Post 48: I am a mermaid!

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin

Post 47: Life

Home-less-ness, borrowed rooms and love, wanderlust and empty roads, toast to a new life & a tear for the old, in the end.. Cheers to Life!

Post 46: Memory

"Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .

flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,
decomposing 16mm film.
Happiness escapes
me there, where faces
are vague and yesterday
seems to come tied
up in ribbons of pain.

Happiness? I look for it intead
in today, where memory
is something I can still
touch, still rely on.
I find it in the smiles
of new friends, the hope
blossoming inside.

My happiest memories
have no place in the
past; they are those
I have yet to create."
— Ellen Hopkins (Impulse (Impulse, #1))

Post 45: Rincewind

"He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was boredom. The trouble was that boredom tended to explode in your face. Just when he thought he'd found it he'd be suddenly involved in what he supposed other people - thoughtless, feckless people - would call an adventure. And he'd be forced to visit many strange lands and meet exotic and colourful people, although not for very long because usually he'd be running. He'd seen the creation of the universe, although not from a good seat, and had visited Hell and the afterlife. He'd been captured, imprisoned, rescued, lost and marooned. Sometimes it had all happened on the same day."

Post 44: Everything happens for a reason

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." 

                                                                            — Marilyn Monroe

Post 43: Twice

Post 42: On being a traveler

"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." 

                                                                   — G.K. Chesterton

Post 41: What makes a summer!

“Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. Circumstances have not allowed me to make a good summer for myself this year…My summer has been overcast by my own heaviness of spirit. I have not had any adventures, and adventures are what make a summer.” 

-- Robertson Davies, “Three Worlds, Three Summers

Post 40: Living it up!

Post 38:A Moral Illumination

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” 

Elizabeth Hardwick

Post 37: You are Lucky!

Post 36: The Greatest Discovery

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

- Oprah Winfrey

Post 35: Rainy Streets

tell me lover, are you lonely? (clipped to polyvore.com)

Post 34: Finally August

"August is a time of love
Where emotions that have been harboring through june
Finally burst through the seams
Oblivious to the goodbyes
Lurking right beyond the bend
August is a time of forgotten promises
Of the mislead see you later
So often mumbled from lovers lips
- Meka Boyle"