“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” -Rumi

“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.” -Rumi

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. — “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963

Respect your haters. They are the ones who think you are better than them. -Unknown

You don’t understand, no-one does. When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you’re expected move again only you don’t remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself. You never in your life think that love like this can happen to you. -Francesca, Bridges of Madison County

“Motherfuckin’ tittysuckin’ two-balled bitch!” -Agent Zoil – Paul

yep, it’s official. I am my mother.

23 October, 2006 /

Kara: “Mom, I want to make cookies.”
Me: “*sigh* just come lay down with me for a few minutes.”
Kara: “no, I wanna make cookies”
(Which means, I have to drive her to get the stuff and MAKE the damn cookies)
Me: “Come on, Bear…come cuddle wif your momma.”
Kara: “*giggle* No, I know If I get in bed with you I won’t want to get up.”
Me: *Silent*
Kara: “No.”
Me: *Silent and doing the puppy dog eyes while doing the cute cuddle under the covers look*
Kara: “Mooooooommmm, nooooo. I won’t get up!”
Me: (this is the moment I turn into my mother) “If you loved me, you would come cuddle.”
Kara: “I do love you….”
Me: (The clencher that I am officially my mother) “No, you don’t…you don’t love me..if you loved me…”

It would have been TOTALLY official if she hadn’t walked down the hall before I forgot the closer that ALWAYS worked for me when I was a kid. “I’m going to be dead someday and you will have wished you had cuddled with me!!”

The Fonz has cast an evil curse.