Quote from C.S. Lewis

“When Adma’s flesh and Adam’s bone
Sits at Cair Paravel in throne,
The evil time will be over and done.”
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Quote from Stephen King

“He turned the paper over to the blank side. He tapped the empty white space with the tip of the pencil, and then tapped Nick. He did it again. And again. And again. And finally Nick understood.

You are this blank page.

Nick began to cry.”
The Stand

Quote from Douglas Adams

“That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a blind spot.”
Life, the Universe, and Everything

Birthday Girl

I have mixed feelings about my birthday. Not in the “I’m getting older” way, but in the “it’s just another day” way. I think I stopped caring quite early on, and not for any particular reason that I can think of.
 
A friend and I share the same birthday. (The first year I knew him, I forgot that. It was quite embarrassing.) We’ve known each other since high school, and by our last year, I’d already started to just forget my own birthday was coming. As a result, he planned a birthday party, invited me, and called it mine too. He’s moved away now, and I just let my birthday pass.
 
This year, my co-workers took me out for lunch. We’ve sort of made that a department tradition, so I’m okay with it. My parents get me a few things, and I don’t think any force on Earth could dissuade them from that.
 
I’m trying to sort out what a birthday means to me. It has to be more that “hey, I’m still here!” Really, there’s more than that, isn’t there? Maybe it’s not about celebrating the continuation of the journey, but the start of it; a chance to see where you started, who you’ve been, and more, who you are now. I think I have to ponder that angle for a bit.

Listening: It Dreams by Jakalope

It Dreams
by Jakalope

Includes:

  • Feel It
  • Pretty Life
  • Nothing Nowhere
  • House of Ill Trepidation

( Click to read more at Amazon.ca )

Quote from Shirley Jackson

“The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent.”
The Haunting of Hill House

Quote from George Orwell

“The creatures looked from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Animal Farm