“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

Picture Whore

23 December, 2004 /

I love pictures. I love picture frames, I love photo albums.
Shaun does too, so when he moved in we had 5 times TOO many of all those things.
I’m sort of picky about picture frames. I like a certain look of the wood. I weight it to see if it’s heavy enough to withstand my punishment. I like the cool ceramic looking ones. I like metal ones, that are not scratched up.
Now when Shaun moved in, I found a theme to his picture frames. It’s called the Dollar Tree theme. I swear to GOD, every single frame in his house was found at Dollar Tree. They were PLASTIC!

I didn’t want to freak him out too much. He already had to throw away his lovely sectional couch, his full size bed, oh shit, he had to toss everything.

We brought his paintings and his paint gear….and his framed pictures.

I have slowly gone through and gotten rid of all of his Dollar Tree frames. I have replaced them with nice metal frames (because that’s his favorite) and now in our house, we have every type of frame you can imagine. None of them match.

But none of them are plastic.