Note that I dropped my phone, so some of the pictures have funny colored lines in them. Ah, a reason for an upgrade...
I check The Big Question almost daily. Back on the 2nd, it asked 'Do you know what you want?' -- Well, do you?
On the 11th, I attended Inprint's presentation of Carlos Fuentes -- another great writer. I enjoyed the evening, though I thought it too short. Of the many things he said, I was struck by his description of Mexico as 'country destroyed by its own epic.'
'Be who you are and be that well.' -- Wise words from St Francis de Sales
And another quote from Gene Fowler: 'I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.'
And from Leo Stein -- 'The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.'
We attended Outstanding in the Field mid month. Wow! It was so much fun. We arrived at the Jolie vue Farms at three in the afternoon and proceeded to meet our fellow diners and nibble on passed appetizers. A few hours later, we walked passed the pens and up the hill to the table awaiting us. More than 170 people for a sit down, fantastic, gourmet meal in the country. I highly recommend it, but you'll have to wait until next year.
I was thrilled that Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize. I love The Storyteller
and was riveted by The Feast of the Goat
. He is a master storyteller.
The above is another of the self portrait drawings. Below is a glimpse at how fat the volume can be.
The wickedly clever Oscar Wilde once said, 'The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.'
If you like flash fiction as I do, try elimae and wigleaf. These are two new finds.
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. -- Mary Parker Follett
The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -- Viktor Frankl.
Viktor Frankl had an amazing story. I was deeply moved by Man's Search for Meaning
when I read it years ago. Too many years, actually, and probably worth a reread.
