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Living life one dream at a time.

Words of the Wise

"What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
-Christopher Fry, The Lady's not for Burning

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
-Mary Anne Radmacher

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-Erica Jong

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel unsure around you...We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us; It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandella, 1994 Inaugural Speech

"Until this moment I had believed forgiveness to be a special virtue, a beneficence God expected of good people. But it wasn't that at all. Forgiveness was an instinct, a desperate impulse to stay connected to the people you needed, no matter what their betrayals."
-Monica Wood, My Only Story

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear."
-Stephen King

"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
-Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Kindly Ones

"Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine which, being balanced people, they cannot supply."
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"You know, when you crawl that far down into the abyss, you really shouldn't bring stuff back up with you. Some things are meant to live in the dark. Your blog is like one of those fish with no eyes. Only slightly more disturbing."
Saturday, May 31, 2008

What have we learned?

8:55 AM | Posted by Christine | Edit Post
Yeah, I've been pretty boring here lately. Sorry about that. I've had a ton of things going on, but I haven't felt particularly inspired where any of them are concerned. It's almost as if my life is taking a deep breath, waiting for something big to happen to snap me out of this rut.

Things haven't been a total waste, though. And since it's been a long time since I've put together one of these lists, here is a sampling of what I've learned lately:

  • Spring really is the happiest time of the year.
  • The ants that live in my back yard are zombies - no matter how many times I kill them all, they always come back. I hope they don't eat my brain.
  • Harrison Ford is still pretty sexy for an old guy.
  • Sunday night is still hot single guy night at the grocery store.
  • I will never learn to fix my hair and do my makeup before going to the grocery store on Sunday nights
  • Everyone should have a whirlwind summer fling with no hope of permanency at least once in their lives. It's good for the soul.
  • The book was wrong - you don't need a towel everywhere you go. You need an umbrella.
  • Even though I spend a lot of time wishing I could go home and curl up on my couch, I'm actually much happier when I'm out and about doing stuff.
  • Despite this fact, there is nothing sweeter than a good nap on a Saturday afternoon.
  • I hate the USPS, people in mail rooms, and anything that has to do with failed cheesecake.
  • I need to find a few good books to read this summer. Suggestions are welcome - Non-fiction ideas will earn you much scorn, ridicule, and derision.
  • I'm not turning into my mother, after all.
  • It's really hilarious when it's your SISTER'S kid who throws his wiimote through the brand new plasma tv screen.
  • Every woman should have an ex-husband as cool as mine.
  • Never eat a jalapeño chicken sandwich and spicy vegetables immediately before going to a movie theater
  • I belong in the arts. I will get back there some day if it kills me.
  • Within the next six months, I intend to be making a shitload more cash than I do right now. This will help with the long-term arts plan.
  • My kid is awesome, even if he is turning 12.
  • I have the coolest friends in the world.
Now I'm off to go be boring for a few more hours. I think there's a nap with my name on it hiding somewhere in the couch.

1 comments:

Whirledpeas said...

"Everyone should have a whirlwind summer fling with no hope of permanency at least once in their lives. It's good for the soul."

If you substitute my name for "whirlwind", I whole-heartedly agree.

Also add: Spring, fall and winter.
:)

June 1, 2008 at 7:32 AM
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