Some days we can only hope
that Death has called in sick.
quotes
Two steps forward, one stumble backward
There are two sides to every story. Even my own story. Probably every story I’ve ever told myself.
Quits
If you let go of the things you’re addicted to, your pains will let go of you.
So tired!
“I have been awfully busy… And it tires me so that generally
—Lewis Carroll, 1879
Binding years
“The knowledge of my years is ever with me, a sort of binding torment, like an armhole that is
—Kate Trimble Sharber, At the Age of Eve, 1911
Seriocomic
I like people who don’t take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.
Beyond the horizon
I still believe in some faraway place where it’s all okay.
Falling to pieces
I’m a dandelion puff in a harsh wind.
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
Jane & the sun
Sometimes prayers collide and miracles are born.
Smoky
Grief is love expressed in tears.
Intentionally blank
We can’t really say anything about anything anymore without first washing it down to meaninglessness.
Enthus¡asm
Be the dot on the exclamation point of life!