Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.
We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.