January 2011
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“What do you fear, lady”? he asked. “A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars,...”
– The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (via quote-book)
Better Breathing On My Own - Majandra Delfino
Nursing a cough and exhausted, but filled with a sense of sleepy well-being. I am just so utterly grateful to be curled up in my warm bed and not have to move after being out since 8:30 am this morning. Physically, emotionally and even spiritually I put a lot in today, as has happened more and more frequently over the past year, but I’m so grateful for small things, like the ability to take...
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Quotidian
>Falling in love with Zadie Smith:
“It’s about time someone told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as once was supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was FROM somewhere. She had ROOTS…[and] before Clara was beautiful she was ugly” - White Teeth
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Life is Beautiful
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Day in the Life
Things done today:
DB article. Dramafever review. Mopping (kitchen floor). Cleaned out the refrigerator. Now off to dinner with the Ames and then back to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special with Adeline. Life is good. Even if I am slightly stressed about a hundred different things. Yet I know I’m super blessed with good friends.
There’s an art to living well. I’m trying to...