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Words to Ponder #2
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters – don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.” Epictetus Epictetus was a stoic philosopher, and my favorite among them. The message here is clear: if you want to learn or do better, don’t…
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If We Were Gods – a poem
“If We Were Gods”a poem by Jeremy C Kester We seek to control othersTo determine their thoughtsTheir wantsDesiresAnd what they should doAs though we were godsMeddling in mortal affairsForgetting ourselvesWe are but the mortalsFloundering without controlKnowing nothingOf ourselvesThinking to control othersWhen we cannot control the selfYet do we know evenWho we areBut… by all meansWe…
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Cleaning
We like new things, us writers. New pens. New notebooks. New books. Even new WIPs (work in progress). If anything, we love new WIPs most of all. Well… some of us do, anyway. Think of a new story idea like that of a new romance. It’s invigorating. Enticing. Exciting. We stare dreamily into the distance,…
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Words to Ponder #1
I’ve decided to try another regular feature on this site, something that is relatively easy (vs trying to come up with a short story each week for Free Fiction Friday… which might happen some time in the future). Anyway, the point of this one is simply a quote, passage, phrase, or what-have-you that strikes me…
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Fakery – a poem
“Fakery”a poem by Jeremy C Kester Can we slip into our dreamsand forget about the caresof chasing the imagined realityothers forge in digital brushes Can we chase better dreamsinstead of bowing to greedor the envy others place upon usthrough lies and fake beliefs Real life could be a better paintingif one only grasps those brushesaccepting…
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