C called Wacky Sister over the weekend — they’re hanging in. We went to see the Sprinkler, Crackerbash, Pond & Hazel reunion show on Saturday, me, Wacky Sister, and her friend C. Too loud, too fun. I (heart) Sean Croghan. I (heart) both the Croghan brothers. Don’t tell anyone it’s a secret.

C, if you’re reading this, we saw Sean’s brother Paul and told him you’re fine. He was glad and sends you a hello.

and now, the quote of the day: “Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

— Flannery O’Connor, writer (1925-1964)

“Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

–E.L. Doctorow, writer (1931- )

“Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.”

(“A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.”)

“Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.”

— Amelia Earhart, aviator (1897-1937)

“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.”

-Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

“I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.”

–Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.”

— Beverly Nichols, author

You heard of “elimination communication?” It’s raising babies without diapers, aka “nappies” in the U.K.

Wacky Mommy is in favor of diapering. Bring on the Huggies…

Sweet jeebus, help us all. Not all progress is bad. More later…

WM

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writers’ workshop was great. now i need a cuppa coffee.

WM

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“The giraffe you thought you offended last week is willing to be nuzzled today.”

— Anonymous