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MLK II

Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate.

Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that…. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

green sauce envy

Dear Internet:
Is there anywhere that I can buy Del Taco’s green sauce by the bottle?
As it is, I am scraping the change out of the corners of my purse so I can head to DT for lunch. I am considering ordering their world-famous bean & cheese burrito w/green sauce, with just a few minor modifications:

“Um, can I get that bean & cheese burrito without the cheese?”

“And can you hold the beans, too?”

“And while you’re at it, just skip the tortilla, ok?”

a rose is a rose


a rose is a rose I
Originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

As much as I want to deny it–showing my hard-edged academic, goal-oriented, not afraid to get my hands dirty in the garden, self–I am a hopeless romantic.

Like this week when I was at Trader Joes (ostensibly buying milk and bread), these pale pink roses just called out to me. I bought them, put them in a crystal vase and sat them on the table, just admiring them. Just having them there made me feel so good.

Then there’s our bedroom…John and I got this super-lovely canopy bed from a fellow freecycler. I quickly pulled out a piece of pale peach silk from (that I’d received from my friend Carole awhile back), sewed up a coverlet, and put it on the bed. I plumped up the pillows, and smoothed every wrinkle. Beautiful! Recently, John and I also hung some curtains from the canopy–creating our own romantic (and private) space. It’s like waking up at a B&B every morning!

The practical side of me says “roses…they’ll die, what a waste of money.” But the romantic side of me says “Roses…how beautiful…”

revolution

When C was little he often talked about setting New Year’s “revolutions.” At the time it was so cute, yet it always gave me pause. Do we really think that we can change our lives in some dramatic way merely because it is the beginning of a new calendar year?

For the past 3 years or so my only New Year’s resolution has been not to set any resolutions. I’m thinking of breaking the pattern this year and actually setting some goals.

What about you? Do you do resolutions? What do you resolve? Do you ever keep them?

change

It was time for a change…
–I added a randomizer so the description under my blog changes eaches time you visit/refresh
–I changed my flickr badge to a vertical photo list
–I removed the awful blog link in the sidebar
–and a few more details
Enjoy!

Make me frown…

1) Call me when I’m taking a nap unless you are going to give me money.
2) Make fun of my cats
3) Yell at your kids in the grocery store
4) Fill your grocery cart with junk food and then let your kids eat said junk food even before you’ve paid for it.
4) Drive a Hummer with a Bush sticker on the bumper slowly in front of me.
🙁