Feb
23
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I know what you are thinking…’wow, that is so very random.’
Want to have fun and smile? Do this via email with a co-worker or friend today. Write one sentence and ask the other person to write another one slightly, but randomly, connected to the first one. Not a story type connection, just random thoughts. You can’t answer any questions, you have to just move on with a new thought or new questions. Don’t get yourself fired by saying something stupid though, ok?
Like this:
Did I tell you that this week is National Pancake week? Where did pancake makeup come from, anyway? Isn’t all cake made in a pan? What tree did Pan make his flute out of? Is a fluted column always going to have a Corinthian top? Is Corinthian leather really made in Corinth? Is there a bank in Corinth called 1st Corinthian Bank? etc. etc. etc.
Quote by Gordon Webber, 1912-1986, American writer and advertising executive. Died in my favorite summer place, Montauk, Long Island.
Sep
03
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‘Childish’ can refer to the immature and baby-like tantrums that children sometimes have. The author is not referring to that type of ‘childish’.
He is referring to the ‘child-like’ activities of joy and wonder and fun and exploration. The unself-conscious ability to play in the rain and get muddy, the ability to wrestle with your dog or play hide and seek with your cat. He is talking about having fun in harmless ways.
Do you still have that in you?
Drawing by Marty Coleman, the Napkin Dad
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quote by Wayne Dyer, American author and lecturer, not dead yet.
Aug
01
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No more series for a while. Just a relaxing, funny quote and drawing for you to consider.
I know there are many who don’t like having anything hanging over them and can’t relax as long as that is there. But there are others who allow that things will get done, and some things won’t and it’s ok. They are the ones who can relax and enjoy life in spite of having things to do and people to see.
I am in that category. What category are you in?
Drawing by Marty Coleman, the Napkin Dad
Check out my work and merchandise at
http://www.martycoleman.com
and
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Jul
30
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Ok, one final drawing for ‘Aging week’. Next I think I will do completely random stuff that comes out of nowhere.
My feelings about aging all seem to revolve around not doing it. I don’t mean physically aging, and I don’t mean growing in wisdom. I mean becoming old in attitude.
The attitude that so often sees things ‘as they had been’ as being the best it will ever be. ‘Back when I was a kid’ or ‘When we were raised’ are cliches that are covers for not being willing or able to see new ideas and new ways of doing things.
The resistance to the new can start early, just think about how the best music ever probably was the music that came out when you were in high school and college. After that it all went down hill. Did it really? Didn’t you simply get use to certain musical ideas and then closed yourself off to new ones?
When Igor Stravinsky debut of the ‘Rite of Spring’ the audience became enraged and revolted against it. Why? Because it was an idea so new that it actually caused them pain. That of course changed over time, until now that same music is seen as almost safe and boring. It took time, but people have accepted it, it’s not new, it is not painful.
What I try to do is withhold judgment of the new until I can get use to the idea, start to understand it’s value. It is one way I work to not be ‘old’.
Drawing by Marty Coleman, the Napkin Dad
Check out my work and merchandise at
http://www.martycoleman.com
and
http://napkindad.blogspot.com
quote by Pearl S. Buck, Author
