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Post by Phalon on Apr 19, 2012 6:22:10 GMT -6
I can soooo relate to this quote.
"The human mind, especially mine, if let, can be such a vagrant wanderer!" ~ Jean Heresy
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Post by Siren on Apr 20, 2012 22:59:30 GMT -6
Lol! Oh, we're a band of wandering vagrants!
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Post by stepper on Apr 21, 2012 17:45:51 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on May 1, 2012 6:16:00 GMT -6
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post by scamp on May 3, 2012 4:12:53 GMT -6
For Phalon cause I like teasing you...
"We must find the cause of this effect, or rather this defect, for this effect defective must have cause." – Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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Post by Phalon on May 4, 2012 4:15:41 GMT -6
Ah-ha!
I knew there must be a reason I've never read Shakespeare.
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Post by stepper on May 4, 2012 17:20:39 GMT -6
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle, 1854
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Post by Siren on May 8, 2012 13:02:36 GMT -6
I love that, Step. That's why it annoys me so much when humans are arrogant enough to have no regard for nature. That really, really ticks me off. +++++++++ This morning, I heard that children's author Maurice Sendak, who wrote and illustrated the classic, "Where The Wild Things Are", has died at the age of 83. I enjoyed listening to an NPR interview with him, recorded several years ago. You'll find a link for it, as well as a slideshow of his work, here: www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2006/sep/sendak/slideshow2/gallery.htmlIn the interview, he was asked if he felt he had gotten even with a hated uncle and other people when he used them as inspiration for monsters in the book. He said... "Of course not. But you know, being in a fury and not getting even is a lot of the energy that goes into work. You've got to have that energy. And, you know, you don't care where it comes from." I think it's interesting that he passed away in the middle of National Children's Book Week.
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Post by stepper on May 8, 2012 18:32:47 GMT -6
There's no denying the native indians were very much in tune with the natural world.
Never give up on anything or anybody. Miracles happen every day.
H. Jackson Brown
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Post by scamp on May 10, 2012 11:02:31 GMT -6
Ah-ha! I knew there must be a reason I've never read Shakespeare. Probably for the same reason I had teaching his stuff. I get papers with sentences like this in them: "I don't like Shakespeare because his work is full of cliches." scamp "If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" T.S. Eliot
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Post by stepper on May 13, 2012 11:04:30 GMT -6
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -Tenneva Jordan
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. -Peter De Vries
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -Jane Sellman
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. -Toni Morrison, Beloved
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. -George Washington
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Post by Phalon on May 17, 2012 6:18:39 GMT -6
Have you ever had someone tell you that they just read the best book - one they couldn't put down, and they insist you read it too because it's just so d@mned good that you'd be missing out on life if you didn't? So it was with "The Wildwater Walking Club" by Claire Cook – it's my boss's latest "must read". The book has been passed it around the office among the women; it's from Chick Lit genre. My turn came, and I read it.
It's like one of those movies that is a box-office smash, gets rave reviews, but when you finally see it, you walk out of the theater kind of disappointed because it was just "ok".
"The Wildwater Walking Club" (I think there is going to be, or is already a movie), is okay. The jokes I thought were cliche, the characters were typical for this type of story, and the plot is predictable. It was a nice, easy read, but nothing really memorable....
...except perhaps one line.
One of the women is helping another start a lavender garden. She says the trick to taking care of lavender is not to overlove it. Another responds,
"The trick to taking care of anything is not to overlove it.”
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Post by scamp on May 17, 2012 14:37:04 GMT -6
I was fortunate enough to meet Adrienne Rich and hear her recite her poetry a few times, hear her present papers at several conferences. Two of my favorite bits of her work:
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity… if our bodies are treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger… It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 17, 2012 7:16:34 GMT -6
"I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck." ~ Anne Boleyn (see 'What are you reading?' thread)
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Post by Siren on Jun 20, 2012 7:46:14 GMT -6
"And when I didn't know something, I'd ask someone who did. Which is what you do when you feel like you have the right to be wherever you are."
~fashion publicist and author Erica Kennedy, who died this week at age 42
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Post by Siren on Jun 27, 2012 19:15:34 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Jul 1, 2012 8:11:22 GMT -6
What a great article celebrating the accomplishments of the talented Nora Ephron. One sentence in the article made me curious and I had to drill: "As a playwright, she wrote "Imaginary Friends" and, with her sister Delia, 'Love, Loss, and What I Wore'."
I was confused, thinking Ephron wrote "Love, Loss, and What I Wore". I've got the book, and it's written by Ilene Beckerman (her sister's name is Blossom, a.k.a. Tootsie - no mention of Delia).
