Shel Silverstein

I woke up this morning ready to take on the day, innovate, and think outside the box - naysayers beware.

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.  Listen to the don'ts.  Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.  Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...Anything can happen, child.  Anything can be."

-Shel Silverstein

Calvin and Hobbes

Lately, I've been missing some of those important people I don't get to see nearly enough.  I've also been having some really bizarro dreams all week.  I think this captures both things going on in my head:

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.”

-Calvin and Hobbes

Pat Conroy

I read this passage a couple days ago in my current book.  Pat Conroy knows my part of the South better than most and reading this makes me remember why my home is so beautiful.

"I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of the tides more than
I loved the fury of the surf.  Something in me was congruent with this land, something affirmed when I witnessed the startled, piping rush of shrimp or the flash of starlight on the scales of mullet.  I could feel myself relax and change whenever I returned to the lowcountry and saw the vast green expanses of the marsh, feminine as lace, delicate as calligraphy.  The lowcountry had its own special ache and sting."

-Pat Conroy, Chapter 6, The Lords of Discipline

David Wroblewski

"Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, decending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents - the rest you let float by."

-Edgar, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski