Invisible threads are the strongest ties - Friedreich Nietzsche I’m a talker. Born to talkers. The types who will strike up conversations with strangers in line at the post office, which made me cringe with embarrassment until the day I realized that I had become them. I have fascinating …
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums I’m ready for winter. …
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. - Ray Bradbury That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I’m being chased. …
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. - Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women In high school I first became involved with Planned Parenthood and NOW, not old enough to vote, but old enough to get pregnant, old enough to …
Once upon a time, life was not backed up on external hard drives. We loved, we lost, we moved forward. Yet we didn’t lose all that much. There are lifetimes of written correspondence and journals, paintings and photographs that have survived centuries, millennia, without a Dropbox. We live in fear …
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. - Rollo May At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basketand tell myself that if I failed, at least I took …
We survived Carmageddon. For almost 48 hours we had cleaner air. Here’s to a productive, creative, happy week ahead. xo a.