February 2012
“Folks, I’m telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get...”
– Langston Hughes
Bittersweet
Last week I was charged with penning a beautiful, happy wedding toast for my dear friends Brett & Emily who are getting married on Leap Day.
This week I am charged with penning a beautiful, befitting eulogy for my dear friend Ronald who will be laid to rest on Leap Day.
My life is a constant series of extremes all the time it seems & I am humbled by the journey.
“If you remain in the present moment, you will never get hurt. Forget about your...”
– Hindu teaching
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...”
– Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Note To Self.
Relevant.
Entirely TOO relevant.
WHOA!
My queue went empty!
Guess it’s time to spend some quality time on Tumblr this week.
I miss it when I’m away.
“We cannot rewrite the madness of the world by immersion in it. Create of your...”
– Almine
“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
“Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I’ll be me,...”
– Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
– Anthony Burgess
“Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger,...”
– Horace
“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have...”
– David Byrne
“Don’t let life come to a standstill. Lead with your heart. Stop letting your own...”
– Kim Bishop
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
– Rumi
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
– Rumi
Say it ain't so, Whitney!
I refuse to believe the AP.
“You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky,...”
– Sai Baba
“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not...”
– Audre Lorde
Lawmaker Proposes Bill: Life Begins Not At... →
Democratic Oklahoma state Senator Constance Johnson has proposed a bill that would make it illegal for a man to ejaculate anywhere except into a woman’s sexual organs, giving an even more extreme twist to the current so-called “personhood” laws cropping up across conservative states.
The good news: she’s kidding and merely trying to prove the point that radical right wing religious...
“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep...”
– Gail Sheehy