DEEP THOUGHTS (AND SHALLOW ONES) FROM A WRITER-PRODUCER-POET-COLUMNIST WHO'S STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THINGS OUT
Today I’m doing my best to honor Rod Stewart and prove that “every picture tells a story” except, of course, those that don’t.
In other words/pix?, above you can see some profundity from a cartoonist I truly respect: Stephan Pastis.
Interesting side note: Mr. Pastis “used to be a lawyer.” Is that a plus or a minus? I’ll stay out of that minefield for now.
LYMI
LB
ME, AS I USED TO BE. AT LEAST, I HOPE THAT GUY’S ALL IN THE PAST NOW.
TODAY’S “PEARLS BEFORE SWINE” FILLS ME WITH TERROR
Last April, long-time TVWriter.Com contributor Dawn McElligott became the first person to solve my crazy code about my health situation and sent me this wonderful email that I merrily pass on to…everybody? (That’s the intention anyway.)
In Dawn’s words:
I saw your post about soldiering on. At this point, I’m not sure what to say so I’ll let Jack Kerouac do the talking.
And now Jack Kerouac’s:
I have lots of things to share now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.
The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
Rocks dont see it.
Bless and sit down.
Forgive and forget.
Practice kindness all day to everybody
and you will realize you’re already
in heaven now….
He was a brilliant Jewish-American writer who wrote in Yiddish to keep the language alive.
He was also the first Jewish-American existentialist, even though no one ever thinks of him that way.
Well, almost no one. Kareem Abdul Jabar does. Because if there’s one thing Kareem does well, and always has done well, it’s knowing the score. His column today, about a number of things is, to put it simply, brilliant, and I was especially impressed by his Daily Quote:
Kareem’s Daily Quote: I confess to believing in something without rational proof.
You can find the full text of his thinking on this subject, along with much more…
LYMI, LB
