"Every event in the play happens as a result of other events in the play, but also every event happens because the poet wants it to happen." -Lewis, Miracles

Caffeine makes me sleepy.....

I am so sleepy! Actually, its a combination of sleepiness and a headache... I was just in at Prince Street and managed unexpectedly to be drawn into conversation with a 70-something retired trial lawyer. Why do I attract crazy? I really must look approachable, and I think that the fact that I listen encourages them. Ah, but insinuating that he was crazy probably isn't totally fair to him. He seemed intelligent, but when he found out that I was reading Miracles, by C.S. Lewis, he started posing questions to me which seemed less productive queries and instead more like excuses to start a fight. He was probably just lonely. I would have thought a lot more of him if he'd never mentioned December 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar. "Does man exist for God or does God exist for man?" What is the point of the question? What is the agenda of the questioner? Of what value to ponder this? I myself settled very quickly on an answer.

Things I Have Been Silent About - Quotes

"Other families talked, we wrote: what we felt or hoped for, our complaints - we wrote all of this, as if we could not bear to look into one another's eyes and just talk." -170

"She turned that man into a god; no man deserves that." -284

"Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others." -313