Who says I have to only pick one?  I can't.  So.

“It is only in risking ourselves from one hour to another that we live at all.”
-William James ( Read more... )

From Oprah Magazine (I know, I know... my Mom bought it ( Read more... )

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Nothing to say.  Grumpy.  Fit for neither man nor beast.  (Nor, probably, woman for that matter.)  However - in reading random essays on Salon.com (one about Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Willow, from 2002) this quote struck me -

There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different ( Read more... )

This Saturday, when Tom and I were out for date night, we were briefly listening to "A Prairie Home Companion" on NPR.  (Not one of my favorite shows; I find Garrison Keillor's voice annoying.)  Keillor read a poem by John Updike and it struck me as something I wanted to remember, though I'm not usually much of a poetry person.  I looked it up ( Read more... )

“It is only in risking ourselves from one hour to another that we live at all.”
-William James