deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.” Satchel Paige

[Really long flag thought from my friend Ted Kaye]: Every year, right around this time, we find ourselves asking the same question: Why are we Americans so enamored, maybe even obsessed, with American flag clothing? At this point you’ve probably seen a good number of people walking around with American flag T-shirts, shorts, and bathing…

“God is hidden in plain sight, yet religion seems determined to make it more complicated.” Richard Rohr

In his classic The Outermost House, American naturalist Henry Beston writes that animals “are not brethren, they are not underlings” but beings “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.” They are, he writes, “other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life…

flâneur [flah-nur, flah-nœr] NOUN French. flâneurs a person who lounges or strolls around in a seemingly aimless way; an idler or loafer.

“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.” Ogden Nash

“The most important thing is that each individual must treat all others, all the people who walk on Mother Earth, including every nationality, with kindness.”  Chief Leon Shenandoah

“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, “sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.”  CS Lewis 

“Don’t let your education get in the way of your learning. I was educated once and it took me years to get over it.” Mark Twain

No wise person ever wanted to be younger. NATIVE AMERICAN APHORISM