You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person–someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”
Andrew Boyd
Daily Afflictions Feb 2008
Archive for May, 2008
that crazy feeling
The more we choose to spend our time conversing with people who are interested, or worried, about exactly the same things that we are, in relatively tiny, but globally dispersed communities, the more we feel the rest of the world is just plain crazy.
Demetrie Tyler
This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself
This is the first sentence of this story. This is the second sentence. This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself. This sentence is questioning the intrinsic value of the first two sentences. This sentence is to inform you, in case you haven’t already realized it, that this is a self-referential story, that is, a story containing sentences that refer to their own structure and function. This is a sentence that provides an ending to the first paragraph.
The thought floated [in his] mind, without sail or ballast to it, as a simple proposition; millions of which … are every day swimming quietly in the thin juice of a man’s understanding, without being carried backwards or forwards, till some little gusts if passion or interest drive them to one side.
Lawrence Sterne
Tristram Shandy (1768) Vol. III, Chap. IX
I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty—and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they’re enough.
Anne Lamott
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts in Faith (1999) 103
