You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.

Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.

And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny. - "Timaeus" by Plato 427-347 B.C.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.