To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. -- Clara OrtegaI have always felt blessed to have been born into my family. I was ( Read more... )

You chose a different road and I am unaware
And I feel the fall
-Vertical Horizon, "Sunshine"Now I understand, in some way, the loneliness and difficulty that I saw Agent Scully endure when we worked together. I understand it because against my better judgment, I'm feeling it. Dealing with something I could never understand ( Read more... )

We were sitting in a room at Baltimore County ( Read more... )

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more. - Betty FordI'm getting married ( Read more... )

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. - James Baldwin

I was always raised to stand for something. That's one thing that both my parents gave me, as much as I disparage my mother sometimes; they both knew what they wanted and believed in, and they fought for it. If you're not going to, if you're just going to exist, what's ( Read more... )

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. - Medard BossFive days to my thirty-seventh birthday, and I have no plans whatsoever. Hrm ( Read more... )

"Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater." - Nicholas EvansI've been a little lazy on keeping up with this thing. I haven't written ( Read more... )

"What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his ( Read more... )

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie CurieLife is pretty simple when you think about it. It is what it is. You either keep going, or you give up and go throw yourself off a tall building. Really there are only two choices and one of them isn't much of ( Read more... )

"The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude." -- Arnold Glasgow

After talking to Dr. Cox, I started thinking back on those two years in Balmer Fugitive. It seems like it's almost another life, sometimes, given that it's been eleven years ( Read more... )