"I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day-- the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they ( Read more... )

"Occasionally, when Ammu listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch, to a better, happier place. On days like this there was something restless and untamed about her. As though she had temporarily set aside the morality of motherhood ( Read more... )

Donna brought this quote to my attention in one of her posts and I have to re-post it here. I find it highly appropriate at the moment in so many ways.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

This morning I finished reading Watership Down. Again. For the millionth time. Every time I read it I fall more in love with the story and the stories within the story and humanity that comes unexpectedly and powerfully shining through.
The following is one of my favorite moments in the book.

Vervain advanced slowly across the floor. Even he could ( Read more... )

"had a drink the other day, opinions were like kittens i was giving them away.
had a drink the other day, I had A LOT to say"

“To protect ourselves, we spun cocoons out of TV, books, video games, early stolen alcohol, and dreams. And then one day we realize we’re grown up yet still all muffled inside what we’ve built around us. We don’t feel real. 'There were often times when he would feel as if he were lifting out of his body and observing himself from above,' Dan Chaon ( Read more... )

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more then living size when they're brought out. But, it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret ( Read more... )

I have to pointlessly vent about something I heard today that I thought was just really crass. EQ came home from China yesterday and was telling me about the part of her trip where she was able to tour the Forbidden City. She said that it was beautiful and peaceful and absolutely incredible until you go to leave. Apparently at the exit from the ( Read more... )