Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.

~Ronnie Max Oldham

Lately during play time Jordan is all over the place. Are you familiar with the stage toddlers hit, when they've mostly got walking under control and become fearless? Jordan is doing the rat equivalent of that. I used to be able to hang out with him on the couch and he wouldn't leave it because it's too tall. Now he'll jump off of it and take off ( Read more... )

This is from a somewhat long but very good post on living with depression. Warning - may be triggery ( Read more... )

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted.
Each victory must be applauded,
because it is so easy not to battle at all,
to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.

~Audre Lorde

The characters below are speaking about a friend who has died.
"We never toasted Gabby," Beth said ( Read more... )

These quotes live on my user info page, but I don't see them often enough there...

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it.
The time will pass anyway;
we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

~Earl Nightingale

A year from now you may wish you had ( Read more... )

(Grandpa asks Boris, the dance teacher, about his granddaughter Essie's progress with dance lessons)

Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: How's Essie doing?
Boris Kolenkhov: Between you and me, she stinks.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Oh well, as long as she's happy.

from You Can't Take It with You

"The lower half of the falls was hidden in mist with a rainbow across it. Paddle fell through the rainbow and went on falling. Paddle had ridden rapids. He had ridden the Mad River and seen the rapids at the Sioux, so big that ships went around them. But these rapids -- thirty foot waves rushed on shooting stars turning inside and out at every jump ( Read more... )

So there I was, hurtling through the air at a high rate of speed and entirely certain, in a preliterate and visceral manner, that this unfortunate accidental enterprise would only serve to prove what I already knew, namely, that I couldn't fly. Not even a little bit. The immediate future, which I had compressed down to a matter of seconds, seemed ( Read more... )

I seem to be working from these a lot lately...

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

~Author Unknown

Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

~James Baldwin

The best thing about the future
is that it comes only one day at a time.

~Abraham Lincoln