January 2009
48 posts
“Only stupid people get bored.”
– Grandma
“You know, I don’t think I could take a mellow evening because I - I...”
– Woody Allen.
West Side Story
There are few things in life that make me happier than this musical. Seeing the school production live? Guaranteed happiness.
“I went out into the night,
I went out to find some light.
Kids are...”
– Arcade Fire. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out).
On Sonoma and Napa Valley, after too many hours in...
Claire: You know what this reminds me of?
Kelly: What?
Claire: That part in the Bible where Moses sends spies into Canaan and they bring back the huge clusters of grapes.
Kelly: Yeah! And everyone complains about how the Canaanites are giants and they're like grasshoppers and make Moses mad. Except Caleb and Joshua, who are like WE CAN DO IT and then they get to be in charge.
Claire: Yeah.
Kelly: We're Bible nerds.
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again...”
– Barack Obama
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
– Willa Cather
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“When we become what we were meant to be, we will set the world on fire.”
– Catherine of Siena