somehow made less money than i did last week training

the trouble with going to pages is finding all the shortcuts i made in the outline. table reads are magical! (thanks carla)

"just show up" in class! a most significant year yes. everything i have

Her son one day said, “You always tell me to do something I’m passionate about, but what if I’m not passionate about anything?” She responded, “If at every choice you come to in life, what job to take, what subject to major in, what city to live in, if at every fork in the road you take the option you care about more, the option that gets you excited and whets your curiosity … then you’ll come to the next fork in the road and you’ll take the option you care about more… then you’ll come to the next fork in the road and you’ll take the option you care about more … you’ll keep coming to these forks and keep taking the options you care about more, then one day, you’ll wake up and realize that you’re doing something you’re passionate about." http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-know-you-are-on-the-right-path-in-your-life

to humbly return what i have been given.

"we came from God, we'll return to God. everything in between is a lesson in surrendering to love. surrendering to it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. love is learning how to say yes to what is, that's all it is. it's not something sentimental - it has that on occasion, but it's mostly just trusting that what is is enough and is okay. yeah... as you know, it's hard to do though, because to fix what is, to change what is, to explain what is, say no to what is - all the other options are more attractive than saying yes to what is." -richard rohr, you made it weird

what's the other end of a balanced diet that includes cheese puffs?

i just recognized a street corner in "inside amy schumer" (crumbcake cafe!) that'll last me all week

the way (2010)

"for whom kindness is an instinct"

"oh, you know, the darker it is, the bigger the sales. that's what my editors will surely be asking for." "i understand." "you know, when i was an undergraduate at trinity college, dublin, i wanted to be w.b. yeats or james joyce. the good writers usually die broke, so after i left college, i wrote for travel mags. thought i'd do that for awhile, put some money away and then get down to the novel. 20 years later, here i am, still writing for travel magazines. i'm not feeling sorry for myself. it's the life i chose." "jack, you write whatever you want about all this: what you saw, how you felt. you write it like it happened. you write the truth." "i'll do my best."

I was a writer, I stopped writing, and now I'm writing again.

eating no worry beef curry as i wait

http://www.amazon.com/Meet-John-Smith/dp/B00GT34SAK/

remember the stranger in your midst

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. - Woody Allen