if it’s true…

When you’re arguing for an unpopular idea, there are three stages of truth: first, your opponents say it can’t be true. Next they say if it’s true, it can’t be very important. Finally they say well, we’ve known it all along.

jonas salk

a single word…

In regards to your question, what might your options be?

wanderer

passing through…

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy.

marilynne robinson

loss and magic…

There’s a bit of magic in everything and then some loss to even things out.

lou reed

galactic insights…


Galactic insights tend to be greeted by head-scratching and puzzlement in
their early stages.

phil sedgwick

remember…

If plan ‘A’ fails, remember you have 25 letters left.

chris guillebeau

the past…

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do – the only thing – is run.

lauren oliver

verses…

Writing down verses, I got a paper cut on my palm. The cut extended my life line by nearly one-fourth.

vera pavlova

clouds…

That would be the way to go: straight up on a cloud, the crowd below craning
their necks as you disappeared out of view and then the wondering: which cloud overhead was under you.

joyce stuphen, assumption

clock a face…

What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four stout legs which will never suffer fatigue.

lisel meuller