Nice shit my friends said about me

One intellectual and caring woman that thrives on individuality and boldly resisting medians. You are thoughtful, analytical, compassionate, independent, insightful, astute, fun, balanced, contemplative, aware... An intuitive resource center of wit, creative solutions in logical wording and the back bone of a nascar driving speeding his way through the track A bad ass bitch I'll …

Don’t I Know It

Self-contemplation is a curse that makes an old confusion worse. -- Theodore Roethke

Do it right

 "Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will …

Politics, Progress, Pain

"We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn’t have the good of …

Build me up, Buttercup

The bonds of family bind both ways. They bind us up, support us, help us, and they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself. --Desire, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman #72, Part III of "The Wake"

picking through The Secret Life of Bees

I've just finished reading The Secret Life of Bees. I know I'm late on it, but at least I'm reading! I'm getting it done. After this little write-up is done I've included my favorite quotes. Just little bits that jumped out at me when I read them. I'm not going to do a book review. …

Tim Wise

"Race, if you learn nothing else, is not a card. And this thing we’re talking about is not a game. It’s real life, where actions have real consequences. Your actions have consequences and we’re just counting them up. You don’t have to like that. But you can’t blame the calculator." -- Tim Wise

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"All my fantasies included marriage. No sooner did I imagine myself running away from one man than I envisioned myself tying up with another. I was like a boat that always had to have a port of call. I simply couldn't imagine myself without a man. Without one, I felt lost as a dog without …