Frank's Red Hot,I put that shit on everything - Grandma

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. ~Charlotte Gray

“so even an assassin can make the flowers grow"

David Ives - Variations on The Death of Trotsky

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them. In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night. You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~ e.e.cummings

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver

You know the proof is in the pudding. So do you keep ordering yogurt?

too wonderful not to share...
 

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "

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“That which is beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.” -Ninon de L’Enclos

nice is different then good- little red riding hood

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

-Steve Jobs


rest in peace

Rules of Karma
 

"The great hand of Karma shall even the score,
The wronged vindicated,
The manipulative exposed, so all may know their evils acts,
No amount of regret, forgiveness or treading lighty can advert the forces which level.
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly,
Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
At the moment of recogning no adage shall ring truer,
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. ~ Steve Jobs

1. I'm a girl with power

(Power)

2. One girl CAN make a difference

... (Courage)

3. I try my best

(Effort)

4. And maybe someday somehow I will make a change.
(Hope)

written by my little one age 10

Love After Love by Derek Walcott
 

The time will come

When, after elation

You will greet yourself arriving

At your own door, in your own mirror,

And each will smile at the other's welcome,



And say, sit here, Eat.

You will love again the stranger that was yourself.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

To itself, to the stranger who has loved you



All your life, whom you ignored

For another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the letters from the bookshelf,



The photographs, the desperate notes,

Peel your image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

The Rules for Being Human, by Cherie Carter-Scott
 

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a fulltime informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."

4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you. The answer to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. This will often be forgotten, only to be remembered again.

Boys on the Side

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? ~ Bill Maher

On a bit of a Bill Maher kick today...
 

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. ~ Bill Maher

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. ~ Bill Maher

Listen to your heart. It's on your left side, but always right.