A few of the many great lines from the Anne Lamott book I referenced in a previous post, do with them what you will:

“Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.”

“The world can’t give us peace. We can find it only in our hearts.”
“I hate that.” I said
“I know. but the good news is that by the same token, the world can’t take it away.”

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining”

And perhaps the one most perfectly suited to my particular brand of juxtaposed defect and sensitivity:

“You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it, too.”

Mmmmm hmmm.

Good conversation is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Word.

I had an ridonkulously beautiful evening sitting around with a few brilliant (and hot, of course) women last night, drinking and laughing and sharing and building great big plans. While I’m not going to share even a fraction of what we discussed, because I’m a dirty, filthy tease; I will provide you with some of the notes for your link love pleasure. Mostly because I just typed them up/emailed them and I’m lazy like that. A copy and paste blog entry is oh so much easier on six hours of sleep than coming up with something - oh - say - original? Plus, today is my Friday which means you should join me in spirit by surfing the net and not getting any work done. Not that I’ll be doing that.

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/ (previously blogged)
ICE Atlanta: http://www.ice-atlanta.com/
CitiKitty http://www.citikitty.com/
The Daily Coyote: http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/

Oh and PS - I’ve committed to doing the 2-day again, this time with company. Dates: September 20 & 21. Stand-by for fund raising harassment. Linkage: http://www.2daywalk.org/

Next time you see fresh pixels on this page, my almost non-existent, yet remarkably present azz will be in the land of the failed levy.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

John Naisbitt
American Author and Futurist

Heard on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me on NPR yesterday: “FedEx” when refering to Kevin Federline.

There are times when it is hard to believe in the future, when we are temporarily just not brave enough. When this happens, concentrate on the present. Cultivate le petit bonheur (the little happiness) until courage returns. Look forward to the beauty of the next moment, the next hour, the promise of a good meal, sleep, a book, a movie, the likelihood that tonight the stars will shine and tomorrow the sun will shine. Sink roots into the present until the strength grows to think about tomorrow.

Ardis Whitman

I heard this on TV last week, but due to the sheer volume of my idiot box intake, I can’t recall the show.

“Helping someone move is like oral sex - once you do it, they owe you for life.”

I’ve long been a believer that people should have to be licensed to procreate. My Darwin believing friends might disagree with adding a level of bureaucracy when we could just let them sort themselves out, but you know me, I’m a believer in the quick fix.

That said, I found this part of Augusten Burroughs book Magical Thinking:

But as a rule, gay guys do not make bad parents; they make excellent parents. Because unlike straight people, gay people can’t have kids by accident. Only by power of attorney.

Amen, brotha.