he flung himself loose into the stars

“The forest floor was soft and familiar underfoot; the papery, pitchy fir cones stuck to Hugh’s bare feet as they had when he was a boy in Goshen. The dense welter of trees hid the sky completely. After a long walk, he heard the voices. Will Ruffin called to him, Vinnie called to him, [...]

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a kindred, literary spirit

“If someone asks me why I love literature, the answer that I immediately think of is that literature helps me live.
I no longer seek in literature, as I did in adolescence, to avoid wounds that real people could inflict upon me; literature does not replace lived experiences but forms a continuum with them and helps [...]

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mmm. yummy miracle quotes courtesy of tag surfer

Thank you to http://wordofwisdom.wordpress.com/ for these quotes!
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein
“When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.” — [...]

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yummy poem

Fairy in Armour
by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
He put his acorn helmet on;
It was plumed with the silk of thistledown
The corset plate that guarded his heart
Was like a wild bee’s golden vest
His cloak, of a thousand mingled dyes,
Was formed of the wings of a butterfly
His shield was a shell of a lady-bug green
Studs of gold on [...]

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quotes make me happy :)

For all of those who are sorely missed…
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.  I miss you like hell.  ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I [...]

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I love Nickel Creek

Even though they didn’t sing this song at the concert I just attended (YEAY for Downtown Disney HOB)! They sang everything else I could’ve wanted…I love seeing true, passionate musicians live and in a small venue: they always add something to their songs–a reworked bridge, a hilarious addition (like “short people” woven into “the house [...]

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Pope John Paul II

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
~John Paul II
A good thought as the wunderhubby and I consider the responsibilities of starting a family.

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on victimhood….

She’d always chosen not be victimized, to resist and fight back, to hold on to hope and dignity and faith in the future. But victimhood was seductive, a release from respoinsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but instead would spawn a comforting self pity.
Now she [...]

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yummy quote for the day

“Our life’s journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one
level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs
and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the
journey from different directions, certain of the journey’s characteristics
are common to all of us.”
- Stuart Wilde
Shared by my lovely friend, Shereen.

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29fragiledays: reduction 2 (seoul, south korea)

29fragiledays: reduction 2 (seoul, south korea)
an absolutely brilliant idea from the author of 29fragiledays.blogspot.com!! :) Enjoy.

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beautiful little poem

it reminded me of all those tiny “moments” we have with other people…not necessarily romantic or sexual….just those strange bits of intense connection with another soul at the most unexpected moments. I’m not sure what the “cool” or academically in vogue view is on Carl Sandburg’s works, but I love his simple, nuanced verses. They’re [...]

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