Leaving on a Jet Plane

Here goes:

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will
bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais
Nin, author (1903-1977)

If you want to work on your art, work on your life. -Anton Chekhov,
short-story writer and dramatist (1860-1904)

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
-Irwin S. Cobb, author and journalist (1876-1944)

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
-Jean Cocteau, writer, artist, and filmmaker

Words are things; and a small drop of ink / Falling like dew upon a thought,
produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -Lord Byron,
poet (1788-1824)

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where
teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -Arthur Koestler,
novelist and journalist (1905-1983)

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -Henry
Fielding, author (1707-1754)

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. -RD Laing,
psychiatrist and author (1927-1989)

Because we don't understand the brain very well we're constantly tempted to
use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my
childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone
switchboard. (What else could it be?) And I was amused to see that
Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain
worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic
and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and now,
obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. -John R. Searle,
philosophy professor (1932- )

Words strain, / Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, / Under the
tension, slip, slide, perish, / Decay with imprecision, will not stay in
place, / Will not stay still. -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind
people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972)

War would end if the dead could return. -Stanley Baldwin, statesman
(1867-1947)

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is
softness of head. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
-Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)


Alrighty then! Been a bum lately, but I like it!
Leaving On A Jet Plane is such a great song. I'm not one to always go by the popular songs of musicians, but I really do love it.
Life's been crazy lately, but when is it not?
Club starts tomorrow!!!


All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin' it's early morn
The taxi's waitin' he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
Every place I go, I'll think of you
Every song I sing, I'll sing for you
When I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time let me kiss you
Close your eyes I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times, I won't have to say

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go