Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flowered languor,
April cold with sudden anger,
Ever changing, ever true —
I love April, I love you.
Ogden Nash
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread
winding its way through our political and cultural life,
nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that
“my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance,” Newsweek magazine 1980
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
Michael Faraday, Treasury of the Christian Faith, Stuber and Clark
There’s birth, there’s death,
and in between there’s maintenance.
Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog;
fewer when pursued by a mad woman;
only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies, Marchbanks’ Almanack
Something shines out,
a truth so self-evident that the words dictate themselves.
We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds
and blowing it on assorted bling.
Richard Powers, The Overstory
The eyes of the future are looking back at us
and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint,
that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come.
To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle.
Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats,
the silent space that says we live only by grace.
Wilderness lives by this same grace.
Wild mercy is in our hands.
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Pack Nothing.
Bring only your determination to serve
and your willingness to be free.
Don't wait for the bread to rise.
Take nourishment for the journey,
but eat standing, be ready
to move at a moment's notice.
Do not hesitate to leave
your old ways behind—
fear, silence, submission.
Only surrender to the need
of the time— to love
justice and walk humbly
with your God.
Do not take time to explain to the neighbors.
Tell only a few trusted friends and family members.
Then begin quickly,
before you have time to sink back
into the old slavery.
Set out in the dark.
I will send fire to warm and encourage you.
I will be with you in the fire
and I will be with you in the cloud.
You will learn to eat new food
and find refuge in new places.
I will give you dreams in the desert
to guide you safely home to that place
you have not yet seen.
The stories you tell one another around your fires
in the dark will make you strong and wise.
Outsiders will attack you,
and some who follow you,
and at times you will weary
and turn on each other
from fear and fatigue and
blind forgetfulness.
You have been preparing for this for hundreds of years.
I am sending you into the wilderness to make a way
and to learn my ways more deeply.
Those who fight you will teach you.
Those who fear you will strengthen you.
Those who follow you may forget you.
Only be faithful. This alone matters.
Some of you will die in the desert,
for the way is longer than anyone imagined.
Some of you will give birth.
Some will join other tribes along the way,
and some will simply stop and create
new families in a welcoming oasis.
Some of you will be so changed
by weathers and wanderings
that even your closest friends
will have to learn your features
as though for the first time.
Some of you will not change at all.
Some will be abandoned
by your dearest loves
and misunderstood by those
who have known you since birth
and feel abandoned by you.
Some will find new friendship
in unlikely faces, and old friends
as faithful and true as the pillar of God's flame.
Wear protection.
Your flesh will be torn
as you make a path
with your bodies
through sharp tangles.
Wear protection.
Others who follow may deride
or forget the fools who first bled
where thorns once were, carrying them
away in their own flesh.
Such urgency as you now bear
may embarrass your children
who will know little of these times.
Sing songs as you go,
and hold close together.
You may at times grow
confused and lose your way.
Continue to call each other
by the names I've given you,
to help remember who you are.
You will get where you are going
by remembering who you are.
Touch each other
and keep telling the stories
of old bondage and of how
I delivered you.
Tell you children lest they forget
and fall into danger— remind them
even they were not born in freedom
but under a bondage they no longer
remember, which is still with them, if unseen.
Or they were born in the open desert
where no signposts are.
Make maps as you go,
remembering the way back
from before you were born.
So long ago you fell
into slavery, slipped
into it unawares,
out of hunger and need.
You left your famished country
for freedom and food in a new land,
but you fell unconscious and passive,
and slavery overtook you as you fell
asleep in the ease of your life.
You no longer told stories of home
to remember who you were.
Do not let your children sleep
through the journey's hardship.
Keep them awake and walking
on their own feet so that you both
remain strong and on course.
So you will be only
the first of many waves
of deliverance on these
desert seas.
It is the first of many
beginnings— your Paschaltide.
Remain true to this mystery.
Pass on the whole story.
I spared you all
by calling you forth
from your chains.
Do not go back.
I am with you now
and I am waiting for you.
Alla Renee Bozarth
I sense the world might be more dreamlike,
metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe ―
but just as irrational as sympathetic magic
when looked at in a typically scientific way.
I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--
poetry in the broadest sense,
in the sense of a world filled with metaphor,
rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs ―
is how the world works.
