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February 19th, 2013
Fairy pools on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Highclere Castle - Downton Abbey
February 18th, 2013
every kid adult should have a trapeze in their living room
I was transporting Susie The Dog across town, when this man walked up and started admiring her. It quickly became apparent that he really, really loved dogs. “I’ve trained them all my life,” he explained. Soon he was getting emotional. “All you do is feed them,” he said, “and they love you so much for it. I still cry for my first dog. She would not eat unless I was eating. I once had a fever for three weeks, and she would not eat because I couldn’t eat.” He started to tear up a bit. “She ended up getting stolen,” he said. “When you lose a dog, it’s just as bad as losing a human. They may be less intelligent but the emotional connection is the same.”
You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. ‘Floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory.
Toni Morrison is 82 today
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