v is for she said yes - 2015.05.10

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

~ Khalil Gibran

The Prophet

this is the way the land ends - 2015.01.25

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. 

~ Frank Herbert

a nice cold hug - 2015.01.02

When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go.
It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight
and breathe it into my lungs.
I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it.
It’s mine.
I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time. 

~ Stephanie Perkins
Lola and the Boy Next Door

a world full of weeping - 2014.12.30

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

~ W. B. Yeats

The Stolen Child

oh when the tides come rolling in - 2014.12.29

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, 
nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish,
nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife.
He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach.
They played like young cats in the dusk
and he loved them as he loved the boy.

~ Ernest Hemingway,
The Old Man and the Sea

what tomorrow brings - 2014.12.28

no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . 
And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

nostalgia is a female dog - 2014.12.27

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 

Tears from the depths of some devine despair

Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, 

In looking on the happy autumn fields, 

And thinking of the days that are no more.

~ Alfred Tennyson

a quiet little corner of the earth - 2014.12.24

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.

~ Sara Teasdale

the sun comes out tomorrow - 2014.12.23

When I'm stuck with a day that's grey and lonely

I just stick up my chin and grin and say

~ Charles Strouse

Tomorrow

seventy four: the times they are a-changing - 2014.07.04

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'.

And the first one now

Will later be last

Bob Dylan

The Times They Are A-Changin'

seventy three: things that go shine in the dark - 2014.07.02

All that is gold does not glitter;
all that is long does not last;
All that is old does not wither;
not all that is over is past.

~ Christopher Tolkien
The Treason of Isengard

seventy two: cubicles of existence - 2014.07.01

We're all islands
shouting lies to each other
across seas of misunderstanding. 

~ Rudyard Kipling
The Light That Failed

seventy one: do i really need a quote for this? - 2014.06.30

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Neal Donald Walsch

seventy: what springs eternal - 2014.06.29

live, then, and be happy,
beloved children of my heart,
and never forget, that until the day
god will deign to reveal the future to man, 
all human wisdom is contained in these two words,
'wait and hope.'

~ Alexandre Dumas

sixty nine: to have been measured - 2014.06.28

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live 
is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. 

~ Pliny the Elder

sixty eight: the gordian lock - 2014.06.27

Having children is like living in a frat house -- nobody sleeps,
everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up

~ Ray Romano

sixty seven: the ins and outs - 2014.06.26

You put your left foot in
You take your left foot out
You put your left foot in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about

~ The Hokey Pokey Song

sixty six: an apathy so absolute - 2014.06.25

Nor did he give a damn for the world either,
or the universe
or heaven or hell.
But he liked women. 

~ John Fante
The Brotherhood of the Grape

sixty five: the end of an era - 2014.06.24

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

~ Arthur Miller

sixty four: the red pill is a placebo - 2014.06.23

Then there is the other secret.
There isn't any symbolysm [sic].
The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man.
The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish.
The shark are all sharks no better and no worse.
All the symbolism that people say is shit.
What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

~ Ernest Hemingway