I'm no longer going to be using this journal. I have switched over to a new one, nonahs, so please add that! I've already added most of you.

Au revoir, journal. It's been fun. Time for a change...

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Chi dara fine al gran dolore?
L'ore.

("Who will put an end to this great sadness?" "The hours passing.")
House of Leaves

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
A Midsummer Night's Dream

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix

"Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. And those people ( Read more... )

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day to day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov

I can't believe there still aren't stricter penalties for animal cruelty. Obviously, as an animal lover I'm concerned. But I think everyone should be. Animal abusers are (very) often people abusers ( Read more... )

I'm reading a new book called Hope's Edge; The Next Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe, and so far it's really good. Here are a few very interesting excerpts that I think are definitely worth noting ( Read more... )

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."
-Gilda Radner-