Wintertime Philosopher Pillows

'It's almost time to get the cross-country skis out and dust them off.'

"The overthinker"

Lemniskate

"He's declared it an area of natural beauty"

'I know I'm still in the Juniors, but I already need a therapist.'

Winter Weather.

"Do you think the birds like me?"

"Tracks of black bear cub... Tracks of black bear mother... Tracks of Henry David Thoreau."

"Honey, wake up. I had that dream again where I wake up and you get angry at me for waking you up."

'All this is nuthin! There was one yeaw up noth...when it snowed fah two yeaws! I had t'dig down ten feet t'haul in my lobstah traps.'

Everything opens up as a new day begins.

"Someday, son, a giant conglomerate will find a way to harness the moonlight and make us pay for it."

Contradictory Phil

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!!"

'By George, this one I think I'm going to like!'

The Farmer Sutra.

"I also have trouble sleeping. I don't understand why. No one I talk to seems to have any trouble falling asleep."

'No, I'm not writing to Santa, I'm writing a blog questioning the validity of Santa, since he has no web presence.'

"I love the way it blurs the boundary between inside and out."

"You could always make me laugh but you didn't."

Tomorrow's another day, he thought, unless I get lucky and sleep right through it.

'I became a bit claustrophobic living in a warren all the time: I prefer camping out now...'

Expired, expired, expired, expired, expired, expired.

That's a street lamp, Steve.

Thoughts of Stephen Harper...

'What's all this 'naughty or nice' jazz? ? Haven't you ever heard of situational ethics?'

The end is near. The end is nearish. I get this way every spring.

No crawling sign in the desert.

'Buddy, I'll get stinking rich... yesterday, I took out an insurance against pneumonia!'

Caution - Poet at work

"See, Timmy? No boogeymen under your bed — they're all out there."

"By the way, some of us have begun to feel that 'Because it's there' is not reason enough."

"Ask not for whom the refrigerator hums..."

"I had a dream that I was awake and trying to sleep and now I don't know what's going on."

"First, I set the mood."