True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

Imagine others complexly.