“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

Everyone Loves “BEFORE AND AFTER” pictures

29 August, 2005 /

Can you just see how much more relaxed I am right now?

A few months back I was reading Project Greenthumb and I was so motivated to clean up my backyard. Well, that lasted 5 seconds. Then Strizzay was taking pictures of her backyard and I thought I would do that too, but I did super close up on the weeds and made it look artistic. Then I decided to buck up and be honest and I took those before pictures. Strizzay, I think I might be able to quote this right, said: “Get off your ass and clean that shit up!”

Well, it’s taken awhile, but it’s on phase 1 of “Project Gett’r Done”. It’s not even close to being anywhere in the same neighborhood of being done, but look how far we’ve come!

Now when Pissy Britches and Recovering Straight Girl get here in FOUR days, I can invite them into my backyard and know when we come back in they won’t be covered in foxtails and bitten by some crazy backyard animal or bug.

I love you Shaun & Tyler. Thank you for making me so much more relaxed and less stressed out.