Meridiana

"How old would ya be, if ya didn't know how old you was?" - Satchel Paige. My purpose in creating this blog, Meridiana, is to identify and capture an essence of those people, places and things that have contributed and, in some cases, continue to contribute meaning, texture and enrichment to the lives of those of us who grew up in Meridian, Mississippi during the ‘50s 'n' ‘60s. And, maybe i'll add a few surprises, too.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

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World's oldest living teenager.
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Someone asked me which is
worse, ignorance or apathy?

I said, "I don't know and I don't care."

"There are men that women want to date and men that women want to help them move."

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"Age is about mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter" - Satchel Paige

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein

An older woman will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, "What are you thinking?" She doesn't care what you think.

"Always be reading something good so if you die in the middle of it..."
- P.J.O'Rourke

"I have never read Freud. Neither did Shakespeare."
- William Faulkner

"When a person dies, it's as if a library burns down - all singular experiences, anchored in unique cells, are extinguished."
- George Kohler

"Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly
called away before you can find out how it ends."
- Joseph Campbell

"Better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you're not."
-Andre Gide

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- Emily Dickinson

That girl became the
Spring wind.
She flew somewhere, far
Away.
Undoing her hair, lying
Down, in her sleep
She becomes the wind.

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my own damn neighborhood.


Favorite Quotations:

"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm." - Dorothy Parker

"Those who wander are not necessarily lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott

"A maid laughing is half taken." - anonymous Elizabethan poet

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

*You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back." - William D. Tammeus


"Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." Henry Kissinger

Religious fundamentalists are motivated by the sneaking suspicion that someone, somewhere, is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.

Give a man a fire, warm him for one night. Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.