John Saward's Sandbox

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I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

— Anais Nin

Twitscoop



And I dance

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

The new ranch hand

A rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife. She was a very hard-working woman and determined to keep the ranch, but couldn't do it on her own and knew she needed to hire help.

Only one cowboy applied for the job, so she hired him. He proved to be a good worker who put in long hours every day and knew a lot about ranching. For weeks, the two of them worked, and things were going well.

The majority

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

— Mark Twain

Do not go

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solve it

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that
created it.

— Albert Einstein

The whole sordid plan

Tired of constantly being broke & stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife with himself as the beneficiary, and then arranging to have her killed.

A 'friend of a friend' put him in touch with a nefarious, dark-side, underworld figure who went by the name of Artie. Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $5,000. The husband said he was willing to pay that amount, but that he wouldn't have any
cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money.

Godwin's Law

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

They moved...

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Running the show

(On worrying less about the choices he has made....) "All these things have their own destiny; one has one’s own destiny. The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show"

Change tomorrow

None of us can change our yesterdays, but all of us can change our tomorrows.

— Colin Powell