The world isn't logical, it's a song.
David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries
Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
The great obstacle to discovering
the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean
was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers
Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain, in Mark Twain: A Biography, Albert Bigelow Paine
Whether happy or unhappy,
life is the only treasure man possesses.
Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life
Well -- well, the world must turn upon its axis,
And all of mankind turn with it, heads or tails,
And live and die, make love and pay our taxes...
From "Don Juan' by Lord Byron
Remember
that you have only one soul;
that you have only one death to die;
that you have only one life,
which is short and has to be lived by you alone;
and there is only one Glory, which is eternal.
If you do this,
there will be many things
about which you care nothing.
Saint Teresa of Ávila, The Complete works of Saint Teresa of Jesus Volume III
Too bad you weren’t here six months ago,
was a lament I heard on my visit to Nebraska.
You could have seen the astonishing spectacle
of the sandhill cranes, thousands of them
feeding and even dancing on the shores of the Platte River.
There was no point in pointing out
the impossibility of my being there then
because I happened to be somewhere else,
so I nodded and put on a look of mild disappointment
if only to be part of the commiseration.
It was the same look I remember wearing
about six months ago in Georgia
when I was told that I had just missed
the spectacular annual outburst of azaleas,
brilliant against the green backdrop of spring
and the same in Vermont six months before that
when I arrived shortly after
the magnificent foliage had gloriously peaked,
Mother Nature, as she is called,
having touched the hills with her many-colored brush,
a phenomenon that occurs, like the others,
around the same time every year when I am apparently off
in another state, stuck in a motel lobby
with the local paper and a styrofoam cup of coffee,
busily missing God knows what.
Billy Collins
From a list of humorous units of measurement on Wikipedia
Helen (beauty)
Helen of Troy (from the Iliad) is widely known as the face that launched a thousand ships.
Thus, 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship.
Other derived units such as the negative helen (the power to beach ships) have also been described.
Bee's dick
An Australian term for a very small distance, as in,
"He missed crashing into the truck by a bee’s dick."
It is derived from the presumed small size of a male bee's penis.
Lots more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
People are much more fascinated by your interests
than they are by your opinions.
Arlene Francis, That Certain Something: The Magic of Charm
Trust and integrity are precious resources,
easily squandered, hard to regain.
Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
People on horses look better than they are.
People in cars look worse than they are.
Marya Mannes, More in Anger
The march of human progress seemed mainly
a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
Helen Keller, The Simplest Way to be Happy
[About the organizing of the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.
E.D Nixon, civil rights leader and union organizer
Rufus A. Lewis, civil rights activist and politician
JoAnn Robinson, educator and civil rights activist
Fred Gray, civil rights attorney
The pastor is Martin Luther King Jr.]
They needed someone who could get Nixon and Lewis to work together, appeal to Black people from all parts of the city, present a respectable image to the press, and handle negotiations well. Robinson and Gray discussed selecting a preacher for the job. But which one?
“Well, Fred,” Robinson said, “my pastor hasn’t been here long. But one thing he can do, he can move people with his words.”
King: A Life, Jonathan Eig
To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring —
these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs, Leaf and Tendril
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself —
and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay.
Want more of everything ready-made.
Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery any more.
Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something they will call you.
When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute.
Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace the flag.
Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium.
Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion--put your ear close,
and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world.
Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable.
Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap.
Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions
of your mind, lose it.
Leave it as a sign to mark a false trail, the way you didn't go.
Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry
People see God every day.
They just don't recognize Him.
Pearl Bailey, in Black Pearls by Eric V. Copage
A life is like a garden.
Perfect moments can be had,
but not preserved, except in memory.
LLAP (Live long and prosper)
Leonard Nimoy's last tweet
Born March 26, 1931
Elwood P. Dowd in the movie Harvey
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing,
that when we look for what's best in the person
we happen to be with at the moment,
we're doing what God does;
so in appreciating our neighbor,
we're participating in something truly sacred.
Fred Rogers, 2001 Commencement Address, Middlebury College
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.
Robert Herrick
Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness
Curiosity = Wonder + Awe
Joy = Love - Fear
Event + Reaction = Outcome
Chip Conley, Emotional Equations
Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do.
You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
Carl Reiner, My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir
A lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.
