Scarlett O’Hara, Gone With The Wind
My favorite literary heroine taps into why I loathe the vapid Barbie doll types who lack moxie, grey matter, and a heightened sense of self.
A gentle reminder borrowed from my friend Taylor’s Facebook page.
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Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.
Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue
Snow! And my old apartment building. Two things I miss about Kentucky.
Jogging path at Hermann Park in Houston. Freaking gorgeous.
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Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.
—Spoken by William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) in the movie “Meet Joe Black”
My junior year of college, I “wrote” this quote on the cinder block wall of my dorm room using hot glue and two inch tall black felt letters I had cut out by hand.
“And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig’s having lashed across it open.”
—except from “Birches” by Robert Frost
(Click photo to see more stunning nature photography by Martin Jurgeit.)
Me, circa 2008, on the steps leading up to Hull Manor (the Civil War era house-turned-apartment building I lived in when in Kentucky). Taken by my talented friend, Sara.
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You know, you remind me of a poem I can’t remember, and a song that may never have existed, and a place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to.
One of the most staggeringly romantic quotes from television history comes from the dentured mouth of Grandpa Simpson.
Ditto for store brand Tylenol P.M.
