On unemployment...

"This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today. "

Edith Bouvier Beale II

Unemployment makes me feel a little bit like the Edies.  

Okay. It's not that bad, but unemployment coupled with no washer and dryer...

It's a slippery slope, y'all.

Sentimental

“Fight hard, fight fair, and persevere.”

Edith Nourse Rogers, Longest-Serving Woman in the US Congress

"I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame."Leighton Meester, Harper's Bazaar

Alice came to a fork in the road."Which road do I take?" she asked.

"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.

"I don't know," Alice answered.

"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

?

Maggie Taylor, "It's always tea-time," 2006, archival pigment inkjet print

Caterpillar: Who are YOU?

Alice: This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. I -- I hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Maggie Taylor, "These strange adventures", 2006, archival pigment inkjet print

Ten Thoughts on Whole Living

I was just sorting through old magazines and I found this from body+soul magazine's March 2008 issue. I liked it.

Rather than muscle through your day,

 take a moment to breathe.

Personal growth is a winding path. Expect to revisit the same

issues --- and the same mistakes.

Empower your decisions and

 your self esteem by learning to say no.

Tune in to your sense of smell. It connects you to your emotions and your health.

Surrender isn't about giving up.

It's about letting go.

Listen to your body; it knows what it needs most.

Balance self-improvement with self-acceptance.

Invest in your work space. Inspiration and fresh ideas bloom in a positive atmosphere.

Use your vacation as an opportunity to engage your creative side.

Anger is a voice of the soul.

Express it, explore it, let it be heard. 

& taken yours

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something- a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person who you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours."Alan Bennett

every. single. moment.

"It's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life."American Beauty