Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think Im crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.