January 2010
16 posts
December 2009
11 posts
“As he gently caressed me his video game shouted out, “HOSTILE CONTACT!”
– One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.
“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen (via julie911) (via quote-book)
I found this quote many years ago. It remains one of my favorite. I have always found a couple of hours alone on a quiet beach (especially after a storm) letting the pounding surf drown out everything including my own thoughts to be restorative.
Botany
Leta: “Mom, my friend at school said that Christmas trees die.”
Me: “Well, some do. When you pull a plant or a tree out of the ground it will eventually die.”
Leta: “Is our tree going to die?”
Me: “No, we have an artificial tree.”
Leta: “A what?”
Me: “Artificial. It means our tree is fake. It’s not real.”
Leta:...