The Toad saw at once how wrongly and foolishly he had acted. He admitted his errors and his wrong-headedness and made a full apology to Rat .. and he wound up by saying, with that frank self-surrender which always disarmed his friends' criticism and won them back to his side, "Ratty! I see that I have been a headstrong and a willful Toad! ( Read more... )

After thirty-five years of occasional telephone conversations, I wish she would stop saying, "It's me."

She thinks that, by now, I ought to distinguish her telephone voice from all others who can say that.

I don't think so, because I haven't yet heard all the others.
 

The verb addle ("to make or become confused") derives from a noun, Old English adel ("pool of excrement").

Despite my travels and travails, I now weigh 190 lbs.

yay!

I wish all my readers a happy Valentine's Day.

To those who have pierced my heart: Thank you for not making my blood drip on the floor.
 

Wake up to find out
that you are the eyes of the world
but the heart has its beaches
its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you
are the song that the morning brings
but the heart has its seasons
its evenings and songs of its own

"A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."

-- James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson

"I am at home in the world wherever there are clouds, birds, and human tears."
                                                              -- Rosa Luxemburg

Coloring books aren't the same as when I was young.

"You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful.  If not, it can't be helped."  
                                                                  --   Frederick Perls

If only my friend can find an employer whose ideas about scheduling are consistent with hers!