Heart pumps blood — and love, passion, hurt, joy, faith.
Symptoms, waiting for signs
I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs
99¢
Ninety-Nine is a famous number
for at the market the seller knows
he is so very much more popular
than his bigger brother The Dollar!
—Terri Guillemets
Upward
I am not a wing
but a feather —
I can’t fly, however
all of us together
we can, by rising
do almost anything!
Talking inside out
Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee
Biblioinsomnia
Up late with books, reading in bed—
Up early with coffee, extra lead.
Becoming
How many have made ourselves ugly from the burden of being beautiful? Made ourselves dumb because of the shame of
Dads
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Dad never was a money-maker, and, as nearly as I can make out, he never wanted to be. He worked mighty hard when he worked, but his real job was living.”
—Clarence Budington Kelland, 1927
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’”
—Harmon Killebrew, 1984
Living in clover
“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t
—Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1923, translated by
Selves-realization
i am so many people
it’s impossible to be myself
but i can almost always
be at least one of myselves
New measurements
“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to
—Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Falling
Fear is imagination falling off a cliff.
Pain gain
Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches.