always with the same person

Dedicated to Dan & Julie, who are celebrating their 3-year wedding anniversary today and to Arik & Marissa, who just got engaged!

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

-Mignon McLaughlin

This above all:

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Hamlet Act 1, Scene iii
William Shakespeare

A man sees things differently...

A man sees things differently at different times in his life.

Big Fish

Landscape [Excerpt]

Every morning I walk like this around
the pond thinking: if the doors of my heart
ever close, I am as good as dead

Landscape [Excerpt]
Mary Oliver

i mean it.

I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Holden Caufield
The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger

two things that have no limit

There are two things that have no limit: femininity and the means to which it is used.

La Femme Nikita

Klimt - Hygeia

why not? - Kristi 219

The best approach I've heard on how to live one's life on a moment by moment basis...

"Sure, why not?"

- Kristi 219

a wise strategy for living?

Is this really a wise strategy for living? Insisting that most of life isn’t to be taken seriously. Relentlessly viewing it as a cosmic joke. Having only four guiding principles: one, do as little to harm others as possible; two, be there always for your friends; three, be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; four, grab all the fun you can. Put no stock in the opinions of anyone except those closest to you. Forget about leaving a mark on this world. Ignore the great issues of your time and thereby improve your digestion. Don’t dwell in the past. Don’t worry about the future. Live in the moment. Trust in the purpose of your existence and let meaning come to you instead of straining to discover it. When life throws a hard punch roll with it – but roll with laughter. Catch the wave, dude.

This is how Bobby lives, and he is the happiest and most well-balanced person I have ever known.

Fear Nothing
Dean Koontz

White Dog

I went for a walk on Hollywood Boulevard.
I looked down and there was a large white dog
walking beside me.
his pace was exactly the same as mine.
we stopped at traffic signals together.
a woman smiled at us.
he must have walked 8 blocks with me.
then I went into a grocery store and
when I came out he was gone.
or she was gone.
the wonderful white dog
with a trace of yellow in its fur.
the large blue eyes were gone.
the grinning mouth was gone.
the lolling tongue was gone.

things are so easily lost.
things just can't be kept forever.

I got the blues.
I got the blues.
that dog loved and
trusted me and
I let it walk away.

White Dog
Charles Bukowski