Posts Tagged ‘Hope’

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Hope, Kansas

by Seraphine Khorana on July 11th, 2011
Posted In: Comics
Hope, Kansas

Folks that live in Kansas seem to love it. One person, surrounded by fireflies as she walked her dogs one starry evening, told me “living in Kansas is a well-kept secret– don’t tell anyone.”

Mrs. Bales lost an eye in the storm and it was several weeks before it was found. Her son, C.R. Bales, was one day walking in the wheat field north of the Bales’ house and he accidentally stumbled on it. As he was walking he happened to look down at his feet and there was that eye staring up at him. He picked it up and found the glass was as good as ever, so he gave it to his mother and now she can see as well as ever.
Quotation from C.E. Williams (as quoted by Professor Tom Averill of the Washburn University Center for Kansas Studies)

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Achieving Balance

by Seraphine Khorana on February 19th, 2011
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Achieving Balance

Great news. My office isn’t going to be closed! I’ve suspected this for several months, especially after we got new computers in January. I’m going to continue taking classes though, because I don’t ever want to feel occupationally vulnerable again.

You with the sad eyes don’t be discouraged
I realize it’s hard to take courage
In a world full of people, you can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you can make you feel so small
But I see your true colors shining through
I see your true colors and that’s why I love you
Lyric from Cyndi Lauper, True Colors

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Self-Medication

by Seraphine Khorana on November 2nd, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Self-Medication

I’m going to concentrate only on positive influences. Starting tomorrow. I’m going to burn sage and eat chocolate.

People are just fed up with the Obama administration – that ‘hope and change’ thing, said retail manager Nadine Leder in Milwaukee, Wisconson.
Quotation from Republicans poised for big gains by Andy Smith, Reuters.
(Yes, people are fed up with that “hope” thing. It’s horribly tiring.)

Participants who tested positive for depression consumed an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month.
Quotation from Depression and Chocolate: Self-Medication or Perpetuation? by Charles Bankhead
(Only 8.4 servings per month? That surely must be a misprint.)

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Send in the Clowns

by Seraphine Khorana on March 11th, 2010
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Send in the Clowns

I need cheering up. Does anyone have something uplifting or funny to say? Maybe a little joke?

What do you give a sick bird?
A tweetment.
Quotation from JokesByKids.com

Who recognises the church in the photo? It’s located in the Northern California town of Bodega, and it was shown in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds.

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Kick Boxing

by Seraphine Khorana on March 4th, 2010
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Kick Boxing

It’s like being in high school and knowing I’ll graduate in six months. The real world is out there and I’m wondering what I’m going to do. People tell me: “Some day you’ll look back at this and think how wonderful it was.” Ha!

Richard Vernon: What did you want to be when you were young?
Carl: When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon.
Richard Vernon: Carl, don’t be a goof. I’m making a serious point here.
Quotation from the movie The Breakfast Club

Andrew Clark: You don’t have any goals.
John Bender: Oh but I do.
Andrew Clark: Yeah?
John Bender: I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights.
Another quotation from the movie The Breakfast Club

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Camel Assisted Therapy

by Seraphine Khorana on January 16th, 2010
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Camel Assisted Therapy

Petting a dog, a camel or an elephant can reduce feelings of loneliness and stress. Assuming of course, you don’t get spat upon, peed on, bitten or squashed.

It’s not that animals have magic vibes coming out of them. It’s about giving people a sense of life beyond what they ordinarily experience.
Quotation from William Banks, Saint Louis University

Elephant Therapy and Equine Therapy Programs are used as tools for gaining self-understanding and emotional growth in adults and children, and are especially effective for children with Asperger’s and Autism.

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Gerascophobia: Fear of the Mad-Fall

by Seraphine Khorana on November 25th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Gerascophobia: Fear of the Mad-Fall

I’m not afraid of growing old; I’m afraid of *being* old. But I’m not aged yet– and tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day– so I’m thankful for having the opportunity to grow a bit older.
I’m also thankful for having love in my life, and I’m thankful for YOU, dear readers.

Worried you will die alone,
You expect the crucifix
Around your neck to save your soul.
A hint of growing old, and losing beauty.
Fear of impaired mobility.
Your face deteriorates
as your insides decompose.
Lyrics from Burning the Masses, Gerascophobia (Gerascophobia is the fear of growing old)

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Survival Instinct (do whatever it takes)

by Seraphine Khorana on September 1st, 2009
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Survival Instinct (do whatever it takes)

(1) When it burns, stop running. (2) Put a billfold in your mouth so you don’t bite your tongue. (3) Tie a balloon around your waist with string and roll until the balloon breaks. (4) Don’t pee on a jellyfish sting. Pour vinegar on it instead.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Quotation from Chuck Palahniuk

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The Syndrome: Never had an oncoming train swerve for me, but I keep hoping

by Seraphine Khorana on March 13th, 2009
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The Syndrome: Never had an oncoming train swerve for me, but I keep hoping

Sometimes I can’t get out of my own way. I keep thinking things will “return to normal” and I’ll get caught up, but things are never normal.

Got in the Way of a Train (New York Times, August 16, 1888)

And you are such a fool to worry like you do
I know it’s tough and you can never get enough
Of what you don’t really need now
My, oh my, you’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment and you can’t get out of it
Lyrics from U2, Stuck In A Moment

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Words Words Words (and still we do it)

by Seraphine Khorana on February 12th, 2009
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Words Words Words (and still we do it)

Everything I understand, I understand with words, though there are words beyond words and more misunderstandings than understandings.

Were you thinking that those were the words—
those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?
No, those are not the words—the substantial words are in the ground and sea,
They are in the air— they are in you.
Quotation from Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Poem by Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

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The Devil Made Me Do It

by Seraphine Khorana on October 21st, 2008
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The Devil Made Me Do It

What tricks does the devil play on you?

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words
And never stops at all.
Poem by Emily Dickinson, Hope is the Thing with Feathers

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth (Church of Satan)

I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Quotation from Ingmar Bergman

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Quotation from Bill Gates

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Ten Cents a Can

by Seraphine Khorana on July 16th, 2008
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Ten Cents a Can

Hope springs eternal. Until you lose it.
You begin to feel disconnected.
Do you reconnect with hope
by embracing pain or denying it?

“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
Quotation from Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
Quotation from Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words
And never stops at all.
Poem by Emily Dickinson, Hope is the Thing with Feathers

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Destitution as a Career Choice

by Seraphine Khorana on May 12th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Destitution as a Career Choice

It’s no crime to be poor. But persistent poverty
and oppression causes despair and hopelessness.

The United Nations Childrens Fund (unicef.org)
The State of the World’s Children 2007 (unicef.org) (pdf)

“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave… In
failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not,
as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a
set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied, but written off as trash.
Quotation from John Berger, In Keeping a Rendezvous

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