Overheard at Table 4: Two Cryptoquotes

 

 

 

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance."

— Unattributed

 

 

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "

— Aristotle

Overheard at Booth 4: Cryptoquotes - Least and Most by Terry Pratchett

 "When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror."
— Terry Pratchett


universalmom
March 10, 2012, 1:14 pm
He's an amazing author.
MmeScherzo
August 20, 2013, 1:38 pm
Sounds like a quote from Solzhenitsyn.
ronasid
September 4, 2015, 1:40 pm
You are missed
xenia
September 17, 2018, 10:46 pm
This reminds m a quote from Solzhenitsyn found on this site: "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again." (from The First Circle)
Majka
October 22, 2019, 10:25 pm
Don't know who said it but "A person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose or everything to lose."
mohamm1
February 17, 2020, 9:28 pm
And now it seems that everything has been said.
gracefulghost
November 24, 2021, 8:47 pm
I'm terrified that they're not through yet....

Overheard at Booth 1: Cryptoquotes - Some Luck by Garrison Keillor

 "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted, had you known."
— Garrison Keillor

killdozer
March 23, 2015, 7:56 am
I like this one.
insomniac
April 17, 2015, 11:26 pm
So I really wanted this flu? I must be a masochist.
marnita
June 3, 2016, 12:28 pm
He said "some luck," not all luck. This rings true for me. In my own life, a few total disasters eventually led to some of the best things that ever happened to me.
darkyr
June 16, 2016, 10:11 am
Like having to stand in what looks like a longer line only to find out it's moving much more quickly.
letfreedomring
May 11, 2018, 9:51 am
A nice spin on moving on after not getting what ever we didn't get. I'm thinking of a job that, had I got it, I'd have been excessed within a few years. Instead I had a full career with that same agency.
YorkiesRule
December 16, 2018, 5:26 am
You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes you might find You get what you need
Synonymous
March 6, 2021, 8:02 pm
letfreedomring similar situation, very early in my career I wanted to work at a company so bad but I took a job across the street from the company because they did not hire me. Looking out my window one day, I saw TV crews, camera trucks and a big commotion. The company I wanted so desperately to work for had gone bankrupt. I was glad I had NOT gotten that job over there.

Overheard at Table 3: Arboles de Fuego

2023-0615

La Playa de Bahia Dorada

The edge of each final wave that laps the shore;
A row of tiny white horses galloping up the strand.


2023-0615

Refrán

El Arbol de la Quina

Esta siempre a tu lado,
Porqué esquina.


2023-0616

Al Puro Surf, El Zonte, La Libertad

The crooked limbs of the Suessian tree
framing the picture-perfect ocean waves
upon which a happy surfer rides
the crest, until the board and
rider part ways,
each of them flung into the air.

And the waves marches
joyfully toward
the shore.

Overheard at Table 3: The Games We Play

My wife and I like to play this little game, where she says, "You should initiate sex more often" and I say, "Well how about tonight?" and she says, "No."

Overheard at Table 2: In the United Lounge with Americans

In the United Lounge
waiting for our flight to El Salvador - 

all the Americans 
on their laptops
updating their spreadsheets,

or speaking loudly on their phones
about sales meetings
about shipments
about how Robert really 
dropped the ball with
this customer or
that customer,

or their conversations over the chair armrests
about how they run their team:
"I take them out for fun, sure,
but they gotta hit their numbers first.
I mean, you gotta do the work
that pays for the fun, right?"



MR
2023-0608

Overheard at Table 1: Idea for Series - The Imagined History of Floridaman

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230528-the-overseas-highway-the-us-floating-highway?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Since this railroad cum highway brought poor islands to the mainland and forever changed Florida, it would be interesting to have some sort of multigenerational series on "The Evolution of Floridaman"

He didn't necessarily come out of the swamps ... he was hanging out in the Keys.

Until the day that the gaps between the islands were bridged, and Floridaman came to the peninsula!

Do you think I can sell the idea to Carl Hiaasen?