I’m going to keep the dream alive. Or sew together pieces of several dead dreams, apply lightning to the electrodes, and hope for the best.
Excuse me!
Sometimes I apologize to inanimate objects when I bump into them by accident.
If I bump into them on purpose, it’s generally nothing personal.
Timing
Beneath dead leaves
Green shoots look up at snow
And laugh; “Your days are numbered,” they think,
“And ours are yet to come.”
Nobody seems to think about these details (other than me), and probably for good reason
If the world was my oyster, how would I possibly get enough cocktail sauce to go with it?
Your true task
Your true task has just begun, and you may not know in your life if you have succeeded in it, but only if you fail.
— Peter S. Beagle
The heart wants what the heart wants
Sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants.
And tonight the heart wants picante chicken ramen.
Oh, wait. That would be what the stomach wants.
I’m OK with that.
Pinball wizards
I’ve figured this out. My cats are the pinballs in the pinball machine that is my house. Imagine a 15 pound furry pinball careening around, claws out, randomly knocking things over, and you get the idea.
Say a Holy Yes
A writer must say yes to life, to all of life: the water glasses, the Kemp’s half-and-half, the ketchup on the counter. It is not a writer’s task to say, ‘It is dumb to live in a small town or to eat in a café when you can eat macrobiotic at home.’ Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist – the real truth of who we are.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Celebrations of spring
I celebrate the first crocus, the first robin of spring. Someone else can celebrate the first blackfly.
Life lessons
Never try to drink a Muse under the table.