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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."
Sunday, September 7, 2008

Miles to go...

8:13 PM | Posted by Christine | Edit Post
For the next two weeks, my house is going to have one extra inhabitant - A and I are kittysitting for Mark's (formerly my) cat, Miles.

At 13, he's a bit of a crotchety old bugger, but I have to admit that it's nice to have him around the house. He seems to be settling in nicely, and has even found himself a favorite spot on the back of the couch (right behind my head, where he purrs like a old diesel for hours on end).

I have made a list of resolutions for this two week period, and I thought I should probably write them down so I don't forget any of them.

  • I will take some sort of allergy medicine every day. I will avoid the sneezing even before it even starts.
  • My bedroom door will remain closed, creating a dander-free zone. I will not forget to close it, ever.
  • I will make sure A brushes him at least every other day.
  • I will not take him to the groomer and have him shaved (lest he eat my face off in my sleep.)
  • I will not take him to the groomer and have him shaved (lest he eat my face off in my sleep.)
  • If he throws up on my carpeting, I will not kill him.
  • I will not use barfed-on carpeting as an excuse to call 1-800-588-2300.
  • I will spoil him with Fancy Feast and Iams, so that he's impossible to live with when I send him home. I'll be like the cool grandma. But younger.
  • I will not take him to the groomer and have him shaved (lest he eat my face off in my sleep.)
  • I will not decide to develop a full-blown claritin addiction and go out to buy myself a new cat.
  • I will not let A talk me into buying a new cat.
  • I will pet him and pat him and hug him and squeeze him and call him George (after which, he may eat my face off in my sleep).
  • I won't even take him to the groomer and have him bathed. I am kind of attached to my face.
  • I will give him plenty of love and attention while he is here. Every time I do so, though, I will wash my hands and remember not to touch my face (the aforementioned one to which I am attached).
  • I will not let A talk me into buying a new cat.
  • I will not fall asleep anywhere except behind the closed bedroom door, just to be safe.
  • We won't even say the word groomer in his presence. Just to be safer.
If I go missing and stop answering the phone, please come see if you can find my face somewhere. I hear there are doctors (at least in France) that can sew them back on.

kthnx.

1 comments:

Whirledpeas said...

I don't see the problem about getting a cat as long as it is one of these:

http://www.truthislove.org/skincats/db_cats-pic1.jpg

I came accross this one and couldn't help but think of you:

http://www.petcomments.com/makethumbjpg.php?filename=funny10073_l.jpg

September 9, 2008 at 6:19 AM
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