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“There is only one success – to be able to spend your
life in your own way.”

~Christopher Morley

“It is never too late to be what you could have been.”
- George Eliot

This weekend, we were talking about this and that and a friend told me that Malvina Reynolds was 47 when she decided to become a singer/songwriter and make music professionally. Her song, “Little Boxes,” opens up Weeds every week.

I’m 47 this year. I need to remember this, and the fact that at my age my mother had these adventures ahead of her:

-teaching in Iceland for a year
-teaching in Beijing for a year
-teaching in a southern China province for two months
-becoming an annual regular at a small beach hotel in Puerto Escondido
-trips to England (biking!), France, Greece, Portugal and Spain
-tandem skydiving (her 60th birthday)

“I needed a revelation but you know how it is. I would have settled for a nice surprise.” – Leif Enger in _So Brave Young and Handsome.

(I think I’m going to like this novel!)

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

~Richard Bach (b. 1936)

[my own photograph in celebration of the light in my front yard]

“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”
(photographer) Edward Steichen (1879-1973)

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell, English logician and philosopher (1872-1970)

My Feet will want to march to where you are sleeping, but I shall go on living. – Anthony Minghella, from Truly, Madly, Deeply

The movie quoted above was so helpful in my processing of my father’s death. I cried so hard.

The English Patient is a favorite film.

Love his choice of music for his films. I feel the loss of his view of the world, the many thought provoking films he would have brought us.

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.”
- Marianne Williamson

This is me quoting Bookish quoting Earle Birney.

Poet-tree

i fear that i shall never make
a poem slippier than a snake
or oozing with as fine a juice
as runs in girls or even spruce
no i wont make not now nor later
pnomes as luverlee as pertaters
trees is made by fauns or satyrs
but only taters make pertaters
& trees is grown by sun from sod
& so are the sods who need a god
but poettrees lack any clue
they just need me & maybe you

—

Earle Birney (1904-1995)

I keep this tucked into the back of my see-through cell phone case.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

[image from the Internet]