDN'T BRING ME THIS FAR TO LEAVE ME HERE!!!! I DON'T ask for ANYTHING to become easier Lord, ALL I ask for is STRENGTH and WISDOM to make it thru WHATEVER I MUST ENDURE ... AMEN!!!!
35. Lifted out of ourselves, ironically, we become who we are.
(David L. Miller, 033016, Christ In Our Home)
36. Decision
Where do I stand? Do I stand with pro
or the conservatives with their fears?
I think I'll stay here, or wherever I go...
should I go with the pro to help out my peers?
Where do I stand? Do I stand with pro
or the conservatives with their fears?
I think I'll stay here, or wherever I go...
should I go with the pro to help out my peers?
The dreaded decision that must be made
Which restroom will I use, which gender will I choose?
The question is one that will not just fade,
so I must stand up, for I cannot snooze.
Gender-neutral bathrooms--that's just dumb.
If you're born a boy, you are a boy...
that's just how it is, that's the rule of thumb.
This is just nonsense, it's a left-wing ploy.
Is this the history that I have planned?
I have a question: Where do YOU guys stand?
37. I will always uphold the fact that an act of worship is NOT a concert.
38. When we colonize Mars, there had better be a city named after it. There better be a 125 foot statue of Curiosity the Redeemer.
39. Wait just a minute. Where are my zombie stompers? Alien [the 1979 movie; apparently the sneakers are modeled on what the heroine wore in an early movie of the series] is so decades old. Zombie's are what is being marketed today and shoved down our throat's.
40. Replinishing the nutrients I so violently expelled throughout the day and some habanero liquid drano treatment.
Which restroom will I use, which gender will I choose?
The question is one that will not just fade,
so I must stand up, for I cannot snooze.
Gender-neutral bathrooms--that's just dumb.
If you're born a boy, you are a boy...
that's just how it is, that's the rule of thumb.
This is just nonsense, it's a left-wing ploy.
Is this the history that I have planned?
I have a question: Where do YOU guys stand?
37. I will always uphold the fact that an act of worship is NOT a concert.
38. When we colonize Mars, there had better be a city named after it. There better be a 125 foot statue of Curiosity the Redeemer.
39. Wait just a minute. Where are my zombie stompers? Alien [the 1979 movie; apparently the sneakers are modeled on what the heroine wore in an early movie of the series] is so decades old. Zombie's are what is being marketed today and shoved down our throat's.
40. Replinishing the nutrients I so violently expelled throughout the day and some habanero liquid drano treatment.
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