A duh by me. It was turned into a play based on Beckerman's book; the word "playwright" in the article sentence should have been a clue. The play is performed as a series of monologues by five women. That makes sense; I can't see any other way the book could be done as a play.
It's a strange little book describing in short paragraphs that often seem disjointed what the author wore during certain periods of her life. Each description is accompanied by a kind of crudely drawn illustration of the outfit.
When I first started reading the book, I didn't get it, thinking "WTF is this? It's so basic it's uninteresting." Then I starting seeing the subtle humor and sarcasm in it.
A typical paragraph (this one from page 56, of course) goes like this:
"My aunt Babbie (her real name was Pauline) had enormous breasts. She never got married."
I'd love to see the play someday.
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Post by Siren on Jul 5, 2012 22:01:27 GMT -6
Me too, Gams. To me, when you're reading her writing, it's like she's speaking to you. And her movie dialogue sounds authentic to me. That's not always the case. I hate it when movie characters don't talk the way real people do.
Weird coincidence: I picked an old "Reader's Digest" out of the recycling bin to read while eating lunch, and there was an article featuring an excerpt from Nora Ephron's "I'm Sorry About My Neck". How weird is that? The magazine is SIX years old, and I just happened to pick it up last week, the very week Nora died. Anyway, here's a paragraph from that book:
Reading is everything.
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. It's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is great. Reading is bliss.
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Post by Siren on Jul 11, 2012 19:32:26 GMT -6
"Home cooking is a catalyst that brings people together," she wrote in the forward to "Lost Recipes." "We are losing the daily ritual of sitting down around the table (without the intrusion of television), of having the opportunity to interact, to share our experiences and concerns, to listen to others." "Sitting down and eating together is a binding quality for a family. Eating on the run doesn't cover all the bases it should." ~Marion Cunningham, master cook, cookbook author, and champion of home cooking, who died today at age 90 ww2.cox.com/myconnection/oklahomacity/today/news/national/article.cox?articleId=D9VV0JP00&moduleType=apNews
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Post by Phalon on Jul 12, 2012 6:22:39 GMT -6
I love Nora's take on reading!
And how very true Marion Cunningham's views are about eating together. This summer, unfortunately, has turned into an eat on the run time for us except maybe on Sunday; I miss everyone sitting down for dinner together.
Here's a peculiar little saying I read on a gravestone yesterday at the cemetery:
"Finer than four split hairs on a frog."
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Post by Siren on Jul 13, 2012 7:27:23 GMT -6
Mama uses a variation on that - "Finer than frog's hair." But I dare say, splitting that hair four ways would be finer, FOR REAL for real (as my friend's daughter would say).
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Post by Phalon on Jul 15, 2012 6:54:58 GMT -6
That's it! Somewhere between reading it, and repeating it in my head so I wouldn't forget how it went as I rode home, I messed up the saying. It's supposed to be "Finer than a hair on a frog split four ways." Siren, when something really, really for real, the kids here have shortened the "for real, for real" assertion to "for reals". It's also used as a question of disbelief in place of 'you gotta be kidding me': "For Reals?"
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Post by Siren on Jul 19, 2012 22:18:51 GMT -6
LOL! I have heard "for reals" from my boss' daughter, who keeps me up to speed on some of the current teen lingo. But let me say I am sick - SICK - of people saying, "Really?", as in "Is this REALLY happening?" Yes, really. Grrrrrr...... Saw this collection of great quotes, including the Nora Ephron quote about reading: jezebel.com/5924764/10-life-lessons-from-10-incredible-women/gallery/1
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Post by scamp on Jul 19, 2012 23:45:38 GMT -6
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Post by stepper on Jul 23, 2012 21:28:14 GMT -6
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. John Milton
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Post by Siren on Jul 28, 2012 8:09:09 GMT -6
You are here to make the world a better place because you've lived.
~advice to actress Sissy Spacek from her mother, quoted in Sissy's book, "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life"
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Post by Phalon on Aug 1, 2012 5:48:36 GMT -6
Thanks for posting the link, Siren - it's a great collection.
"Mama? Mama? Mama?! What the hell?!!" ~ my neighbor's cockatiel, heard through the open window.
The people walking down the sidewalk looked quite aghast, wondering "what the hell" themselves. Hubs, sitting on our front porch, told them it was a bird. They nodded, as if that explained everything.
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Post by stepper on Aug 11, 2012 12:22:07 GMT -6
If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 11, 2012 20:59:21 GMT -6
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
Dutch - Predator.
;D
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Post by Siren on Aug 15, 2012 20:53:54 GMT -6
"Mama? Mama? Mama?! What the hell?!!" ~ my neighbor's cockatiel, heard through the open window. BOLL! That is awesome!
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