I also love Steel Magnolias--that movie is cannon as far as I'm concerned. In high school my friend Matty and I would sometimes just to turn to each other and go, "Drink the juice, Shelby. Drink. the juice." Just this morning I thought that if I had any tech skills at all I would meme up a Valentine's Day graphic from that scene and write: "Find someone who looks at you the way M'lynn looks at Shelby drinking the juice." :) Speedy recovery!
"I haven't seen my father in some time, but his face is always staring back at me. His heavy hands hang at the end of my arms." "I haven't heard my mother's voice in a while, but her words are always fallin out my mouth" Brandi Carlile
Dr. J, basketball legend. has been on my mind a lot - related to putting in the work and being aware of the fact that impressionable people are watching!
“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.”
Thank you for the peeks; I love your design and style!
Here are two I've seen on the web. I haven't verified the source or the original context, but I find them very powerful. Maybe they are in conversation with each other across the centuries?
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." (Albert Camus)
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." (Rumi)
I'm just sitting here trying to figure out how to enlarge all of the shots of your quotes pages so i can read them at my leisure (yes, I love quotes as well)
since all of my books are packed up for moving, I can't share my favorite quote from 'Hero' (an awesome YA fairytale by author Alethia Kontis) which is something about a real hero needing more than a magical sword and a good work ethic (when I find it, I'll share)
the song, 'Phoenix' has one of my favorite lines as well:
"are you gonna die today or make it out alive?"
and for my grand finale, Proverbs 31:8-9 (before they get to all of that "virtuous woman" stuff:
"Steel Magnolias" was a huge movie for me as well. I watched it (and cried over it) so many times, and just quoted the "cuppa cuppa cuppa" recipe to my husband the other day. But I haven't seen it in years. I feel like it would break me, now that I have adult children and my *illusions* of control over their lives and choices have totally disappeared.
Oooooh, fabulous, Jen - a peek into someone's journals is my FAVOURITE kind of post! I really enjoyed looking into yours. Oh, and I'm sending love for a quick recovery!
Well, Steel Magnolias - now you're asking. I watched it once (never again, sorry!) with my then-boyfriend at university, and was horrified at the scene in which Shelby was having a hypo. I've had Type 1 diabetes since I was eleven, and, well, anyway, I was watching wide-eyed, and said to my boyfriend 'gosh, I'm glad I'm not like that when I'm hypo.' 'No,' he replied, 'you're even WORSE.' 🙄🤣
I hate Steel Magnolias because as a person with diabetes, it still creates a stigma from some people that I hate. Back in the day it was true and sad that Shelby had little control over going into a seizure and needing to guzzle juice, or dying from pregnancy, but that doesn't have to be the case these days with technology and a low carb diet.
Quote is a verb and Quotation is a noun and I have an internal struggle with myself every time because I want to say QUOTES but then I force myself to write QUOTATIONS and then it feels pretentious and the moment is gone.
I have many favorites:
"The house doesn't fall when the bones are good."
"There are not the best of times, but they're the only times I'll ever know."
“Love the discipline you know and let it support you.” Marcus Aurelius
If a flower fails to bloom, do we try to fix the flower?
"We are as gods and might as well get good at it"
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." St. Augustine
"To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride." - Anthony Bourdain
I also love Steel Magnolias--that movie is cannon as far as I'm concerned. In high school my friend Matty and I would sometimes just to turn to each other and go, "Drink the juice, Shelby. Drink. the juice." Just this morning I thought that if I had any tech skills at all I would meme up a Valentine's Day graphic from that scene and write: "Find someone who looks at you the way M'lynn looks at Shelby drinking the juice." :) Speedy recovery!
"I haven't seen my father in some time, but his face is always staring back at me. His heavy hands hang at the end of my arms." "I haven't heard my mother's voice in a while, but her words are always fallin out my mouth" Brandi Carlile
One that runs through me often in these days of hyper-performance is: “I’m a human being, not a human doing.” Or some variation thereof.
Dr. J, basketball legend. has been on my mind a lot - related to putting in the work and being aware of the fact that impressionable people are watching!
“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.”
Julius Erving
Thank you for the peeks; I love your design and style!
Here are two I've seen on the web. I haven't verified the source or the original context, but I find them very powerful. Maybe they are in conversation with each other across the centuries?
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." (Albert Camus)
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." (Rumi)
I'm just sitting here trying to figure out how to enlarge all of the shots of your quotes pages so i can read them at my leisure (yes, I love quotes as well)
since all of my books are packed up for moving, I can't share my favorite quote from 'Hero' (an awesome YA fairytale by author Alethia Kontis) which is something about a real hero needing more than a magical sword and a good work ethic (when I find it, I'll share)
the song, 'Phoenix' has one of my favorite lines as well:
"are you gonna die today or make it out alive?"
and for my grand finale, Proverbs 31:8-9 (before they get to all of that "virtuous woman" stuff:
Open your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
"Steel Magnolias" was a huge movie for me as well. I watched it (and cried over it) so many times, and just quoted the "cuppa cuppa cuppa" recipe to my husband the other day. But I haven't seen it in years. I feel like it would break me, now that I have adult children and my *illusions* of control over their lives and choices have totally disappeared.
My comfort movie is WAITRESS...I've shockingly never seen Steel Magnolias. I'll remedy that situation next time I'm sick.
Oooooh, fabulous, Jen - a peek into someone's journals is my FAVOURITE kind of post! I really enjoyed looking into yours. Oh, and I'm sending love for a quick recovery!
Well, Steel Magnolias - now you're asking. I watched it once (never again, sorry!) with my then-boyfriend at university, and was horrified at the scene in which Shelby was having a hypo. I've had Type 1 diabetes since I was eleven, and, well, anyway, I was watching wide-eyed, and said to my boyfriend 'gosh, I'm glad I'm not like that when I'm hypo.' 'No,' he replied, 'you're even WORSE.' 🙄🤣
Thank you for linking to my post Jen. I hope you feel better soon. ❤️
Hope you're feeling better!
I hate Steel Magnolias because as a person with diabetes, it still creates a stigma from some people that I hate. Back in the day it was true and sad that Shelby had little control over going into a seizure and needing to guzzle juice, or dying from pregnancy, but that doesn't have to be the case these days with technology and a low carb diet.
Quote is a verb and Quotation is a noun and I have an internal struggle with myself every time because I want to say QUOTES but then I force myself to write QUOTATIONS and then it feels pretentious and the moment is gone.
I have many favorites:
"The house doesn't fall when the bones are good."
"There are not the best of times, but they're the only times I'll ever know."
“Love the discipline you know and let it support you.” Marcus Aurelius
If a flower fails to bloom, do we try to fix the flower?
"We are as gods and might as well get good at it"
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." St. Augustine
"To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride." - Anthony Bourdain