“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

yeah…it would happen to me…

26 July, 2009 /

On my first jump out I had a parachute malfunction. I didn’t panic and kicked my way out of it. Scared the shit out of me though. It was good it happened though, showed me how I do in an emergency situation, but when I saw all those lines crossed, I was like, “NO FUCKING WAY! NOT ON MY FIRST FUCKING JUMP!”
My first thought was, “No I am not going to have my first cut away on my first jump!” I grabbed the lines and pulled them apart and just kicked myself around until the lines unraveled and the chute opened up all the way. Talk about a feeling of accomplishment. I was sort of hoping for that to happen after about 30 or so jumps. Yeah, not this girl.

And by the way…the earth is a VERY hard planet and not very forgiving. I broke my toe on that same first jump.
So when I say I am covered from head to toe in bruises…I mean it.

I see a new folder in my pictures. “Kristine’s skydiving injuries.”