kcmToday's offering on my blog is this month's "Something to Think About":
«Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it and neither do they.»
https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/something-to-think-about-this-month-15/
KeithSomething to Think About this Month
Each month I offer you something to think about to get the brain working. This month …
Many animals probably need glasses,
but nobody knows it and neither do they.
Today's entry on my blog is the monthly collection of recently encountered quotes.
Quotes for March
Here’s my motley collection of quotes for this month …
Understand this, you can sound confident & have anxiety. You can look healthy but feel bad. You can look happy & be miserable. You can be good looking & feel ugly, so be kind because every person is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
[Winnie the Pooh?}
The prescription for grown women to be hairless, smooth, curve-less and ageless is a response to a paedophile-dominant media/entertainment industry.
[Jameela Jamil]
Don’t let the fear of being seen stop you from enjoying the sheer joy and freedom of being naked.
[unknown]
It doesn’t have to be this way. Western culture has chosen to exclude and demonise neurodiverse and disabled people, like it does with so many other marginalised groups, in service of the capitalist system.
[Allegra Chapman]
I’m not trying to predict where we are on a trajectory of historical collapse. I’m only pointing out that launching an unprovoked war to overthrow a longstanding enemy under cover of negotiation to resolve a pretextual crisis is the sort of aggression typical of empires in, at a minimum, steep decline.
[Spencer Ackerman; https://www.forever-wars.com/regime-change-in-iran-terms-and-conditions-apply/]
Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it.
[John Lennon]
The context currently is a government cash strapped in a world heading for serious recession who has disproportionately monied the NHS and offers primary care a historically lead role.
[Prof. David Colin-Thomé; https://networks.nhs.uk/blog/gms-contract-2026-2027-reflections/]
Twenty percent of global supply. Gone. Just like that. Because one spray tanned game show host with the strategic instincts of a toddler playing with matches decided he wanted to look tough on television.
[unnamed author; https://ifloz.substack.com/p/trump-fucked-around-here-comes-the]
On the sofa now, a soft nose sticks out from beside a cushion. A head the shape of a bicycle seat follows, eyes flickering in a dreamstate. Nothing says “all is safe” in your tiny world quite like a dog with all four feet to the sky.
[Jen; https://ofhalfimaginedthings.substack.com/p/enough-magic-to-hold-another-day]
I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
[Atticus]
Answers to this month's quiz questions on literature are now on my blog.
March Quiz Answers
Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.
Literature
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2025.
#blog #literature #March #quiz #zenmischiefThis month's poem on my blog is John Masefield's "Cargoes"
This Month’s Poem
Cargoes
John Masefield
Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amethysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.
Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rail, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
Find this poem online at Poetry by Heart
#blog #March #masefield #poem #poetry #zenmischiefFrom my blog, this month's self-portrait: "Variety Faces"
March Self-Portrait
Variety Faces[Click the image for a larger view]
#blog #photography #selfportrait #zenmischief
