Quote of the Day

"It's like the clogged pores keep your self esteem from escaping."
- Sally, 3rd Rock from the Sun 1.7

Quote of the Day

"The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life."
- Derek Walcott, "Love After Love"

Quote of the Day

"I kind of have a crush on him, actually.  He reminds me of Jesus."
- Anna L.

This is not mine; original source unknown.

Quote of the Day

"We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists.  People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them.  Not so.  People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think.  In fact, the greater your doubt, the more heroic your faith."
- Real Live Preacher (Gordon Atkinson)

Quote of the Day

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
- Doug Larson

(I love you, Wednesday mornings!)

Quote of the Day

"Today we packed up the library.  Basically, we took away everything that the children love."
- Anna L.

Quote of the Day

   "My cousins and I,
    we don’t marry.
    We’re too old
    by Mexican standards.
    And the relatives
    have long suspected
    we can’t anymore
    in white.
    My cousins and I,
    we’re all old
    maids at thirty.
    Who won’t dress children,
    and never saints–
    though we undress them.
    The aunts,
    they’ve given up on us.
    No longer nudge–You’re next.
    Instead–
    What happened in your childhood?
    What left you all mean teens?
    Who hurt you, honey?
    But we’ve studied
    marriages too long–
    Aunt Ariadne,
    Tia Vashti,
    Comadre Penelope,
    querida Malintzin,
    Senora Pumpkin Shell–
    lessons that served us well!"
    - Sandra Cisneros, "Old Maids"

Quote of the Day

"Working here is like being on the View."
- Dr. Clark Edison, Bones ep. 5.3

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes what you're after is not your fault
Cause happy ever after is what you're taught."
- Takka Takka, "Fever"

(This is how I feel today.)

Quote of the Day

"We're finally drunk enough that we're finally soaking up
The hours that everyone else throws away"
- We Are Scientists, "After Hours"

 

Photo via Ramsay.

Quote of the Day

"But you can do everything.
That's what I think.
Our lives are long and full and if we love and work and want, we can do it all.
everything
everything.
    even more than we are able to imagine."
- Cindy Crabb, Doris #24

(Recommended viewing.)

Quote of the Day

"I don't wanna be
Your favorite enemy
Not when I can be loving you, alright
Why can't it be?
No two people feel
The same way at the same time"
- The Submarines, "Xavia"

Quote of the Day

"Everyone is always saying BUY LOCAL and I'm beginning to think they don't mean my local Target store..."
- Lisa Valentine Clark (via)

Quote of the Day

"Now, when he and I meet, after all these years,
I say to the bitch inside me, don’t start growling.  
He isn’t a trespasser anymore,
Just an old acquaintance tipping his hat."
- Carolyn Kizer, "Bitch"

Quote of the Day

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.  For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face.  Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known."
- 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NRSV)

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Quote of the Day

"Life is slippery.  Here, take my hand."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Quote of the Day

"One resolution I have made is this: To rise above little things."
- John Burroughs

Quote of the Day

"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
- Willa Cather, My Antonia

Photo via Danielle on FB.

Quote of the Day

"As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus."
- Galatians 3:27-28 (NRSV)

Quote of the Day

"You tried to make me doubt, to make me guess, 
tried to make me feel like a little less,
Oh, I liked you when your soul was bared, 
I thought you knew how to be scared,
And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay,
But truth is just like time, 
it catches up and it just keeps going,"
- Dar Williams, "As Cool As I Am"

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Quote of the Day

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral (1655)

Photo via Ramsay.

Quote of the Day

"Winter teaches us about detachment, numbness
But it’s a way to get through
From winter we learn silence and acceptance and the stillness thickens."
- Gail Barison, “The Winter Solstice of my Soul”

Photo via Ramsay.

Quote of the Day

"One kind word can warm three winter months."
- Japanese proverb

Photo via Danielle on FB.
 

Quote of the Day

"And the snow is coming down
On our New England town
And it's been falling all day long
What else is new
What could I do
I wrote a valley winter song
To play for you"
- Fountains of Wayne, "Valley Winter Song"

(Recommended viewing)

Quote of the Day

"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Photo via Danielle on FB.

Quote of the Day

"Every mile is two in winter."
- George Herbert

Quote of the Day

"I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight."
- Philip Pullman (via)

 (waiting for the library to open on a wintery day)