Wise Sayings 7 from Ron Lucius

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1

Use the cleanest gloves for the dirtiest task.

…………………………………………………………………… Ron Lucius

2

Don't polish glass with black wax.

                   (OR don't read Ionesco)

…………………………………………………………………… Ron Lucius

3

When you see an unhappy person, do not think, "How unfortunate!" Ask yourself instead, "How can the suffering be relieved?"

When you see something ugly, do not shout, "How ugly that is!"  Ask instead, "How can that be made agreeable?"

……………………………………………………………………Ron Lucius

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Poem: July Twilight

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Violet
Glowing
Glowing violet
Blossoms
          violet glowing from tiny hill blooms

Dust
          thick air
Rolling down
And
And rolling down through dust and thick, filled air

Rocks
Stones
          pink
Grass
Grasses

Across pink-purple stones and lying grasses--
Where I
Where my feet
             are my feet are
             are strings under
             white-warm
             canvas,

Thin
             and hard
             as twigs.

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Poem: Indian Summer

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Lying immobile on the silent earth
Full and ripe, round, beautiful
Resting quiet among the leaves.

Waiting unknown in the soft, dank bed,
Warm, sun glancing through the branches
Hoping, still, in the smelling autumn wastes.

Sitting timid in the damp dirt
Waiting, slowly dying in warm winds,
Round, tired, ripe, smothered

Full, sweet, unseen, soft,
Lying immobile on the silent earth
Rotting, mute, in the sun.

Humor

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"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

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"I'd give your right arm to be kinder to others."

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Sartre:  Do so you can do

Camus: Be so you can do

Sinatra: Do-be-do-be-doo...

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"Better is not good enough."

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