“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” ~Flannery “Funny” O’Connor
it’s so easy to feel joy when it’s sunny and so beautiful outside!
I think I can make it now, the pain is gone / All of the bad feelings have disappeared / Here is the rainbow I’ve been prayin’ for / It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) sunshiney day.
February, month of despair,
with a skewered heart in the centre.
I think dire thoughts, and lust for French fries
with a splash of vinegar.
Cat, enough of your greedy whining
and your small pink bumhole.
Off my face! You’re the life principle,
more or less, so get going
on a little optimism around here.
Get rid of death. Celebrate increase. Make it be spring.
~excerpt of “February,” by Margaret Atwood
Double, double toil and trouble / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. ~Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 10–11
Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops / Let the rain sing you a lullaby / The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk / The rain makes running pools in the gutter / The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night / And I love the rain. ~ Langston Hughes
I hope that you’ll remember / even when you’re feeling blue / that it’s you I like / It’s you yourself / It’s you I like.
“Cracked Open in Dunkin’ Donuts” — a Lori story
happiness / how’d you get to be happiness / how’d you get to find love, real love / love, love, love.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot / And auld lang syne!
ghosts of Christmas past
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
you’re part of the mud that gets to sit up, Lori! Don’t forget that.
oh, y’all. i love y’all.
thank you for helping me have such a wonderful birthday!
happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear me-ee, happy birthday to me! and many more…..
pork butt pork butt pork butt pork butt. pork butt.
beans, beans, the magical fruit. i’ll say no more.
put the lime in the coconut and you feel better / put the lime in the coconut drink ‘em both up / put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning (listening to this with Katie right now!)
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. — Louisa May Alcott
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” ~Lionel Hampton
just sitting in the quiet, feeling happy and grateful this morning for more things than i can say
“O strengthen me, enlighten me! / I faint in this obscurity, / Thou dewy dawn of memory.” (Ode to Memory, Alfred Lord Tennyson)
there’s very little as nice as knitting that’s working out as you hoped.
these are two of my favorite people in the whole wide world: Katie and Marnie, my girls.
blue skies, smiling at me / nothing but blue skies, do i see. / blue birds, singing a song / nothing but blue birds, all day long.
words to live by — not mine, they belong to other women….and the rest of us.
The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, best-sleep-you-ever-got-with-a-cold medicine
“I’ve had enough surprises, it’s better if I’m the one doing the surprising.” Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
You look very fetching in that outfit! And your mitts ain’t bad, either.
“Sickness shows us what we are.” ~Latin proverb. Apparently I’m a whiner.
you’ve got to be thankful for the tiniest things if you want to be regularly happy.
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