I am the point-of-contact for a support group here in Austin. I joined as a member and inherited the work when the person before me had to move forward. This kind of work is something that I do by the numbers: I do not have a talent for it. Discussing the agenda (which is to say, "gossiping") with one of the regulars, they said about another member that the other person seems to be "worshipping the problem instead of finding a solution." I asked if that was a quote and they did not know.
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| I do not have a solution but I admire your problem. https://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/ |
Googling brought evermore many hits from after 2018 and fewer before. I eventually found Ashleigh Brilliant, creator of Pot Shots. He has thousands of them, all copyrighted and aggressively protected. Oddly enough, I found nothing by Ashleigh Brilliant in the libraries of the University of Texas, the City of Austin, or the City of Kyle. So, I went to Abe Books and bought five from two sellers.
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| https://schaffnerpress.com/books/short-flights/ |
The Austin Public Library did have Short Flights, a book of aphorisms from an array of modern writers. Ashleigh Brilliant is one of them, so this came up in a wider search. I am reading through that now as I wait for the books.
Right now, I have two original aphorisms:
You can only be as open with others as you are with yourself.
Not much happens in a society that punishes ambition.
In republican Rome, ambition, literally ambling about glad handing strangers to make friends among the voters, was a crime.
The best one that I learned somewhere else is a post title here: "How do you make God laugh? Tell Him your plans."
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