Showing posts with label choice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label choice. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2017

hope - nosis



there is no hope


there are only choices

Saturday, May 14, 2016

the coming extinction of mankind on earth


Bruce Pennington art


We are on a train 


heading into a brick wall 


at 200 miles per hour 


towards our extinction 


and everyone knows it 



Monday, November 2, 2015

two choices


Smiling Buddha, Angkor Wat

No matter where you are or what you're doing,

you have only two choices in life,

to be happy or not to be happy.

Which one do you choose?

There is no way to happiness,

happiness is the way.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

daring greatly


"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." 

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Friday, January 17, 2014

no beast




“No beast so fierce 


but knows some touch of pity. 


But I know none, 


and therefore am no beast.”

Thursday, November 21, 2013

start something


Somebody 

asked me 

why I do this 

my answer was

"If I don't do it, 

who will ?"

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

no hope



there is no hope


there are only choices

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Friday, May 3, 2013

to thine own self be true


"To thine own self be true,

and it must follow, 

as the night the day, 

thou canst not then be false to any man."

 - William Shakespeare

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Roger Swanson



Most Minnesotans have never heard of Roger Swanson. But among voyagers around the globe, he's known as the man who circled the world not once -- but three times -- on a 57-foot sailboat whose home port is listed as "Dunnell, MN."

His travels carried him from the tip of South Africa to the Arctic, winning international honors along the way. He also happened to launch a half-dozen manufacturing businesses in rural Minnesota, overseeing production of everything from snowblowers to farm equipment.

Swanson is being remembered this week as an extraordinary adventurer who lived an otherwise ordinary life in southwestern Minnesota.

"Roger Swanson was one of the greatest long-distance voyagers of this era or any other era," said Herb McCormick, senior editor of Cruising World magazine. "Few sailors have gone from the Arctic to the Antarctic and everywhere in between. He was one of a kind." He died December 25th 2012. R.I.P. Roger Swanson.