Wiserafter90
@wiserafter90.bsky.social
Career mostly as an antiquarian bookseller, retired at age 86 after 64 years. Restored circa 1815 home. Avid reader, collector of quotes, lover of languages and history. Happily married for a second time after 67 years with my first love. 93 now.
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Looks more like a Dick! oops, did I say that out loud?
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Looks more like a Dick! oops, did I say that out loud?
"No one is useless in this world... who lightens the burden of it for any one else." Charles Dickens. "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough." Oprah Winfrey. "Colors are the smiles of nature." Leigh Hunt.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"No one is useless in this world... who lightens the burden of it for any one else." Charles Dickens. "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough." Oprah Winfrey. "Colors are the smiles of nature." Leigh Hunt.
"With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity and courage that cats have, how many of us, may I ask you, would be capable of being cats." Pierre Marivaux. "He does not believe that does not live according to his belief" Thomas Fuller.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity and courage that cats have, how many of us, may I ask you, would be capable of being cats." Pierre Marivaux. "He does not believe that does not live according to his belief" Thomas Fuller.
The rest of the time I put cruise control on the speed limit. That way I know I won't run into anyone ahead of me so I can concentrate on monitoring the traffic behind.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The rest of the time I put cruise control on the speed limit. That way I know I won't run into anyone ahead of me so I can concentrate on monitoring the traffic behind.
I sometimes live dangerously & drive five miles under the speed limit.
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I sometimes live dangerously & drive five miles under the speed limit.
@imjustosira.bsky.social I have a son resident in Simcoe, Ont. His daughter, in Ottawa, recently got married. I had to miss the wedding due to an injury but OK now.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@imjustosira.bsky.social I have a son resident in Simcoe, Ont. His daughter, in Ottawa, recently got married. I had to miss the wedding due to an injury but OK now.
@pinkmouse.bsky.social Welcome from North Carolina. My youngest son lives in Simcoe, Ont. His daughter in Ottawa recently married. I had to miss the wedding due to an injury- now recovered.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
@pinkmouse.bsky.social Welcome from North Carolina. My youngest son lives in Simcoe, Ont. His daughter in Ottawa recently married. I had to miss the wedding due to an injury- now recovered.
Our four-year old great granddaughter got hold of her grammies phone and completely changed the settings. When asked how to it get back as it was, she shrugged her shoulders and said, "Just push the buttons, it's easy."
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Our four-year old great granddaughter got hold of her grammies phone and completely changed the settings. When asked how to it get back as it was, she shrugged her shoulders and said, "Just push the buttons, it's easy."
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." Gertrude Stein. "I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened." Mark Twain. "I'm feeling so lazy. Yesterday I missed my nap. I slept right through it." Wiserafter90. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." Gertrude Stein. "I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened." Mark Twain. "I'm feeling so lazy. Yesterday I missed my nap. I slept right through it." Wiserafter90. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
My first major purchase as an old bookseller.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My first major purchase as an old bookseller.
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life than this." Henry David Thoreau.
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life than this." Henry David Thoreau.
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." Sydney Smith. "Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you." Elsie deWolfe.
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." Sydney Smith. "Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you." Elsie deWolfe.
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." Martin Luther King, Jr. "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." Shakespeare.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." Martin Luther King, Jr. "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." Shakespeare.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead. "We are much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." Adele Davis.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead. "We are much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." Adele Davis.
Sign on pub: Free beer next Tuesday - and we'll release those files also.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sign on pub: Free beer next Tuesday - and we'll release those files also.
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control." Abraham Lincoln.
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control." Abraham Lincoln.
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver.
"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?" Bob Hope. "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people failing in love." Albert Einstein.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?" Bob Hope. "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people failing in love." Albert Einstein.
Remembering a joke from WWII. The military officer to the female soldiers - now brought up to date: The Pedo-in-chief to the teen- age beauty contestants, "Close your eyes, girls, I'm coming through."
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Remembering a joke from WWII. The military officer to the female soldiers - now brought up to date: The Pedo-in-chief to the teen- age beauty contestants, "Close your eyes, girls, I'm coming through."
"As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled." Quentin Crisp. "Happiness is not so much ín having as sharing." Norman MacEwen.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled." Quentin Crisp. "Happiness is not so much ín having as sharing." Norman MacEwen.
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher. "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." John Milton.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher. "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." John Milton.
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get though, but how many can get through to you." Mortimer J. Adler. "Í am fortunate in having known several people to whom I hated to say goodbye." Wiserafter90.
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get though, but how many can get through to you." Mortimer J. Adler. "Í am fortunate in having known several people to whom I hated to say goodbye." Wiserafter90.
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." Bertrand Russell. "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Carl Sandburg.
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." Bertrand Russell. "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Carl Sandburg.
"I know a little garden close/ Set thick with lily and red rose,/ Where I might wander if I might/ From dewy dawn to dewy night./ And have one with me wandering." William Morris. "At my age, if it were not for medical appointments, I would have no social life." Wiserafter90.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"I know a little garden close/ Set thick with lily and red rose,/ Where I might wander if I might/ From dewy dawn to dewy night./ And have one with me wandering." William Morris. "At my age, if it were not for medical appointments, I would have no social life." Wiserafter90.
"Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked." Katherine Anne Porter. "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." Arthur Wing Pinero.
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked." Katherine Anne Porter. "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." Arthur Wing Pinero.