It Calls for Understanding

"It is what it is" = "I don't want to talk about what matters to you right now."

Imprints

We become what we do, as individuals and as a species.

Way Out: Way Home

The opposite of existential angst is found in the slight upward curve of the smile on a sleeping puppy.

Beauty, Eye of Beholder, All That

The true test of the quality of poetry
is whether it's still
any good
after the
breakup.

(Cringing she reads his.)
(Flummoxed she reads hers
then turns to a book on
neuroscience).

Take What You Need and Leave the Rest

The notion that "today is the first day of the rest of your life!" is nightmarish. What the hell was yesterday all about then?

Nothing Static

Whether one sees the glass as half empty or half full depends on whether it is in the process of being emptied or filled up.