Soul Food: Week of January 9, 2022

Sunday: If there is no such thing as “bad,” can there be any such thing as “good”?

Monday: If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science. Aaron Rodgers

Tuesday: If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles

Wednesday: In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy & peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles (who in his last interview told Merv Griffin he wrote that famous line in “The Third Man” not realizing “Swiss don’t make cuckoo clocks. Germans do, in the Schwarzwald.”

Thursday: Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old & die. W.B. Yeats

Friday: [On the other hand:] The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats

Saturday: When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. There’s a world of difference between truth & facts. Maya Angelou

Davd Soul