Just Be Kind
"You're going to die, too! Someday. And how will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall."
~ Doctor Who
I Can't Explain Why We Live This Way
"Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
Love I try to follow."
~ Brett Dennen
The Past Alive
a game we played
so many times
I finally taught my sons,
not knowing what it was,
until too late, I’d done.
~ Patrick Phillips
More Mysterious
"When you penetrate a mystery, it doesn’t become less mysterious. It becomes, if anything, more mysterious."
~ Stephen Batchelor
Perpetual Self-Confrontation
"We live in perpetual self-confrontation between the external success and the internal value. And the tricky thing, I'd say, about these two sides of our nature is they work by different logics."
~ David Brooks
Why Not Get Started
I know, you never intended to be in this world.
But you're in it all the same.
So why not get started immediately.
~ Mary Oliver
Just Another Map
How many science classes
are required to convince a believer
the sun never rises or sets,
that thunderstorms don't have personalities?
What Words Will Others Choose?
Tomorrow we shall meet,
Death and I —
And he shall thrust his sword
Into one who is wide awake.
But in the meantime how grievous the memory
f hours frittered away.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld