There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
  - Alice Thomas Ellis

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

- Paul Valery

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
  - Burt Bacharach

Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen | Anthem

"There's an old saying: Not knowing is most intimate. Meaning, the way to get closest to something is to stop having a lot of ideas about it. Or, there are ways of knowing that aren't so much about concepts and opinions. Or, when we approach something as an expert, we sometimes stop exploring possibilities."

Long-term relationships don't survive on expectations, because they are rarely the same for both parties. They survive on acceptance.

"Tending the things around us and becoming sensitive to the importance of home, daily schedule, and maybe even the clothes we wear, are ways of caring for the soul. When Marsilio Ficino wrote his self-help book, The Book of Life, five hundred years ago, he placed emphasis on carefully choosing colors, spices, oils, places to walk, countries to ( Read more... )

“To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.”    - Ben Franklin

isn't that a sad little commentary about how women treat each other.

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn’t want you to be an architect, because it’s a tough way to be in the world. Look, my son who graduated from law school three years ago makes more than I do after 40 years of working.  - Peter Eisenmann

ooh, ouch.

love the green. i'm thinking of trying to do something involving peg board, mirror, shelves, and hooks ( Read more... )

wow...where is everyone in lj-land?

make your own bagged popcorn - i am pretty tempted to try this, as i don't have access to an air popper anymore (and who wanted the hassle of storing the thing anyway?). great way to pop clean popcorn for strands at christmas. also, the website is my new substitute for ready-made. since ready-made doesn't come ( Read more... )

"At the same time, young men get away without such cautionary lessons: Stepp follows a long pattern of leaving them out of the picture. From at least the 1920s (when everyone thought flappers were destroying manners) on through the 1980s (when teen pregnancy rates had everyone alarmed), girls have been hearing that their sex lives are the symbol of ( Read more... )

distraction is practically medicinal when you're in a situation that simply takes time. it's kind of like sleep - a lot of healing can happen and it's not required that you be paying attention for it to proceed.

-me, a long time ago