“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

Random and Odd

white hair and big glasses

11 March, 2007 /

We like to spend a few hours with Shaun’s parents at least once a month. Today they brought us to lunch along with Grandma.

At some point during lunch, a woman and her children came in and one was screaming quite loudly.
Grandma looked over at Shaun’s dad and without fear of CPS popping out of the booth next to us and said, “My kids never did that. You certainly never did that. If you did that when you were a kid I would have shoved my fist down your throat.”

Shaun’s dad, in typical Shaun’s Dad fashion said, “Ohhh Geez! Mom!” and looked around to see if anyone had heard his mother say that.

I had a mouth full of French Dip when she said it.

She then said, “You know. I have like 22 grandchildren. I am so lucky. Not an ugly one in the bunch.”

I love having lunch with that woman.