What’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever?
The first time you are infatuated with a girl it sticks with you for a long time.
It was summer vacation and I hadn’t seen her for weeks and there she came walking down the busy avenue as lazily throwing a baseball. I felt out of sorts.
And about this time this song came out.
On a morning from a Bogart movie In a country where they turn back time You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress Running like a watercolor in the rain
If you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose?
The ending of Little Red Riding Hood depends on whether you read the original tragic version or the famous happy version: the Charles Perrault version ends with the wolf eating the girl and no rescue, while the Brothers Grimm version features a huntsman who saves them.
I think an alternative, ending would be for the wolf to chow down on the hunter, teaching the lesson that we no longer need to hunt to provide food for ourselves.
A man walks up to a Moscow newsstand every single day, picks up the front page of the newspaper (Pravda, meaning “Truth”), looks at it for a moment, puts it back down, and leaves without buying it. [1]
This goes on for weeks until the curious vendor finally asks him: “Comrade, why do you look at the front page every day, but never buy the paper?” [1]
The man replies: “I am looking for an obituary.” [1]
Puzzled, the vendor says: “Obituaries are always printed in the back of the paper!” [1]
The man smiles and says: “Ah, but the obituary I am looking for will be on the front page.” [1]
I know you were thinking it. When I was a kid, I had this recurring dream that took place under a bridge where a stream flowed. Under that bridge stood a wolf or a coyote. That’s all I remember about that dream.
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This recurring dream suggests that as a child, you were experiencing an emotional transition or a period of growth. The bridge and stream show you were navigating changing feelings. The wolf or coyote represents your instinctual nature, a fear you were facing, or a protective force waiting for you to acknowledge it.
What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept?
I recently moved out of state for the first time in my life. I didn’t like the habits I was getting into and I was starting to put on a little bit of weight. I had just moved from Philadelphia where I ran a little bit.
But on that Tuesday morning. I put on some running shoes and went out for a run. The weather was cool and overcast and as unspectacular as a day can be. I didn’t even know my way around. I remember running down the Colonial Parkway in Williamsburg and headed towards Duke of Gloucester Street.
I remember talking to my stepmother at the time. She said to me the key now is to stay at it. 45 years later, I’m still running and still enjoying it. I never promised anything as the promise was implied.
I did promise myself, rather challenge myself to learn German.
Vor kurzem bin ich zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben in einen anderen Bundesstaat gezogen. Mir gefielen die Gewohnheiten nicht, die ich mir angewöhnt hatte, und ich nahm langsam ein bisschen zu. Ich war gerade aus Philadelphia weggezogen, wo ich ab und zu joggen gegangen war.
Aber an jenem Dienstagmorgen zog ich meine Laufschuhe an und ging joggen. Das Wetter war kühl und bewölkt – ein Tag, wie er unspektakulärer kaum sein könnte. Ich kannte mich dort noch gar nicht aus. Ich erinnere mich, dass ich den Colonial Parkway in Williamsburg entlanglief und in Richtung Duke of Gloucester Street lief.
Ich erinnere mich, dass ich damals mit meiner Stiefmutter sprach. Sie sagte zu mir, das Wichtigste sei jetzt, dranzubleiben. 45 Jahre später laufe ich immer noch und habe immer noch Spaß daran. Ich habe nie etwas versprochen, denn das Versprechen war stillschweigend gegeben.
