quote-of-the-day

Aaaand--one for the road.

"I knew a man in college who grew up in the inner city of Chicago & what he was doing in Iowa I never did figure out. But whenever he would see a jet trailing across the sky, he would stop everything he was doing & he would watch. Once, after a jet was gone & there was nothing left but the white line disappearing like a scar into the blue, he turned to me & said, An airplane is a miracle & I didn't give it much thought, but now & then, when I am ready to give up hope for human beings in general, & for one or two of them who are bugging me specifically, I will look to the sky & there will be one of those miracles & I will remember it's all about concentrating on the right thing."
--Brian Andreas

quote(s)-of-the-day

"Hasn't figured out quite yet that it's a problem that he's proud to be an American & that he keeps yelling at all those Mexicans standing by Menard's to get a job."

"Her umbrella was filled with rain she collected on her travels & on hot summer days she would open it up & it would smell of places we had never seen like Nairobi & Tasmania & we would sit on the porch till dusk & watch for tigers in the bushes."

--brian andreas

quote-of-the-day

"I don't think of it as working for world peace, he said. I think of it as just trying to get along in a really big strange family."
--Brian Andreas

quote-of-the-day

Since I've got quite a few days to make up for, I'll post a few:

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
--Nelson Mandela

"I moved a lot when I was young & I still ache a bit at the thought of all those autumns in new & unfamiliar landscapes."
--Brian Andreas

"In defense of my opening my soul and laying it bare to the public gaze in this fashion, I say that it seems to me that we really seldom do anybody much good excepting as we share the deepest experiences of our souls in this way. It is not the fashion to tell your inmost thoughts, but there are many wrong fashions, and concealment of the best of us is wrong. I disapprove of the usual practive of talking "small talk" whenever we meet, and holding a veil over our souls. If we are so impoverished that we have nothing to reveal but small talk, then we need to struggle for more richness of the soul. As for me, I am convinced that this spiritual pilgrimage which I am making is infinitely worthwhile, the most important thing I know of to talk about. And talk I shall while there is anybody to listen."
--Frank Laubach