quotes

here are some that i’ve collected over the years:

“with all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” (max erhmann)

“one day, one night, i’ll dream a dream, perhaps like any other dream, except that i won’t know it is the last dream of my life.” (louise erdrich)

“i don’t want to pay the price for living too long with a single dream.” (unknown)

“all of them constructed at infinite cost to themselves these maginot lines against the enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way — if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.” (john knowles)<– bonus points to anyone who knows what this is from

“in the real world as in dreams; nothing is quite what is seems” (unknown)

“and when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” (william shakespeare)

“it is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” (f. scott fitzgerald)

“the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” (h.g. wells)

“i have loved the stars too well to be frightened of the night.” (unknown)

“you and me, we’ve made a separate peace.” (ernest hemmingway)

“so plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” (sherrie lovler)

“every day she shed tears, not from sadness, but because the world was a beautiful as life was short.” (unknown)

“even if we drink i don’t think we would kiss in the way that we did when the woman was only a girl.” (the cure)

“we scream in cathedrals why can’t it be beautiful?” (tori amos)

beyond the pale

Defined: Outside the bounds of morality, good behavior or judgment; unacceptable. The noun pale, from the Latin palum, meant “a stake for fences” or “a fence made from such stakes.” By extension it came to be used for an area confined by a fence and for any boundary, limit, or restriction, both of these meanings dating from the late 1300s. The pale referred to in the idiom is usually taken to mean the English Pale, the part of Ireland under English rule, and therefore, as perceived by its rulers, within the bounds of civilization.

The phrase itself comes later than that though. The first printed reference comes from 1657 in John Harington’s lyric poem, The History of Polindor and Flostella. In that work, the character Ortheris withdraws with his beloved to a country lodge for ‘quiet, calm and ease’, but later venture further - ‘Both Dove-like roved forth beyond the pale to planted Myrtle-walk’. Such recklessness rarely meets with a good end in 17th century verse and before long they are attacked by armed men with ‘many a dire killing thrust’.

The message is clearly, ‘if there is a pale, you should stay inside it’, but, really, what fun is that??

fall

it’s that time again — the changing of the seasons. for some reason, i always feel the most alive at this time of the year. each time i step outside i can’t help but stand still and take it all in: the leaves falling, the distinct chill in the air, the overwhelming signs of change… mother nature very hard at work.

i don’t know if i am inspired by what i see, but as autumn approaches i generally become very restless in my own life. it’s as if i need to shed the layers i’ve accumulated over the past months and start building myself again from the core. this particular autumn finds me looking for a home of my own and a shift in my career path. i find both of these things intensely exciting. the prospect of inventing another iteration of myself is overwhelmingly energizing.

i can hardly wait to see where this autumn will lead…