User Profile

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
~Henry Miller

We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold, by giving more to the brave bruised girl child within each of us... We can quiet her frenzy toward perfection and encourage her attentions towards fulfillment. Maybe then we will come to appreciate how much she has taught us, and how much she is doing to keep this world revolving towards a powerful future.
~Audre Lorde

But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
~American Beauty

You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this right of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it.
~Garden State

Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there's a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that's so.
~Angels in America

Trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go.
~Julia Butterfly Hill

One must always be prepared, should the times demand it, to grow up fast.
~C.D. Payne

I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
~Umberto Eco

I am living in the Berkshires, working at a charter school, getting a masters in special education and hanging out. Things are good. The seasons are beautiful here. You should visit.



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