“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

Conversations @ the Random and Odd House

11 September, 2007 /

“Kristine.”
“Yep.”
[Big Eyes — I’m in trouble]
“Kristine…how many containers of product would you guess are in the shower?”
[covering my eyes — I’m in trouble]
“Just guess. How many bottles of WHATEVER in there; shampoo, conditioner, soaps. How many would you guess?”
[peeking out from hands]
“THIRTY FIVE! There are THIRTY FIVE BOTTLES OF STUFF IN THE SHOWER! That is a bottle for every year you have been alive.”
[mumble something about him taking out the trash in there]
“That’s it. I’m going to shower in the sink for now on.”

My sister is a hairdresser. I can’t help it.