“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

Happy Birthday to Mom the Fonz….

6 November, 2008 /

I wanted to spend the day with her. To be able to get one of her most awesomest hugs. To see her blow out her candles.

There are things going on at Random and Odd that will not allow me to be there, and I know she understands and hopes she can forgive me for not being there.
If anyone knows anything about cleaning out the proverbial house, it’s my mom. She is an example of how people can go from good to bad to good to bad to good to bad to good again. She is the finest example of people who have come so far with so little. She is the epitome of how to do something wrong, then make it right again. She is an example that I live by, for both the bad and the good.
She has taught me so much by example the woman I want to be.

Happy Birthday, you old hag!

Love,

Your Obama voting, gay supporting, gun controlled and HOPE FILLED daughter,
or AKA…your favorite,

Kristine :)

(also, much love from her husband…FIVE kids (you were right mom, I had 5!) and TWO obnoxiously adorable dogs!)