Thoughts from the Post-Scriptum

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~Helen Keller

"I will be quiet, I swear, never open my mouth, nod obligingly, keep myself to myself for good and all. And yet, even as I swear it I know it's nonsense and impossible for me. I can't keep my mouth shut. I never could."

Margaret Laurence - "The Stone Angel"

something has changed within me, something is not the same. i'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game. too late for second guessing, too late to go back to sleep its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap.

it's time to try defying gravity. i think i'll try defying gravity, and you can't pull me down.

~alpheba "wicked"

The following is from the Washington Post Style Invitational contest that asked readers to submit "instructions" for something (anything), but written in the style of a famous person. The winning entry was The Hokey Pokey (as written by William Shakespeare).

O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.

~Jeff Brechlin

They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.
~Frida Kahlo

"Masculinity, or to be more precise, the traditional trappings of masculinity -- stalwart and stoic talk, an attraction to the rough and outdoorsy, a blunt demeanor -- are, to me and my kind, merely a handful of behavior patterns to be pulled out of the dress-up box, another form of drag."

~RM Vaughan

Odio excellentia affici melius est quam mediocritate amari - Better hated for being great than loved for being average.

“Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!”

~Author Unknown

"Fear is a habit, I am not afraid"

~Attributed to Aung San Suu Kyi

"To all actresses who have played actresses. To all women who act. To men who act and become women. To all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother."

~Pedro Almodovar

"I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean, a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face."

~holly golightly

"This is it! I am done! Don't call me ever again! Forget you know my number! In fact, forget you know my name!"

~Carrie Bradshaw