( Big Doors )

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will
bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.
-Anais Nin, author (1903-1977)

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to
avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness
to expand. -Mark Abley, journalist (1955- )

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. -Louis Kronenberger, writer(1904-1980)

( a couple of short ones )

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and
writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it
is with what he vowed to make it.
-J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright(1860-1937)

( it's long, but I don't care - I liked it )

...that my work e-mail spell-check suggested that I replace "Tuesday11" (they forgot to put a space there) with "Taoist." Not "Tuesday." "Taoist."

That's ridiculous. It's not even funny.

( this one's really long, but it made me giggle *and* think, which is always a bonus )

I just realized that this month is my two-year LJ anniversary. Weird. That's a lot of navel-gazing.

I WENT TO SEE THE OCEAN!!!

Hooray! I'm a happy kid.