Did you ever read Love's Executioner?

"'Once I understood that I must wrestle with the real enemy--time, aging, death--then I came to realize that Mathilde is neither adversary or rescuer, but simply a fellow traveler trudging through the cycle of life.' Breuer says.  To see your partner in this deceptively simple way.  Yalom believes, is to open the door to meaning and happiness in a world without guarantees of either."

Irving Yalom, Love's Executioner 

Have You Read Antigone Lately?

 

Chorus:  Can't you see?/ If a man could wail his own dirge before he dies/ he'd never finish.

from Antigone

Psychic Distance

Psychic Distance

"All of us find comfort in seeing the world either from a great distance, at arm's length, or in close-up."

from Twyla Tharp's book on creativity

I (Heart) Mondays, really

I (Heart) Mondays, really

    Of course, to make the most of my Mondays, I must make sure the subsequent days are incremental disappointments.

I'm back, with an aching back...(Going Through Pain)

Going Through Pain

As if it were a town in Texas,

no way around that hell hole.

You have to go through it.

Of course you don't want to live there.

This metaphor is a dead end.

You don't leave Pain

a better person.

It's still you

if it didn''t kill you.

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