I can't completely put it together, but I do remember parts.

"I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal."
— Anne Lamott

Last night’s dream was interesting. I can’t completely put it together, but I do remember parts.

Crack in the ceiling- the irrational breaking through to the unconscious; the unexpected. The ceiling refers to ones protectiveness; the attitudes or beliefs you use to protect your identity; the height or range of your imagination; your mental limit or boundaries.

Swimming- seeing what goes on under the surface.

Soft ground (sinking ground)- may show greater inner change and growth that makes you feel uncertain of your “ground”.

Broken gate- A threshold, like that between waking awareness and your total experience—can also portray the passage through points of life, or level of maturity to another.

Horse- pleasurable energy and exuberance; the sort of enthusiasm or feelings of well-being that can “carry” one through the day easily; physical energy and life processes that carry us through growth.

I want to live in Maggie’s apartment in “Love and Other Drugs”.


"Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess"
— Haruki Murakami

Four Star Day- You have absolutely zero proof you can succeed in a certain realm. Yet you feel deep down in your being that you can and will do whatever it take to make it happen.


"Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness."
— Yann Martel

Make a little birdhouse in your soul.

The little things are important.

Who wakes up at 4am to go buy donuts? Me. I do.


"That night I kept thinking about Pandora's box. I wondered why someone would put a good thing as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnapping and murder. It was fortunate that it was there, though. If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear war and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics.
There must have been another box with all the good things in it, like sunshine and love and trees and all that. Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Maybe it was Worry. Even when everything seems fine and good, I worry that something will go wrong and change everything."
— Sharon Creech

Try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

I am so so so glad I got my tattoo today…I went to the tattoo parlor with only the intention of price checking/ seeing what they could put together. They had an opening….so I said ok. I’m very happy with the results, and it hurt FAR FAR less than the one on my rib cage, and it is only a little sore now. Good stuff.

“The Real L Word” has officially turned into porn this season.

"But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing."
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling.
Everything else will be measured against it."
— David Levithan (The Lover's Dictionary)

It‘s this crazy thing where people smile and laugh and are generally pleased. I could have sworn I saw you smile at least once.

I started my Book Journal today, FINALLY. Im also making a summer “To Read” list. So far it contains the following:
“Zoology” Ben Dolnick
“A Glass of Water” Jimmy Santiago Baca
“Burro Genius” Victor Villsenor
“The Madonna’s of Echo Park” Brando Skyhorse
“Sellevision” Augusten Burroughs
“London is the Best City in America” Laura Dave
Ok, that’s a good enough start. But I think I can finish 3 a week, depending on the length of the book and how much of a social life I have this summer.

"The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations."
— David Levithan (The Lover's Dictionary)