for posterity.

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability." -Madeleine L'Engle

Sudden Wholeness
Rumi; trans. Coleman Barks

A thousand half loves
must be forsaken to take
one whole heart home.

"But [Half-Blood Prince] boasts one welcome departure from the other books - a story line that traces the evolution of He Who Must Not Be Named from a damaged lad named Tom Riddle into a diabolical hooray-for-genocide! despot."
-Entertainment Weekly, issue #1007-1008 Aug 22, 2008

Sweet Darkness by David Whyte ( Read more... )

This book's about a child neurologist and his first three years as a stay-at-home dad to his daughter, Athena, and his observations of her life in comparison to his studies. It's really interesting ( Read more... )

Heather Armstrong. It's awesome, so far ( Read more... )

by the co-author of Freakonomics. A couple of quotes, in between packing for the big move ( Read more... )

with a hat tip to drchuckhttp://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2009/05/dear-graduates.htmlRead more... )

I, 12.
Rainer Maria RilkeI believe in all that has never yet been spoken ( Read more... )

my facebook profile was getting a little full for my tastes, so i'm taking out the excerpts from the inauguration speech of barack obama. but i wanted them somewhere. so, here you go.

( we remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things... )

an idea that, in different iterations, keeps me going when macon gets too claustrophobic. yes, this iteration is from sex and the city, but whatever ( Read more... )