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November 30th, 2020

11/30/2020

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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow."

​Kurt Vonnegut
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November 09th, 2020

11/9/2020

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New York
November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply — of course it isn’t puppy love.
But I don’t think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it — and that I can tell you.
Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
If you love someone — there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I’m glad you have it.
We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
Love,
Fa

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/12/john-steinbeck-on-love-1958/www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/12/john-steinbeck-on-love-1958/

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April 24th, 2020

4/24/2020

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​1. Давайте по една ескимоска целувка (знаете ги, от онези забавните нос в нос)
2. Започвайте „война“ с гъделичкане.
3. Казвайте „Много си мил/а.“
4. Състезавайте се с пазарски колички в магазина.
5. Измислете тайно ръкостискане.
6. Гледайте луната, преди да се приберете вечер вкъщи.
7. Поемайте си дълбоко въздух и бройте до 5 заедно.
8. Питайте „За какво си благодарен/а днес?“
9. Танцувайте в колата на червен светофар.
10. Състезавайте се до най-близкото дърво.
11. Прегръщайте се.
12. Правете животни със сенки на стената.
13. Занесете на детето си студен чай или горещ шоколад просто така.
14. Състезавайте се за най-смешна физиономия.
15. Изпейте песничката за азбуката, колкото можете по-бързо.
16. Издавайте смешни животински звуци.
17. Наблюдавайте как се труди мравка.
18. Скачайте в локвите.
19. Нарисувайте смешна картинка.
20. Гледайте децата в очите, когато говорите с тях.
21. Състезавайте се кой ще издържи най-дълго, докато се гледате един друг.
22. Поделете си парченце шоколад.
23. Помогнете им да си изберат книга.
24. Скачайте на леглото заедно.
25. Напишете телефона на баба и им позволете те да ѝ се обадят.
26. Чешете ги по гръбчетата.
27. Смигвайте им смешно.
28. Подсвирквайте си някаква мелодия.
29. Разказвайте смешки.
30. Казвайте „Обичам те“.
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April 23rd, 2020

4/23/2020

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Children’s CharterThis charter was developed by over 700 children in Squamish in 2016.
Charter of Rights
  1. I have the right to a family and friends.
  2. I have the right to survive. I have the right to a warm home, to food, to clothing and to sleep.
  3. I have the right to a clean environment, including fresh air and fresh water.
  4. I have the right to peace, to be free and to live in a safe world.
  5. I have the right to choice, to my own beliefs and be happy and to love who I want and to be loved.
  6. I have the right to play, to exercise and to recreation. I have the right to nature, to be outside, to explore, to imagine and to create.
  7. I have the right to be who I want and to be respected for it. I have the right to express myself, to have a voice, to speak out and to be included.
  8. I have the right to safety and to feel safe, to trust someone and the right to privacy.
  9. I have the right to an education.
  10. I have the right to health care.
  11. I have the right to have equal rights and to know that I have rights.
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March 07th, 2020

3/7/2020

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Maxims of Goethe:
  • When a rainbow has lasted as long as a quarter of an hour we stop looking at it.
  • Researching into nature we are pantheists, writing poetry we are polytheists, morally we are monotheists.
  • Considered historically, our good points appear in a moderate light, our faults excuse themselves.
  • To do well you need talent, to do good you need means.
  • For surely everyone only hears what he understands.
  • If you miss the first buttonhole, you can't ever get fully buttoned up.
  • You really only know when you know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
  • People think one ought to be busy with them when one isn't busy with oneself.
  • Acumen is least likely to desert clever men when they are in the wrong.
  • One doesn't find frogs wherever there is water, but there is water where you hear frogs.
  • Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but not more interesting than contemplating.
  • Everyone manages to have just about enough strength left to act according to his convictions.
  • Let memory fail as long as our judgment remains intact when needed.
  • Dirt glitters when the sun happens to shine.
  • Beauty can never be clear about itself.
  • Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
"There are people who ponder about their friends' shortcomings: there's nothing to be gained by that. I have always been on the lookout for the merits of my opponents, and this has been rewarding."
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February 26th, 2020

2/26/2020

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I can see,
birds sitting in a tree,
by the sea, 
and I can see, 
seagulls flying with glee, 
why do birds fly, 
and what do they see, 
those birds, 
are not, 
lllllooookking at ...me!

by Max, 2019
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February 05th, 2020

2/5/2020

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​THE MORE LOVING ONE
by W.H. Auden
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
“If equal affection cannot be, / Let the more loving one be me.” by Maria Popova 
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February 3rd, 2020

2/3/2020

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January 31st, 2020

1/31/2020

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Законите на мъжа: https://www.168chasa.bg/article/7589684?fbclid=IwAR3ZY9xz6nJsS3Te7Sxs26eCCYrKFCQlyu7uSEbEibzwY_XuKM5EK0ACY2s

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October 09th, 2018

10/9/2018

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A Private Fortune: Simonides, that extraordinary author of lyric poems, found an excellent remedy for his straitened circumstances by travelling around the most famous cities of the Asia, singing the praises of victorious athletes in exchange for a fee. When he had grown wealthy in this venture, he was ready to take a sea voyage and go back to his native land (he was born, so they say, on the island of Ceos). He boarded a ship, but a terrible storm (plus the sheer age of the ship) caused it to sink in the middle of the sea. Some of the passengers grabbed their money belts, while others held onto their valuables and any possible means of subsistence. A passenger who was more curious than the rest asked the poet, ‘Simonides, why aren’t you taking along any of your own stuff?’ He replied, ‘All that is mine is right here with me.’ It turned out that only a few were able to swim ashore, while the majority drowned, weighed down by what they were carrying. Then bandits arrived and took from the survivors whatever they had brought ashore, stripping them naked. As it happened, the ancient city of Clazomenae was not far off, which is where the shipwrecked people then turned. In this city there lived a man inclined to literary pursuits who had often read Simonides’s compositions and who was his great admirer from afar. He recognized Simonides simply from his manner of speaking and eagerly invited him to his house, regaling him with clothes and money and servants. Meanwhile, the rest of the survivors carried around placards, begging for food. When Simonides happened to run into them, he took one look and exclaimed, ‘Just as I said: all that is mine is right here with me, but everything that you took with you has now vanished.’
— Phaedrus (translated by Laura Gibbs)

www.futilitycloset.com/2018/10/09/a-private-fortune/

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