We're all connected like the scarf, one piece of yarn.
If you cut it up into little pieces, it's useless. You can't make anything out of it.
We're all responsible - everything that we touch, everything that touches us.

Connections exist long before we're aware of them.
They've always existed.
They always will.

from Joan of Arcadia Season 2

Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist.

Sometimes we have to be brought to our knees in order to get in touch with who we really are and what we really want. We can't heal until we hit rock bottom.

from Joan of Arcadia - God to Joan

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
- Aldous Huxley

From The Beach House by James Patterson & Peter de Jonge ( Read more... )

I really like it when the little coffee shops or bistros have areas where they put up children's artwork from the local schools. Today the topic that the children had to ponder and draw a picture describing was the secret of an object. They could choose whether it was a person, place or thing and draw what the secret was ( Read more... )

Thank goodness. I finally finished The Secret Life of Bees. I had to force myself to finish, but I'm glad because it truly was a lovely story. By the last 2 chapters I had stopped thinking of home and my mom. I don't think I'll be rereading it anytime soon though. Way too depressing for me ( Read more... )

Well, I know why I'm having trouble getting through The Secret Life of Bees, it reminds me of home. I'm homesick. So reading the book just makes me sad. Great! Now how long is it going to take me to read this book ( Read more... )