Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 23, 2012

Whiner!

Autumn builds character.

Present imperfect.

I like every season, but summer I like best, it’s warm and I love swimming!

In autumn when the leaves turn and the apples start to falland you pick so much squash you can never use it allPumpkins grin from windowsills And kids in costumes dressedOh, Autumn is the season that I like the very bestThe colors are so brilliant in the air and on the groundand your breath forms a cloud every time you make a sounda sweatshirt keeps you warm with perhaps a goose-down vestOh, Autumn is the season that I like the very bestYour energy increases as the north wind blows your wayso you race around from sunrise until sunset ends the dayyet every ray of sunshine makes you feel that you are blessedOh, Autumn is the season that I like the very bestThe winter can be lovely when it’s covered up with snowand the spring renews your hope when the plants begin to growthe summer heat can heal you but the fall it gives you zestOh, Autumn is the season that I like the very best— Autumn by the Short SistersFrom the album “A Planet Dancing Slow”

Picky, picky, picky.

I like winter because then I have spring and summer to look forward to.

For once, look around you—see the colors-see the blue sky. Keep a bouquet of leaves thru winter to add color to your home. Change in spring when flowers come out. Go for walks on perfect days-winter too.Give thanks that you’re alive.

I used to have a Zen watch. To see the time, you pressed a button, and an LED display lit up and said “NOW”.

Once I realize it is the present, it is suddenly the past.

Autumn is my favorite season, except for right now when it’s pouring rain.

If you don’t like the present, wait 5 minutes. It will change.

There’s presents??? Where?

“That was Zen, this is Tao…”.This one’s for Freedom, this one’s for Fun?

Dad seems to have calmed down since yesterday but Calvin is the same—still in denial.

Margueritem, good to see you again.

The bad thing about the present is that you don’t know how it all turns out. The bad thing about the past is that you DO know.

…sounds like it’s getting tense…

Poor Calvin… I know how you feel.

Sometimes…

LOL xxx

It feels like winter where I live!

I love fall. I love the trees turning color, the vivid blue skies, and the crispness of the air.

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This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmmm! What he was doing. Humph!

It feels like summer where I live.

The Autumn wind is a pirate Blustering in from sea With a rollicking song he sweeps along Swaggering boisterously. His face is weatherbeaten He wears a hooded sash With a silver hat about his head And a bristling black mustache He growls as he storms the country A villain big and bold And the trees all shake and quiver and quake As he robs them of their gold. The Autumn wind is a Pirate Pillaging just for fun He’ll knock you ‘round and upside down And laugh when he’s conquered and won..We are expecting Snow this week

Here in the desert, we only have two seasons: summer and that other one. The way you know the seasons are changing is because the license plates change color (snowbirds!).

Now is the present. It won’t ever be the past or the future. Unless you’re time traveling.

Q: What time is it?Yogi Berra: You mean NOW?There is no NOW, as soon as you ask the question, the ‘present’, according to the Zen clock, is gone.

“It is difficult to live in the present, impossible to live in the past, and pointless to live in the future.”

— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

That’s me !

Calvin and Hobbes for President and Vice-President!!

same bro