May 2013
2 posts
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and...”
– J. M. Barrie, 1860 - 1937
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Watch5 Minutes of Animals Trying to Stay Awake
Best five minutes of me week, so far.
April 2013
3 posts
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
– Cynthia Ozick
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having...”
– Willie Nelson
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough...”
– Herm Albright
March 2013
1 post
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a...”
– Joseph Campbell
February 2013
1 post
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves,...”
– Thomas Merton
December 2012
2 posts
“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other...”
– Dalai Lama XIV (via kari-shma)
December
In December
I will be
a baubled, bangled
Christmas tree
with soup bowls
draped all over me.
Merry once,
Merry twice,
Merry Chicken Soup with Rice.
I told you once, I told you twice, all seasons of the year are nice for eating Chicken Soup with Rice.
~ Maurice Sendak
November 2012
10 posts
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama XIV (via kari-shma)
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are...”
– Dale Carnegie
Goodreads quote of the day
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re...”
– Henry Ford
Goodreads quote of the day
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Goodreads quote of the day
Sorry, but this is my hole →
a short, sweet little email from a good friend.
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy
Good reads quote of the day
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a...”
– Alan Moore
Goodreads quote of the day
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the...”
– William Arthur Ward
Goodreads Quote of the Day
“The horror you face today will become the funny story you tell tomorrow.
In the...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Experience Becomes A Story (via kari-shma)
November
In November’s
gusty gale,
I will flop
my flippy tail
and spout hot soup.
I’ll be a whale!
Spouting once,
Spouting twice,
Spouting Chicken Soup
with Rice.
~ Maurice Sendak
October 2012
13 posts
“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson
Goodreads quote of the day
“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always...”
– Doris Lessing
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
– Socrates
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
– Mark Twain (via kari-shma)
“Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have, or...”
– Terry McMillan
Goodreads quote of the day
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
– Lewis Carroll (via kari-shma)
“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”
– Heather Brewer
“You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words...”
– Nicholas Sparks
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The unfed mind devours itself.”
– Gore Vidal
October
In October
I’ll be host
to witches, goblins
and a ghost.
I’ll serve them
chicken soup
on toast.
Whoopy once,
Whoopy twice,
Whoopy Chicken Soup with Rice.
~Maurice Sendak
September 2012
12 posts
“Do a loony-goony dance
‘Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in...”
– Shel Silverstein
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out...”
– François de La Rochefoucauld
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kari-shma)
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the...”
– Paulo Coelho
“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay...”
– Jon Katz (via kari-shma)
September
In September
for a while
I will ride
a crocodile
down the
chicken soupy Nile.
paddle once,
paddle twice,
paddle chicken soup with rice.
~ Maurice Sendak
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to...”
– Maya Angelou (via kari-shma)
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
– Flannery O’Connor
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via kari-shma)
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your...”
– Joan Crawford
August 2012
14 posts
“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the...”
– Shana Abé (via kari-shma)
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith,...”
– Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby (via kari-shma)
“What’s meant to be will always find a way.”
– Trisha Yearwood (via kari-shma)
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via kari-shma)
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you...”
– Nicholas Sparks
Humor: If Fonts Had Voices They Would Sound Like... →
In this hilarious video, Jonathan Garcia of The Minute Vlog gave voices to fonts. It’s eerily on point—I always imagined Arial to be a pompous, stuffy guy with an English accent and Comic Sans to be a numbnut. But I want more!
