Upon hearing an unexpected knock at the door,
or a ring of the telephone, Dorothy Parker would often exclaim
"What fresh hell is this?"
Writings and photos on hope and resilience; love and relationships; life and death; anger and acceptance; and human behavior and beliefs
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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A Misunderstanding of Assignment
Christmas, 1968. Country Club Lane, Atlanta GA. The air was thick with it—not just the humidity of a Georgia winter, but the static of chang...
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Here I sit - nursing a scotch, looking out at the pink and orange reflection of the sunset on the mountain—pondering my solitary act of civi...
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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first t...
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The Parable, Redacted A long time ago, a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing. A wretched thing, laboring away in the heat, a...
1 comment:
Here's yet another thing I learned today. This is something one of my colleagues at work always used to say. And I picked it up from him. So now I know, it's Dorothy Parker. Thanks Dorothy. Thanks random blog generator than brought me here. Thanks John.
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