“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

SUCCESS!

6 April, 2007 /

It was a GOOD FRIDAY! and I mean that in the non-Easter way. It was good because I actually got to visit everyone’s pages today. I got to pah-rooze around and check out everyone’s HOLY stuff.

I took the girls to the park and took 78 pictures and THREE came out the way I wanted them to. Who knows, a month from now I might like the ones I don’t like today. I’m fickle like that.

Now, the girls are running around, slamming the door, asking, “What can we do now?”

“What can we do now?”

I can think of a list of stuff they could do that would make the quality of my life SO much better. They just roll their sweet, little eyes at me and say in their adorable, little voices, “Mom. I am not going to clean under your bed, scrub your toilet or remove the spiders from the window sills. Something FUN, mom. Something FUN.”

And I thought of the funnest thing in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!

“Let’s all take a family nap!”

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Why am I the only one who thinks that would be a fucking blast about now?