"Don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we ( Read more... )

I am in Key Largo. I have seen more life, more wild, happening-all-around-me LIFE, in the last few days than I have in the last 10 years. I have the Atlantic Ocean to one side of me and the Gulf of Mexico to the other. Every day, I wake up and am in disbelief that I'm even here. Today, I was informed that there is an 8-foot saltwater crocodile ( Read more... )

I have to ask myself right now, if I have any business owning more than I can carry.

The God Who Only Knows Four Words by Hafiz

Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don'ts,
Not the God who ever does anything weird,
But the God who only knows four words
And keeps repeating them, saying:
"Come dance with me."
Come dance.

I am heroically doing laundry. It's shocking to me that they don't give out medals for this kind of thing.

I guess unless something changes dramatically, as of this morning I can now state: I am a tea person.

If you told me today that I was never going to have another cup of coffee as long as I live, it would effect me not at all.

I only allowed for 50 characters in the answer space last time, and it strikes me that may make it impossible for some of you to answer! I've fixed it.

Poll D'oh, let's try this again: it's that time of year that I realize I don't have anyone's current address. Some of you have had the nerve to move on me! Again! So ...

Mark, I already got yours. Thanks!

Sorry I have been slow to respond to some of the comments in my journal. My e-mail account is dumping my e-mail notifications for some reason, so sometimes I don't realize someone has commented until I get a chance to come back here and look. D'oh!

I look at cookbooks like other people look at travel books. They often are travel books. I don't know if I'll ever cook from my French Farmhouse Cookbook, but I love to look at it and read the anecdotes about French country life. Sometimes, cookbooks are history books. I have read and re-read my mom's American Heritage Cookbook, which is as ( Read more... )

So, I gave that nutritional pep talk yesterday, and now I'm having diet soda and the Anti-Oxident NUT-rition Mix that Tonya sent me, for breakfast. At noon.

C'est la vie.