The Road Less Taken

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Martin Buber

No Day At the Beach

"I love women, they love me, fat and all, and my sister always said I would be one. I even gave it the good old college try. Not once, but twice. It would have been so easy if I could have been a lesbian. But no, I had to settle for heterosexuality, which, as some of you know, is no day at the beach." Camryn Manheim

This Is How I Run

"Nature does not hurry,
Yet everything
Is accomplished."
-Lao Tzu

Onwards

Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace. My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road!
Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flows and weariness follows, and the infinite ache.
~ from “Body of A Woman”, by Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, first published in Chile, 1924

Why I Blog

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it - Jean-Paul Sartre

Then Don't Work in a Hagwon

"There is no more obnoxious way to punish a man than to force him to perform acts which make no sense to him."

Simone de Beauvoir

Tend Your Thought Garden

“What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson