"Life is a mystery..."

"Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone, I hear you call my name, and it feels like home...just like a dream, you are not what you seem...."

(~ Madonna, "Like A Prayer")

"No power..."

"No power can withstand divine Love.'

(~ from 'Science & Health' by Mary Baker Eddy, p.224)

"I am the most beautiful ..."

"I am the most beautiful thing that no one has ever seen."

(~ ad for a candybar, seen downtown near CVS on Washington St.)

"I thought..."

"I thought she was a gopher, but she was not."

(~Eric Carlysle, October 4th, 1952)

"Wouldn't it be weird if..."

"Wouldn't it be weird if now when we died our lives flashed before our eyes all Photoshopped with a soundtrack?"

~me

"God it feels really good to..."

"God it feels really good to climb out of that box of peanuts."

(~Mouse 1 to Mouse 2, near the fridge on Tuesday)

"If I had a donut..."

"If I had a donut, I would probably give it to you, unless it was a lemon donut.
Because neither one of us really likes lemon donuts, so that would be kind of a crappy gift, right? Unless you threw it against a tree, which would make me laugh really hard."

"I always thought 'Amazing Grace'..."

"I always thought 'Amazing Grace' was a song about a blind woman who got to see and I didn't realize what the big deal was about, like why everyone was singing it all the time.

Then I was in this music class and these two girls that I had to write a song with wanted to use that as like the backbone, and when I was like, "WHY would we use a song about a blind woman for this?", they just looked at me for like a minute and then finally started laughing.

They tried to explain to me what it was about but I really didn't get it. But I also felt really kind of dumb for not being clued in on this whole church song that everyone seemed to get, so I thought about it in the back of my head for a few years and finally it seemed like it was about some sort of spiritual sense or something that people are capable of experiencing or receiving or something like that.

That made it a bit easier for me to get that song, and now I really like it and like thinking about this experience that can like transform anyone and anything, I guess kind of like me, huh?

But it really took me a long time to get past the material idea of just this woman just not needing reading glasses anymore and everyone singing about it in church."

(~Julia Marshcan, into my taperecorder, Spring, 1997)

"What is..."

"What is the color of Love?"

(~Written on the sidewalk near the dogpark; Jamaica Plain, MA.)

"I am laughing on the inside..."

"I am laughing on the inside while I wait for the train. Even though it is raining out currently, the air smells nice, the light is reasonable, and my ears are clear of complaints."

(~Twitter by Alicia Z. on September 16th, 2007)

"The direction in which we go..."

"The direction in which we go makes me sneeze when it is close,
cry when it is stagnant, and shiver when it is correct."

(~Samantha Courbin, Alaska Journey '07, Camp Wonderton, AK)

"I cannot wait..."

"I cannot wait, as you are here.
I cannot wait, because you're dear.
I can only wait because you're clear.

And then it is not really waiting, it is something else entirely."


(~from "Fruits and Such: A Tale Of Growth On The Vines", by John Candle-Movitz;
Wicker Press, 2002)

"We are currently crossing..."

"We are currently crossing The Impossible. Houston, can you hear me? "

(~Elizabeth Alexander-Cavendish during her expedition to the North Pole with her cat Houston; 1863.)

"When reason gives way..."

"When reason gives way to feeling, it is time to go for a very nice bike ride indeed."

(~ "Carl" on the T, on his way home from a grief stricken funeral; March, 2002.)

"I am at a loss for words..."

" I am at a loss for words",
said the banker to the thief,
" I thought you knew me,
but apparently I was wrong."

~ From "A Lion's Tale of Witchcraft and Brewery"; Osshin Press, 1972.

We cannot please each other...

"We cannot please each other when we know not what we do."

(~Alexei Sureygev, Foster Elementary School of Logistics and Culinary Research; 2002)

This is what we look like from outer space

"The way through is not always shorter..."

"The way through is not always shorter than the way around; the duration may be less, but the memory will last far longer.
Thus, we navigate the true depths of time not so much by calculating efficiency, but by reckoning thoroughly with the choices at hand."

~ S. Vanderweill the III
(Speech at Freedmont Towers; May 11th, 2004)

"Reason is as deftly answered..."

"Reason is as deftly answered as myth is created."

~Janice Eakstring
(Longperiod Fellow, Syngring Institute, NY)

"Ideologies may conflict..."

"Ideologies may conflict, but facts, they do occur."

~Sophie Sorcalle, Ph.D
(Director of Phinontology; Salime D'Or Institute; Copashire, India)

"...These things, they occur..."

"...These things, they occur; it is more a process of heat than transfusion. I think that if there were no heat, there would be no light. And heat is, of course, friction.

Light emanates from the discourse of our lives just as heat generates from interacting bodies. Yes, these things happen, they occur. There is really not so much we can do other than observe it.

And of course, calculate."

~ The Baroness Von Trulow
(October 31st, 1591; Stanswick Castle, Vincashire)