A New Year! (Let’s hope it’s less bumpy than the last!)
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
-Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Quotes
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, [...]
Monday Musings – Beware It’s a Ramble
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”-e.e. Cummings
(quote in honor of LB-I know, I know, [...]
I woke up to a foot of snow.
Well, maybe it wasn’t quite a foot…but it’s still the first real snow of the year. It fell just as Christmas lights and trees were springing up everywhere, holiday plans were being solidified and present lists were being double checked. So, even though I was coming off of a long weekend of debauchery and sheer [...]
My day in a profound quote.
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. – Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider