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Newsletter #0074 – “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

The quote is from Cesar A. Cruz. Below, a poem as relevant now to the human experience as to any time in history, because it loops and bends backward onto itself. You will have a hard time believing this (more…)

Posted on 25 August, 2025 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0073 – We are the universe experiencing itself.

  The quote is Mr Alan Watts. Although charmingly engrossing with his cadence and style, and as much as he did for Buddhism and Philosophy in the West, his critics will absolutely suggest he was (more…)

Posted on 24 June, 2025 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0072 – Language is a wave breaking open the world.

The title is simply Salman Rushdie in context of his 27 second knife attack, speaking about healing both literal, and metaphoric, open wounds. You know… They never finish Lord Acton’s quote ‘Power (more…)

Posted on 2 June, 20252 June, 2025 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0071 – Love is a state of being

Michael Shannon out there healing the human race.     The social media post you may have even seen sort of suggests it is predicting the future, but he was speaking about his present (more…)

Posted on 4 January, 202525 April, 2025 By Uncle Fishbits
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NEWSLETTER #0070 – The audience loves a slow thinker.

  “THE AUDIENCE LOVES A SLOW THINKER” – Buster Keaton I cannot get this Buster Keaton quote out of my head. It nails so much of comedy, whether Bugs Bunny or Three Stooges or someone late on the (more…)

Posted on 2 January, 20252 January, 2025 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0069 – Only the dead have seen the end of war.

For people suffering the consequences of their own actions: @doctorfubbs Put respect on yourself.#drfubbs #omg ? Blame Game – Doctor Fubbs   The subject / headline quote is Plato. I’m not (more…)

Posted on 20 November, 202420 November, 2024 By Uncle Fishbits
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NEWSLETTER #0068 – Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom

The quote is from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. I’ll let it stand on its own a second time down below, for you to sit with and ponder. I suspect that some of you are feeling this quote, too? “The (more…)

Posted on 7 October, 2024 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0067 – Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

The newsletter quote is Joseph Campbell from “Power of Myth”, 1988.   When you can free yourself from thinking everything matters in a way of universal consequence, & that you don’t need (more…)

Posted on 3 July, 20243 July, 2024 By Uncle Fishbits
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NEWSLETTER #0066 – Loving something unconditionally doesn’t mean you love it more. It just means you love it sadder.

OOooof. That quote is from a big time Disney fan who is an influencer and journalist about the Magic Kingdom and all it does. Disney doesn’t treat her that well, while she should be hired as a consultant. (more…)

Posted on 9 June, 20249 June, 2024 By Uncle Fishbits
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NEWSLETTER #0065 – The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Have a happy dancing grey goose: pic.twitter.com/K7DFTUeYfT — chaotic memes (@memechaotic) October 4, 2023   A few other quotes, besides Patton, who spoke our newsletter title. “Character (more…)

Posted on 23 May, 2024 By Uncle Fishbits

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