"If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete."

--Buddha

"The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are stronger at the broken places."

-Ernest Hemingway (committed suicide in 1961.)

"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you."

--Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."

Ecclesiastes 1:9, written by King Solomon around 935 BC

"Can we talk about how cute motorcycle gangs are?

--inseparable friends

--matching outfits

--going on adventures together

What wholesome adorable fun. Lucky ducks."

"The girl in my 3rd grade class that told everyone she was part horse and ate grass at recess is engaged and I have been ghosted 4 times in the last month. Much to think about."

I'm watching a movie that's supposed to be set 300 miles north of Anchorage, AK at Christmas. As someone who lived in Anchorage for four years, I can tell you that this movie very clearly was NOT filmed anywhere near Anchorage. The bright sunlight is the first giveaway--this time of year it never gets brighter than dusk. There's hardly any snow (hah! as if!), the roads are clear, it's a real little town made of bricks and old homes and buildings and tons of traffic (but the heroine had to take a small plane to get there).

It's December 15th and there's a million things I HAVE to do, many, many things I NEED to do, and nothing that I WANT to do.

Sigh.

I think I'll take a nap.

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My daughter had to work Thanksgiving Day in the ER. She had a bunch of people come in complaining of "abdominal pain." One lady even thought she was in labor. It turns out that, surprise, surprise, they had EATEN TOO MUCH and had tummy aches.

Happy Turkey Day! See you in the ER!

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I've been trying to write funny, with mixed results. But I found this great quote by Will Rogers: "Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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