I never realizedtill nowhow hard the brain has to workto make the body do what it asks.Or maybe how hard the body has to workto ignorethe brain.

Or maybe I am justoutside enough, being the footstool observing from the corner, that I have a view of reality.

Not scared.But excited in thatjiggering-on-too-much-hot-saucekind of waythat it's time tostep outof my old framework, raw and amorphous, to become something I've never thought of before.

Then why don't I tell on him?If they don't, why don't I?Because.Because I am safe this way, silent unnoticed.

You've always been skinny, always will." I can feeleachreclusivebonepoke through, the bones of Embarrassment, Anger, Relief.I push some back in, but leaveAngersticking out.

Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it's horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing

I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worthless.

Seek knowledge, getting as much of it as you can and meditate on it, then you will become ahappy possessor of wisdom.

Don’t mistake:Kindness with weakness

But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. - Aurora

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning

You have to change those diapers every day. When those directions on the side of the Pampers box say, 'holds 6-12 pounds' they're not kidding!

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.