“It was information that struck him as terribly sad, terribly lonely - to imagine the infants of the world scoping the blurry atmosphere above them for faces the way primitive people scrutinized the stars for patterns, the way castaways stare at the moon, the blinking of a satellite. It made him sad to think of the baby gathering information - a ( Read more... )

“We’re wanted like a snowflake in hell.”
-My Grandma

(in response to how much my brother wants us around)

I would so rob Jesse McCartney's cradle. Oh yes.

"Before I put the puzzle together, it all seemed incomprehensible to me, but I was sure that if I ever managed to complete it, the separate parts would each have meaning and the whole would be harmonious. Each piece has a reason for being the way it is…At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very ( Read more... )

“When she first felt her son’s groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover’s caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm. She had never experienced that feeling before, when her lover had kissed ( Read more... )

"There is a bus
waiting in a diesel fumed stall
your name in big letters
above the driver's seat

look out silver chromed windows
unevenly opened
calculate the distance to a future
when the children are gone

Another life to board
prepare yourself for the long ride
although it will feel like you've never left"

-By Susan Riback, author of ( Read more... )

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace ( Read more... )

"He kissed her on the mouth for the first time. Sierva Maria's body shivered in a lament, emitted a tenuous ocean breeze, and abandoned itself to its fate. He passed his fingertips over her skin almost without touching her, and experienced for the first time the miracle of feeling himself in another body. An inner voice told him how far he had ( Read more... )

This morning I was superficially pondering Tay, and how hot he is now that he's growing his hair out again like in those irreplaceable blissful days of 1997. But then I heard about something even hotter than Tay's hair. Ricky Martin is in Thailand, helping Tsunami orphans, identifying bodies, and doing everything he can to make a small difference ( Read more... )

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