It’s not Cold Mountain, but then again I’m not Han Shan, either.
I know a lot of bad words. None of them seemed bad enough for what I saw yesterday.
So I went out to finish shooting some video for Adventure Cyclist. It was not a speaking role.
If you can’t say anything nice. …
Mad Blog Media 
January 8, 2021 at 4:09 pm |
Never pass up the opportunity to keep your mouth shut. Very often words to live by. 🙂
January 8, 2021 at 4:19 pm |
Well, unless you earn your meager living by jacking your jaw. Before food can go in, words must come out.
Still, a little distance from the news monsoon, an early bedtime, a bit of video editing, some of the old bikey ridey — all these things help bring the cranial temperature down from a rolling boil to a simmer.
And all y’all know pretty much everything I wanted to say anyway.
January 9, 2021 at 8:41 am |
Sometimes it’s better to let someone else speak for you.
January 8, 2021 at 8:10 pm |
That old expression comes to mind.
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
― Epictetus
January 9, 2021 at 9:33 am |
Okay, you’re forcing this old preacher to preach: “Blessed are they who have nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it.”
January 9, 2021 at 9:59 am |
Hard not to follow up (written, not spoken) with:
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” …
“silence is the language of god, …
“I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.” …
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
🙂
January 9, 2021 at 1:00 pm |
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