Running with Scissors

This plus the last 10 laps is all the racing I ever need to watch.

Notes: 1 5/29/11 — 4:12pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex5aAMZp

I’ve had this song stuck in my head for 2 weeks.

5/19/11 — 11:13am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex5G5Uzb

I am descended from country people who woke before sunrise and clambered out of bed and dressed in coveralls or print dresses that smelled of lye soap and took their porcelain chamber pot to the outhouse and emptied it and washed their faces in cold water from a steel basin and made porridge and cornbread for breakfast and after breakfast read a chapter of Scripture and said a prayer for their loved ones and the President of the United States and then went to work outdoors, sun or snow, raising cows, pigs, and chickens, and corn and hay.— Garrison Keillor

5/16/11 — 10:31pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex5Bhwej

This has been my life for the last year.

5/9/11 — 6:41pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex4_SCVF

“He had no especial desire to meet or to know any of these people; all he demanded was the right to look on and conjecture, to watch the pageant… He was now entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He felt now that his surroundings explained him. Nobody questioned the purple; he had only to wear it passively. He had only to glance down at his attire to reassure himself that here it would be impossible for anyone to humilate him.”— Willa Cather

Sloane Crosley has given me some perspective on going home today.

5/3/11 — 7:27pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex4qNGRx

Saint Jude, patron saint of the impossible and lost causes… and looking suspiciously like Jesus. He’s my person.

5/2/11 — 9:32pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex4oupFv

“The loving friends we meet on our journey return to us time after time. We never die because we were never really born.”— a really nerdy TV show I watch… but I like the sentiment

PRINT THIS POST WORDS: 4/30/11 — 9:10pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex4l9bQn

“Yeah, I could see how you’d panic and say toliet…” My god, I forget sometimes how obsessed I am with the idea of the Queen. Kate and William not so much.

4/26/11 — 2:34pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex4djr1Z

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.”— Holden Caulfield

4/21/11 — 6:45pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex4VB9Wd

1) Lovely holiday outfits by Meleah. The Easter outfits are especially nice…

2) Proof I have known Nick for 21 years…

3) Mess with me (or him), you mess with the whole trailer park.

4/20/11 — 8:05pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZTnnex4TYDLi