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A New Year! (Let’s hope it’s less bumpy than the last!)

Angela — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:08:50 +0000

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

-Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Quotes

Angela — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:22:40 +0000

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” –St. Augustine

Monday Musings – Beware It’s a Ramble

Angela — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:11:01 +0000

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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”-e.e. Cummings

I’ve been in one of those overwhelming, awkward moods lately that causes me to wallow, ponder, bemoan, embrace and leap for joy. In other words, my brain is jam packed full of thoughts and crap, melancholy and delight, fear and bravery. It’s an odd combination to be sure. I’m certain a large majority of this is due to me stumbling through life experiences, a little behind the curve.

I also have been forcing myself to admit that it’s not because I’ve been too busy that I haven’t been writing anything. I’ve spent waaaaayyyy too much time lately watching sappy, wonderful, make-you-roll-your-eyes-and-maybe-shed-a-tear-when-no-one-is-looking Christmas Movies.

I woke up to a foot of snow.

Angela — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:47:05 +0000

Well, maybe it wasn’t quite a foot…but it’s still the first real snow of the year. It fell just as Christmas lights and trees were springing up everywhere, holiday plans were being solidified and present lists were being double checked. So, even though I was coming off of a long weekend of debauchery and sheer laziness, the snow made my morning trek to work seem somewhat magical. Check back in 2 months, I’m sure that “magical” feeling will be a dim memory.

“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.” -William Sharp

My day in a profound quote.

Angela — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:41:03 +0000

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. – Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider