Mythos & Marginalia

life notes; flaws and all

j.g. lewis

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a daily breath...

A thought du jour, my daily breath includes collected and conceived observations, questions of life, fortune cookie philosophies, reminders, messages of peace and simplicity, unsolicited advice, inspirations, quotes and words that got me thinking. They may get you thinking too . . .

I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.

j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.

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only you can know
Posted on March 12, 2024 by j.g.lewisLeave a comment

   Who are you?
   Where are you?
   What are you? 
   Only you can truly
know your relationship
to this earth and those
people occupying your 
time.
   How can you know?
   Only you can provide 
the answers. 
   Only you can know 
who, or what, you have 
been or where you need 
to go, and why.
   Why?

03/12/2024                                                                       j.g.l.

I feel it deeply
Posted on March 10, 2024 by j.g.lewisLeave a comment

Maybe it’s the continual news of wars on the other side of the world, the outrage in my own city, or of continued climate change threatening our long-time survival. Too much rain of late.
   Even the rising costs of everything, and stubborn interest rates, impact our mood as we teeter above a recession, but I feel it deeply.
   It is more than depression.
   I’m feeling old, not always and not insufferably so, just in the biologically natural way.
Despite the threats to us all, ageing is largely an organic process.
   Still, it is more than chronological patterns of life and cause and effect of a life lived.
   Today it might simply be the weather, so grey that you don’t even notice the clouds rolling in across the horizon.
   It’s hard to think of the better days ahead when we have been continually reminded of both the suffering and side-effects that surrounds us.
   We keep moving forward. We must persevere despite the reasons, in spite of the season.

03/10/2024                                                                                           j.g.l.

03/05/2024
Posted on March 5, 2024 by j.g.lewisLeave a comment