Orts #846

If you can sit quietly after difficult news, if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm, if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy, if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate and fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill, if you can always find contentment just where you are, you are probably a dog.
     — Jack Kornfield

Every slice of bread is some sad grain that could have been whiskey.
     — sign at the Whiskey House on Piccadilly, UK, observed by PJK, October 20, 2017

Mom has been getting e-mails with mysterious abbreviations at the end.
She e-mails her son to ask "what does TTYL, ILY, BFN mean?”
Son e-mails back, "Talk to you later, I love you, bye for now.”
She replies, "OK, no problem, I understand, you're pretty busy these days, I'll ask your sister instead.”

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
     -- Charles Schulz (1922-2000)

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a touching footnote about the late and utterly irreplaceable Oliver Sacks:
http://nyti.ms/2yNocOH

Oliver Sacks on Gefilte Fish:
http://bit.ly/2xnNhQJ