Gakked from stonebender

Instructions:

Go to this page and refresh until you get some quotations that are meaningful to you, or mean something about you, or you agree with them, or whatever criteria you choose, I guess. Then post them.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.
William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)


Serene's addition:

Here are some that I think are bullshit. :-)

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

polyflock

Last call for polyflock in Redwood City.

If all goes as planned, stonebender and I will be there, likely with some subset of the rest of our family. Go sign up. Hurry!

(no subject)

I didn't even break the seal on my new writing journals. Nor did I read a page of the three writing books I took. And only a handful of the hundred people (no exaggeration) who asked for postcards got them.

All of which is to say that this trip didn't give me much time (and I didn't have much inclination) for writing, so this is the first time I've written about the experience short of the postcards and letters I did get around to sending.

The short version is that I am glad I went, and really glad to be home. The longer version feels like it may come out in trickles.

Some random things:

* Boy howdy, them Japanese folks sure do like their sweet red bean paste.

* Thank you, wild_irises -- was it you who told me to say "Sumimasen" a really lot?

* If I exhibit half the serenity and grace the participants did (eleven of them, aged 19-24, with various disabilities), I'm in good shape.

* Traveling is a pain in the ass no matter who you are or how able your body is.

* I love my bed. I mean, I love the people I share it with, too, but I so fucking love my fucking BED.