Forgive...or not...

                    "The Kiss of Forgiveness" Pablo Picasso.

         http://www.picassomio.com/maria-makki/72565.html

     

"Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one  you forgive."
               -- Wm Paul Young, The Shack
                             
 "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."  -- John F. Kennedy

"Never forget, rarely forgive."  -- Ed Koch, former mayor of New York, on survival.

"One should find the peace to forgive the past, but only when the past is not continuing as before in the present.  The dying animal has a right to keep resisting the attacks."                                --  oldbigfoot, June 2016

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”     ― Thomas Szasz

Some Terrific Caricatures...

"A caricature is putting the face

 of a joke on the body of a truth." --Joseph Conrad

                                     
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Tom Cole's The Fable of the Three Sinners
                    
                             (Click to Enlarge and Read)

The Fable of the Three Sinners, By Tom Cole
The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine, circa 1978-79.

This magazine arrived just when I had moved into my new apartment on Central Avenue in New Haven.  Sometime I will type in the entire text of Tom Cole's great fable about the three sinners, but for now I will only present the last few paragraphs of his conclusion:

    "This is what happened to the three:  the friar, set free to wander the forests minus his hands, was attacked by a large bear and killed.  He put up no resistance, for he saw it was God's judgement upon him.  
    "The Huntsman vowed vengeance for every stroke of the cruel whip that laid open his back.  He apprenticed himself to an assassin and grew very skilled in the art of murder, until one day he sought the King in his bedchamber to requite the old grievance.  The huntsman, however, was surprised and killed by one of the Royal Guard.
    "The minstrel whiled away the time needed for his eyes to heal by playing.  He became quite accomplished, and spent the greater part of every day thereafter in practice, for other worldly pleasures were denied him.  He serenaded the greatest peers of several realms, and when he died ballads were written of him.

    "MORAL:  Do not go backwards, that is resentment;  do not stand still, that is passive;  go forward, and love your fate."



Thank you, Tom Cole, for your saving words.  

“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most

 importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be 

pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”

― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”

 ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

Fatherhood, by Pablo Picasso

"What is essential is invisible to the eye, it is only with the heart that one sees rightly" -- The Little Prince.

Enjoy your life.  No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever.  No devil chases after your soul.  Sing and dance and be merry.  

-- Christopher Pike

On and On and On

Down in Jamaica, they got lots of pretty women
Steal your money then they break your heart
Lonesome Sue, she's in love with ol' Sam
Take him from the fire into the frying pan

On and on
She just keeps on trying
And she smiles
When she feels like crying
On and on, on and on, on and on

Poor ol' Jimmy sits alone in the moonlight
He saw his woman kiss another man
So he takes a ladder, steals the stars from the sky
Puts on Sinatra and starts to cry

On and on
He just keeps on trying
And he smiles
When he feels like crying
On and on, on and on, on and on

When the first time is the last time
It can make you feel so bad
But if you know it, show it
Hold on tight, don't let her say, "Goodnight"

I got the sun on my shoulders and my toes in the sand
My woman's left me for some other man
But I don't care, I'll just dream and stay tan
Toss up my heart to see where it lands

On and on
I just keep on trying
And I smile
When I feel like dying
On and on, on and on, on and on
On and on, on and on, on and on
On and on, on and on, on and on

Songwriters
BISHOP, STEPHEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oByMiF4hPg

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down "happy."  They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.   -- John Lennon

Working Class Hero, by John Lennon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." 
   -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am a Christian and a Democrat."  -- F.D.R.

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 By Brian McFadden, NY Times.

Muhammad Ali, Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century, Dies at 74

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/sports/muhammad-ali-dies.html

"I ain't got nothing against them Vietcong."
     --  The Greatest

“Even though he became vulnerable in ways he couldn’t control, he never lost his childlike innocence, his sunny, positive nature. Jokes and pranks and magic tricks. He wanted to entertain people, to make them happy.”
    -- His wife

Muhammad Ali: Worshiped. Misunderstood. Exploited.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/opinion/muhammad-ali-worshipped-misunderstood-exploited.html

After diagnosis of Parkinsons...Sept. 21, 1984: