"Tears are words the heart can not express."

A funny thing happened tonight on my way home from the radio station:

I cried.

At first, I thought it was the wind in my eyes as I flew up First Street on my bicycle.

But then my chest heaved and the tears came flowing.

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

--E.E. Cummings

Another Monday come and all but gone.

Tonight is the dawning of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. This I am looking forward to, even ( Read more... )

Gasoline has dipped below $4 a gallon.

My Honda's tank is currently full, so I am tempted to go out and fill up a few of those red-gallon portable gas tank-things.

This is what it has come to. Hoarding gasoline at "good" prices.

You know I really wouldn't succumb to gasoline hoarding, but it's the thought that counts, right?

"Our whole childhood remains to be re-imagined. In re-imagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child ( Read more... )

"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expect generally happens."

--Benjamin Disraeli

Suddenly I'm transported back to this pubescent phenomenon when a silent telephone makes or breaks my evening.

Interesting.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

--Socrates

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

--Les Brown

"Quelquefois seulement une personne est manque et le monde entier semble dépeuplé."

--Alphonse de Lamartine

I must go to bed.

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

--Robert Southey

"Je t'aime," il a dit.

Et j'étais heureux.

"Apply yourself. By God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

--Lee Iacocca

I don't really believe in unrealistic things anymore.

Perhaps I am disillusioned?

Or just smart?

Either way, I tend to believe in the real, in the obtainable, in the present.

I do believe that better comes from within. There is no one on ( Read more... )