Peter Ackroyd, English Music
I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper,
so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned
to bestow on me in the land of my captivity.
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him,
our way to repay him is to exalt him
and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.
The Confession of St. Patrick, translated by John Skinner
There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner
the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring.
Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
I believe very deeply in the human spirit
and I have a sense of awe about it
because I don't know how people carry on.
What makes the difference in people?
What is it?
I've known people that the world has thrown everything at
to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit.
And yet something about them retains a dignity.
They face life and don't ask quarters.
Horton Foote, The New York Times Magazine 1986
L. Ron Hubbard, Ability newsletter, March1966
Remember one thing about democracy.
We can have anything we want and at the same time,
we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Edward Albee, in Unleashing Intellectual Capital by Charles Ehin
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus;
it is a medium via which messages reach us
from another world that is not ours
and that brings us to the heart of a great secret.
Here magic begins...A film is a ribbon of dreams.
Orson Welles, in the documentary
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
I would like to watch a movie tonight
in which a stranger rides into town
or where someone embarks on a long journey,
a movie with the promise of danger,
danger visited upon the citizens of the town
by the stranger who rides in,
or the danger that will befall the person
on his or her long hazardous journey—
it hardly matters to me
so long as I am not in danger,
and not much danger lies in watching
a movie, you might as well agree.
I would prefer to watch this movie at home
than walk out in the cold to a theater
and stand on line for a ticket.
I want to watch it lying down
with the bed hitched up to the television
the way they'd hitch up a stagecoach
to a team of horses
so the movie could pull me along
the crooked, dusty road of its adventures.
I would stay out of harm's way
by identifying with the characters
like the bartender in the movie about the stranger
who rides into town,
the fellow who knows enough to duck
when a chair shatters the mirror over the bar.
Or the stationmaster
in the movie about the perilous journey,
the fellow who fishes a gold watch from his pocket,
helps a lady onto the train,
and hands up a heavy satchel
to the man with the mustache
and the dangerous eyes,
waving the all-clear to the engineer.
Then the train would pull out of the station
and the movie would continue without me.
And at the end of the day
I would hang up my oval hat on a hook
and take the shortcut home to my two dogs,
my faithful, amorous wife, and my children—
Molly, Lucinda, and Harold, Jr.
Billy Collins
And what is better than wisdom?
Woman.
And what is better than a good woman?
Nothing.
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep.
Just that, nothing more.
All the wealthy, unhappy people you’ve ever met take sleeping pills;
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
I like living.
I have sometimes been wildly despairing,
acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,
but through it all I still know quite certainly
that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
He is one of the most important figures in African-American history,
not for what he did for his own race but for what he did for all oppressed people everywhere.
He is a reminder that the African-American heritage is not only African but American
and it is a heritage that begins with the beginning of America.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait
March 5 is the anniversary of the death of Crispus Attucks,
the first person to die in the Boston Massacre
James Ellroy, Perfidia
The Bible is full of miracles,
and they have been accepted by thinking and unthinking individuals alike.
But the miracle which every one is permitted to experience some time in his life,
the miracle which demands no intervention, no intercessor, no supreme exertion of will,
the miracle which is open to the fool and the coward as well as the hero and the saint, is love.
Born of an instant, it lives eternally.
If energy is imperishable, how much more so is love!
Like energy, which is still a complete enigma, love is always there, always on tap.
Man has never created an ounce of energy, nor did he create love.
Love and energy have always been, always will be.
Perhaps in essence they are one and the same. Why not?
Perhaps this mysterious energy which is identified with the life of the universe,
which is God in action, as some one has said,
perhaps this secret, all-invasive force is but the manifestation of love.
Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion III: Nexus
Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past. It’s the record of what’s left on the record. It’s the plan of the positions taken, when we to stop the dance to note them down. It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it – a few stones, scraps of writing, scraps of cloth. It is no more “the past” than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey. It is the multiplication of the evidence of fallible and biased witnesses, combined with incomplete accounts of actions not fully understood by the people who performed them. It’s no more than the best we can do, and often it falls short of that.
Hilary Mantel, The Guardian
You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter.
Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.
Leon Uris, Writers on Writing
'The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on' —
and only then do you find out if it goosed you in passing.
Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham’s Freehold
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced,
not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious,
but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange,
touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
John D. MacDonald, A Deadly Shade of Gold
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. Lawrence, The Captain's Doll
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also,
he is always getting ready to live.
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
“God is love,” as Scripture says, and that means the revelation is in the relationship.
“God is love” means God is known devotionally, not dogmatically.
“God is love” does not clear up old mysteries; it discloses new mystery.
“God is love” is not a truth we can master; it is only one to which we can surrender.
Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr, Emmanuel sermon
John Keats
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem,
first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
2010 Twitter post, Notorious d.e.b. @debihope
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young
I love everything that's old —
old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
How did those priests ever get so serious
and preach all that
gloom?
I don't think God
tickled them
yet.
Beloved -- hurry.
St. Teresa of Avila, Love Poems from God
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Cyberspace is where the bank keeps your money.
William Gibson, 1995 New York Times interview
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night,
it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
I love thee’€”I love thee!
’Tis all that I can say;'€”
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day;
The very echo of my heart,
The blessing when I pray:
I love thee’€”I love thee!
Is all that I can say.
I love thee’€”I love thee!
Is ever on my tongue;
In all my proudest poesy
That chorus still is sung;
It is the verdict of my eyes,
Amidst the gay and young:
I love thee’€”I love thee!
A thousand maids among.
I love thee’€”I love thee!
Thy bright hazel glance,
The mellow lute upon those lips,
Whose tender tones entrance;
But most, dear heart of hearts, thy proofs
That still these words enhance,
I love thee’€”I love thee!
Whatever be thy chance.
Thomas Hood
Theology being the work of males,
original sin was traced to the female.
Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen
he will be good but
god knows When
Written by Abraham Lincoln as a teenager
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum,
an inherent part of our education?
Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility–
these are the very foundation of any real civilisation,
no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church,
but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.
Yehudi Menuhin, Compassion: The Ultimate Ethic
I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,
There are English counties like hunting-tunes
Played on the keys of a postboy’s horn,
But I will remember where I was born.
I will remember Carquinez Straits,
Little French Lick and Lundy’s Lane,
The Yankee ships and the Yankee dates
And the bullet-towns of Calamity Jane.
I will remember Skunktown Plain.
I will fall in love with a Salem tree
And a rawhide quirt from Santa Cruz,
I will get me a bottle of Boston sea
And a blue-gum nigger to sing me blues.
I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
Rue des Martyrs and Bleeding-Heart-Yard,
Senlis, Pisa, and Blindman’s Oast,
It is a magic ghost you guard
But I am sick for a newer ghost,
Harrisburg, Spartanburg, Painted Post.
Henry and John were never so
And Henry and John were always right?
Granted, but when it was time to go
And the tea and the laurels had stood all night,
Did they never watch for Nantucket Light?
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
Stephen Vincent Benet
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons,
as I would not want to live in a world without magic,
for that is a world without mystery,
and that is a world without faith.
R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
At the bottom of every social problem we will find a social wrong.
Henry George, Social Problems
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West, A Matter of Time
I think I exist,
therefore I exist.
I think.
David Gerrod, The Man Who Folded Himself
We all have the same God, we just serve him differently.
Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names,
but they all contain water.
So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth,
expressed in different ways forms and times.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew.
When you believe in God, you should believe
that all people are part of one family.
If you love God, you can’t love only some of his children.
Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey
254
"Hope" is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --
And sweetest -- in the Gale -- is heard --
And sore must be the storm --
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm --
I've heard it in the chillest land --
And on the strangest Sea --
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb -- of Me.
1547
Hope is a subtle Glutton --
He feeds upon the Fair --
And yet -- inspected closely
What Abstinence is there --
His is the Halcyon Table --
That never seats but One --
And whatsoever is consumed
The same amount remain --
Emily Dickinson
From the movie Groundhog Day
The most serious charge
which can be brought against New England
is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch, The Twelve Seasons
And when people ask me why I’m so healthy,
I say, “Plenty of red meat and gin!”
Julia Child, 1992 interview
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention —
but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
If you can’t stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit,
at least you can make fun of them while they’re hanging around.
Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
Who has not found the Heaven—below—
Will fail of it above—
God’s residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.
Emily Dickinson
