This is what I was trying to say. This exactly. Thank you, Maurice Sendak. And thanks, Neil Gaiman, for providing the link.

http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1993-09-27#folio=080

So sad to have lost the great Maurice Sendak. In honour, I want to post a quote, a link to one of my favourite of his books, and a thought as to how we cheat ourselves when it comes to children ( Read more... )

...to watch Tideland again.

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...to re-watch Tideland because I don't know if I'd make it through the entire thing. I just remember being so, so heartbroken at the end, marveling at the resilience of children and how powerful their magic is. Gosh, it's such a horrifying and beautiful film.

It's your daddy's fault you were the way you were, not mine. 'Cause I loved you... lip ( Read more... )

Okay, so as some of you know and many of you do not know, my middle name is Virginia. I was named after two grandmothers--my first name coming from my Papa's (my father's father's) mother, and my middle name coming from my mother's mother (we practice a LOT of transcendency in my family). And when you're born in the first half of the 80s, when ( Read more... )

I do not understand the male/female dance. There is some language at play there that I'm not privy to ( Read more... )