I levitate out of my tree branch just before the sun comes up. I hover under a waterfall. I sip the dew off of a hundred and one wildflowers. I laughingly chase the fairies and gnomes out of my garden as I tend my herbs. If my alarm hasn't gone off by then, I smack my husband with my pillow, not with the droolly wet side, the dry side, cause I love ( Read more... )

I don't think I have a personal motto...I have several (what I consider to be) "truths" that I take comfort in...

1. Reality is often kinder than the stories we tell about it (Byron Katie)

2. Don't rest on your laurels, laurels have a way of growing thorns. (Deb Katz)

3. It's the Gospel, you chucklehead, even if we don't make it, we still make it. ( ( Read more... )

Louis CK said, and obviously I'm paraphrasing, that poor people have their rich lives all figured out because they imagine their rich life all the time. They think, "Oh, I'm going to live in a chocolate house and wipe my butt with live bunnies..." But poor people never imagine their poor life. They never think, "Oh, I get to ride the bus!"

So what ( Read more... )

I traditionally don't care for it personally, but if other people want to celebrate it, it's cool. I just think it's a lot of pressure. I'm not a particularly romantic person. Thankfully I'm married to a closet romantic so his "romantic antics" aren't easily manipulated by card companies, florists and jewelers. Anyway, it's almost over. We started ( Read more... )