“If it’s one thing I can’t swallow, it’s ideas: they’re so hard to digest.”
from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, 1961
The Phantom Tollbooth:4
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The Phantom Tollbooth:3
“Milo tried very hard to understand all the things he’d been told, and all the things he’d seen, and, as he spoke, one curious thing still bothered him. “Why is it…that quite often even the things which are correct just don’t seem to be right?”
from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, 1961
The Phantom Tollbooth:2
“…from here that looks like a bucket of water…but from an ant’s point of view it’s a vast ocean, from an elephant’s just a cool drink, and to a fish, of course, it’s home. So, you see, the way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.”
from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, 1961
Flaws
flaws lend interest to perfect beauty
Forward
oh yes, it was a hot and stormy summer
of change and love and apprehension and excitement–
a hurricane of emotions,
lives tumbling forward
Friends
she was different then,
and he was different when
they were friends
i wonder
the years roll on,
one in front of the other,
and i wonder
if you still smoke those short cigarettes
and close your eyes gently with the first hit of dark spanish tobacco,
if you paint at an open sea-facing window,
if you drink your coffee sweet and midnight black,
if you ever,
do you ever,
let yourself remember…
What if
what if we looked at one another with peace
and with friendship
and with gratitude
and with empathy
and with kindness
what would the world look like then?
Good Day
the smell of the barn
the rakes on the wall
the bees in the grass
and the dogs in the field
made for a good day
Excerpt
“There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined…”
from The Hours by Michael Cunningham
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