Since I am way too tired to post tonight, I leave you with some of my favorite thoughts ... Thought by other people.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~ Gilda Radner

Anger stirs and wakes in her; it opens its mouth, and like a hot-mouthed puppy,laps up the dredges of her shame. Anger is better. There is a snese of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth.
~ Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)

The site of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. ~ Rachel Field, All This and Heaven Too (1939)

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both. ~ Christina Bladwin, lecture (1991)

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ~ Joan Didion, The Writer on Her Work