#Reality reminds us of the limits life imposes, but imagination opens every door the real world closes. #vss365

In life and love, pursue the #goal to find, and be, a soulmate’s soul. #vss365

A rhyme is a compelling way to #transport thoughts you want to say with words that, when they're heard, remain embedded in a busy brain. #vss365

#Science doesn’t care if you accept it or deny it. Math will still be there if you embrace it or defy it. Truth is always true no matter how you try to spin it. The world won’t wait for you to recognize that you are in it. #vss365

I know my days are #numbered. I don’t know the amount. In case it’s not that many, I try to make them count. #vss365 #number

They say that life's a chocolate box. Well, that's a #myth- it's mostly rocks. But don't let that dismay your soul, for even rocks can sometimes roll. #vss365

We stress and obsess over fortunes of wealth But death takes away every dime; A much better #measure of what we should treasure Is how we have spent our life’s time. #vss365

An education based upon an algorithmic feed will not provide the sustenance that healthy brain cells need. An education based upon the #literature found inside a local library will help good sense abound. #vss365

Gravity’s a #law, they say, but flying disrespects it. Grammar lays down rigid rules, but poetry neglects it. Greed makes economic sense, but charities defy it. Sometimes straying from the norm works better when you try it. #vss365

A little #language often serves us better than a lot. We like to think the world wants all our words, but it does not. A few selected sentences will typically suffice To help convey our sentiments, so try to stay concise. #vss365

Is #history a one-way street or does it cycle and repeat? Do children right their parents’ wrongs or just reprise the same old songs? Do people learn from past mistakes or err again, with higher stakes? Will we improve the world we’ve got? I hope we will. But maybe not. #vss365

Science doesn't care if you accept it or deny it. Math will still be there if you embrace it or defy it. Truth is always true no matter how you try to spin it. The world won't wait for you to recognize that you are in it. #vss365 #geography

Success is never set in stone and fame is hard to trust; a face placed on a pedestal can also be a bust. #vss365 #famous

Patience is a virtue, but it's best to not be late. #Education helps you realize ways you can relate. Genuine compassion comes from conscience, not command. Where our futures go depends on where we choose to stand. #vss365

In #domestic affairs I am fifth in command as my wife, kids, and pup keep our home well in hand. #vss365

I’m curious if courage is contagious or contained. Will courage challenge those who have control, or end up chained? Or could it be a #creature that will starve if it’s not fed? I hope we learn these answers before courage ends up dead. #vss365

The ghosts I know do not appear at #Halloween to conjure fear. Instead, my ghosts arrive at night to ask, in dreams, if I’m all right. #vss365

Life’s a race and we’re not winning Time has led since the beginning We can chase and cheat with cunning, but we’ll fade and time keeps running Life’s a race and we will lose it And the finish? Time will choose it Yet, before the race is done, we can still enjoy our run. From my #vss365 archives

A great #experiment, I've heard: go think a thought, then write a word, then write a page, and then write two, and make a book that's made by you. #vss365

The human mind is unrefined and sometimes fails its role, but A.I.'s #creep will make us sheep and shear the human soul. #vss365

Our bodies are just atoms briefly gathered in one place. How many of those atoms once derived from outer space? Could we be made in part from dust that flew to Earth from Mars? Or hewn from meteors that hail #heliacally from stars? Perhaps each human holds in trust A galaxy inside of us. #vss365

I think a lot about the final thought I’ll have in life. I hope it’s of my loved ones, like my children and my wife. I pray it’s not regret or panicked #terror that I’ve failed. I’ll try to count my blessings well before my ship has sailed. #vss365

I’d like to soar beyond the place where azure skies meet outer space and hold your hand as we pass Mars- just you and me, among the stars. #vss365 #Martian

You can't unsee the things you saw You can't undo what's done You can't replace what's gone to waste So change what's yet to come. #vss365 #unseen

The way things are and what we see are not the way things have to be. www.dcswanson.com #vss365

The Senators of ancient Rome propelled their own undoing; the #saucer cannot cool the tea when emperors start brewing. #vss365

We are each a swarm of #atoms briefly gathered in one place, made aware through evolution and indomitable grace. #vss365

On concrete streets or sunburnt sand Or rolling hills of clover, Aspire to find a place to stand Where angels #hover over. #vss365

You can battle with a #beetle. You can fistfight with a fly. But it’s best to brush away the things that bug you - at least, try. #vss365

Every day we live means one less day we have till dying. Try to seize each day, and when it’s difficult, keep trying. Life will twist and turn and will astonish and amaze. Go enjoy the ride before you find you’re out of days. #vss365 www.dcswanson.com

The overwhelming #undertones of everything I write are love your neighbor, read more books, and don't let A.I. bite. #vss365

A.I. and its billionaire handlers intend to make our reliance on human thought end, and yet they're upset when we shun what they've said- #piranhas complaining the water's too red. #vss365

It's good to have a thrift shop with some #raincoats when it rains. It's good to have a library with books to feed our brains. It's good to have a charity to help our friends in need. It's good to have some goods that don't rely on corporate greed. #vss365

My daughter wrote some words at school so sweet they made me cry. I’m very glad the words she wrote were hers and not A.I. It takes some #verve to buck the urge to use A.I. to cheat, but words combined by A.I.’s mind will never sound as sweet. #vss365

#Ash, the word for charred remains, can also stand for living trees; the world we shape depends upon the meanings that we choose to seize. #vss365

When noise surrounds, who hears your voice? When isms #clash, the rich rejoice. When views are fed, why trust your eyes? When anguish weighs, then heroes rise. #vss365

In helping educate myself, I find it's best to strive to seek out knowledge shared by folks who are, or were, alive. A.I. just spits out algorithms billionaires prefer- instead, #associate with thoughts from folks who are, or were. #vss365

When ethics are #elastic and morality elective, it seems iconoclastic to make honor your objective. #vss365

If #pulp produces paper and if dye develops ink, then writing means we’re dyeing to let pulp say what we think. #vss365

We all need an #oasis from the searing, stifling sands of algorithmic content that we carry in our hands. Good books can be a haven for the peace of mind we need, so seek bookstore shelves and libraries and urge your kids to read. #vss365

They #blur the lines they plan to cross and hope we will not see what's lost. #vss365

The more that you can prove, the less you need believe. Yet faith can make minds move, and facts, at times, aggrieve. Are faith and proof opposed? A #conundrum that persists- but neither path is closed, for in minds they coexist. #vss365

A.I. is not a foolproof tool In fact, it’s apt to act the fool With #scrutiny, its faults show plainly That’s why thinking’s best done brainly. #vss365

Make your voice heard- Every phrase, every word- Make it clear & sincere So we’ll hear & be stirred. Then polish your sound So it’s pure & profound Like a diamond refined As it’s mined from the ground. Sing loud & sing strong With a #sonorous song, And we’ll all sing along. #vss365

So will our doom be petty cares or merely brute #caprice? To push up never-ending stairs and blindly pass by peace? There’s much to marvel at in life, but minds are far too strewn with fickle fruit and buried strife to mirror a poet’s tune. #vss365 poets.org/poem/yet-do-...

The grim #eventuality of every life demising should make us strive, while we're alive, to warrant eulogizing. #vss365

A #bellwether knows which way the wind blows and when we should change from the path that we chose. #vss365

I hope to #reinvigorate the normative appeal of reading words that humans wrote, not words A.I. helped steal. #vss365

I read Calvin & Hobbes like it’s one of my jobs and it’s taught me there’s joy in belief. When I read Charlie Brown, if I’m up or I’m down, it reminds me that life has good grief. #Perhaps we all need some good comics to read and we’ll gain more than comic relief. #vss365

Fear those who make, as best they can, #catastrophe their business plan. #vss365