Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Musings
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.
- Frida Kahlo
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
- Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
Why My Roommate is the Best: Spooky Week Edition
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s officially Halloween week! Due to my back injury, I ended up needing to make a last minute change to my Halloween costume, and as always, Anna was up to help me with the challenge! I’m a little disappointed, it’s two years in a row injuries have prevented me from completing/becoming Poison […]
MoreIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
I am not a product of my circumstance. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen Covey
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The Mirror: an update on AnnaMai
I haven’t written consistently in awhile. Every time I sit to write, I am caught in a whirlwind of thoughts and feelings that yearn to make their way from my mind and onto the page. I write a few sentences and then highlight and delete. Nothing is good enough. Nothing truly reflects where my heart […]
MoreDrink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.