Sometimes we can't always attribute our favorite quotes

I think this is from a book titled Mob Girl, but I'm not sure:

"She was an overweight middle-aged woman in a muu muu on her way to city jail."

Important Reminders from Forgotten Sources

"Forget about your age.  Live your life."

Norman Vincent Peale 

Today Is My Father's Birthday

That should be the first line of a poem.  Maybe someday it will be.

Old Mother to Middle-Aged Daughter

Old Mother to Middle-Aged Daughter:    "Our journey is nearly over. 

        Carry me."

Middle-Aged Daughter to Old Mother:   "'Filial' means 'carry the father.'  

   There is no word 

   for what you want."

Semi Haiku: Hitting Eighty-five

Semi Haiku:  Hitting Eighty-five

You drive past yourself

wave goodbye.

Is there an age limit on this road?

Tie the Knot

Tie the Knot

"I often have the sense, when someone tells me anxiously about some knot they find themselves in, that what they perceive as an impossible and painful situation calling for professional intervention is simply the complexity of human life once again manifesting itself."  Thomas More, Care of the Soul

Once I went into a wonderful bead store in Arcata, California, where I bought  silver beads to combine with  black ceramic beads  in a necklace I had bought a few years previously in Oaxaca.  I took apart the old necklace, combined it with the new silver beads.  The necklace came together quickly, and I was pleased.  However,  I thought it would be bolder if I added a pendant.

That night, imagining the compliments I would receive and the pleasure in saying, "I made it," I tied a double knot in the cord and went to bed.  I vaguely remembered the girl at the bead store

saying, "Tie the knot, but leave a quarter inch tail and burn the ends.  That will secure the knot."

I didn't do that.  I didn't think it was necessary.

In the bead store the next day, I held up the necklace to show the girl what I wanted.  It fell apart.  Black and silver beads rattled and bounced everywhere.    The young woman felt terrible.  "It's not your fault, " I told her.  "I didn't tie the knot the way you told me to."

Now I would have to start over.  

What did I learn?  I thought I knew what was important and what wasn't.  Tying the knot in the right way was crucial.  I didn't understand that.  Now I do.