The Journalist And The Skinny Chick http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com A journalist on the skids, the ex-bikini model wife who's gone sour on him, and what is Existence? Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:37:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 Decorated Silence http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/lonely/ http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/lonely/#respond Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:06:15 +0000 http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/?p=4516     'There is no greater sin than desire, No greater calamity than envy, No greater adversity than pining for something for oneself. He that knows enough is enough will always have enough.' Lao-Tzu         I believe that every great man, once he fully understands what 'society' is like -- and by society I mean any gathering of people -- will want nothing further to do with it. Experience has taught me that when I meet someone who prefers their own company to that of the rabble of Mankind, in general I discover a person with a superior Read more [...]

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]]> http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/lonely/feed/ 0 The Discovery of Death http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/discovery-death/ http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/discovery-death/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:46:10 +0000 http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/?p=4508         'Like an eternally gay festival of the children of Heaven and of the inhabitants of the earth, life swept along spring-like through the centuries...until a thought, a frightful vision approached the merry company and filled their hearts with wild terror...It was Death that interrupted the revelry with fear and pain and tears.' Novalis Hymnen an die Nacht       For primitive men death was not a natural event. Our prehistoric ancestors believed that when someone died it was either the result of an enemy's magic or mystical, Read more [...]

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]]> http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/discovery-death/feed/ 6 About Face http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/face/ http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/face/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:42:04 +0000 http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/?p=4480             'Whatever he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please; His motions all accompanied with grace, And paradise was opened in his face.'           'Every human face is a hieroglyph, which, to be sure, admits of being deciphered — nay, the whole alphabet of which we carry about with us. Indeed, the face of a man, as a rule, bespeaks more interesting matter than his tongue, for it is the compendium of all which he will ever say, as it is the register of all his thoughts Read more [...]

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]]> http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/face/feed/ 0 National Pride Prejudiced http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/national-pride-prejudiced/ http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/national-pride-prejudiced/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:00:59 +0000 http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/?p=4473       'My country right or wrong is on the same level as 'my mother, drunk or sober.'' G.K. Chesterton           'The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings Read more [...]

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]]> http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/national-pride-prejudiced/feed/ 3 Love As Place Beautiful http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/love-place-beautiful/ http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/love-place-beautiful/#respond Sun, 06 Jul 2014 16:43:59 +0000 http://journalist-and-the-skinnychick.com/?p=4466         'In presiding over lawsuits I am as good as anyone. The thing is we should make it our aim that there not be any lawsuits at all.' Confucius     I have made these two observations about education today, and I am referring to university. The first, much to my surprise, is that university graduates don't seem to know very much. The second thing should erase any surprise, because I've seen that the goal is not to be educated or learn, but to get a good job, to get lots of money. It seems to me that a majority of parents want their children Read more [...]

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