to live is to fly, and other scribbles: August 2015

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Staycation Summer

We (and Waterbell) have been enjoying visits from friends and family almost every weekend since Memorial Day, and I'm so grateful! It makes me feel like I'm on vacation without having to go anywhere (and the dogs are waggingly delighted, too!) My dad came last weekend, Jose's brother Luis and his family all came the following weekend, Jose's niece Adriana came just before my Dad... in mid-July Karen came for a visit from Monterey, at Fourth of July, Nick came up from Baltimore, the week and a half before that we saw him in Baltimore. Next week Luba's stopping in Western Mass to meet me for a day and then Mom and Dad will be back again the rest of August.

it was also a big frickin' deal that I got to hold hands with
Wall-E

at the science museum Pixar exhibit last month.

Quotes

I could always count on luck and a continuing sense that I was one of God's favorite people, and that everything was going to work out fine. It usually did.
-Ossie Davis

To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
– David Foster Wallace

Staying aloof is not a solution, it's a cowardly evasion.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

sing your life...
-Morrissey

for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine.
-e.e. cummings

and you can dream, so dream out loud.
-Bono

I got my feet on the ground and i don't go to sleep to dream.
-Fiona Apple

Resilience is a precious skill.
People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a belief that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life's turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.
-Amanda Ripley

When we presume that our greatness and our prosperity is ours alone, forgive us. When we fail to treat our fellow human beings and all the Earth with the respect that they deserve, forgive us. As we face these difficult days ahead, may we have a new birth of clarity in our aims, responsibility in our actions, humility in our approaches, and civility in our attitudes... [and] may all people of good will join together to work for a more just, a more healthy, and a more prosperous nation and a peaceful planet.
-Rick Warren, Invocation Prayer at President Obama's Inauguration

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.
- Jillian Michaels

You cannot know something new until you have listened. Liking and disliking is not all there is.
-Bruce Adolphe

"It's life, Sidda. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."
-Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

like Kurosawa I make mad films.
k, I don't make films.
but if I did, they'd have a samurai.

-Barenaked Ladies

what you want, how you want it, when you want it, any time you want it - it's a good idea!

-Otis Redding

One of the first things I learned is vanity has got to go.
-Michael J. Fox

If you're afraid of something, do it.
-Eunice Shriver

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the last begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
- e.e. cummings

I'm a perfectionist, and perfect is a skinned knee.
-Faith No More

guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain, and ironing out the rough spots is the hardest part where memories remain. and it's times like these when we all need to hear the radio 'cause from the lips of some old singer, we can share the troubles we already know...
-Elton John

"You want a toe?
I can get you a toe.
Believe me. There are ways,
dude, you don't wanna know..."

-John Goodman, The Big Lebowski