"...Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"
-- Wassily Kandinsky

(Driving through the NH mountains to MA.)

John: Oh, I thought you were making fun of me!
Coco: No, it was genuine! Let me be clear. (yells out the window) I LOVE JOHN WILSON!
John: (grins)
Coco: I don't want you to ever be confused about my intentions!

I feel like a jerk when I say this, but I have a really hard time feeling bad for people when they overdraw their accounts unless it was a bank error. It's just a level of irresponsibility that I can't fathom. The check you wrote not getting cashed for two weeks sucks, but it's still your responsibility to know that money is spent even if it doesn' ( Read more... )

"I'm sorry. I treated you like a girl when I should have treated you like a warrior."
-- Sokka, Avatar: The Last Airbender

"Ever drifting down the stream--
Lingering in the golden gleam--
Life, what is it but a dream?"
-- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Sometimes I feel like a teeny-bopper for enjoying Taylor Swift's music, but I do. Kind of a guilty pleasure, I guess. I don't think she's the best thing since sliced bread, and there are definitely bigger musical talents out there. But, for me, she's reminiscent of Jewel and the 90's and days when the biggest problem you had was trying to get Boy X ( Read more... )

There are a great many people--most of them friends--who I would just like to cradle and hold and love for a time because they deserve it from somebody at least, and there doesn't seem like anything else I can do.

Wal-Mart
Saturday, 8:47 PM

Scene: We've just picked up a couple seventy-five cent plant pots for some little herbs I was given and decide to check out at the garden center instead of waiting in line near the front. Besides, the girl looks booooored.

Coco: Hey, you looked pretty bored over here so we decided to give you something to do.
Girl: Oh ( Read more... )

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it." -- Brian Tracy

Don is our beloved little old Frenchman who works as our part-time custodian/courier.

Don: (looking at the Ed Center schedule) What's this, there? Zombie classes? What do you do? Throw them around like this?-- (makes dealing cards motions)
Coco: No, Don. Zumba classes. Zumba. Not zombies!
Don: (all flustered in the way little old guys get) Well!