A Cougar's Counterpart

It seems as if I've met my match...

http://www.wildmanther.com/

best find of the day.

Geeking Out

I just finished re-reading this book for the third time and for anyone who hasn't read it yet, you really should. It's not all that long and the story and the language used to tell the story are both just ridiculously gorgeous. I know I'm a huge literature nerd, but this book really is fantastic.

Check it:

“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.”

“If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.”

"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."

"When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice."

"...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

How do you not just fall in love with that language?

I Hate It When Rodents Are Right...

I stupidly dismissed Puxsatawney Phil's predictions and now look what's happened: another freakin' snowstorm. You know it's gotten bad when you hear that the total accumulation will be about 3-5 inches and you think "oh, not too bad!". Sad. After the multiple feet of snow that have been dumped on Boston this winter, 3-5 inches looks like the first sign of spring. Thank God for Texas; I compulsively check Brownsville's weather to lull myself out of the anger and despair that come along with the snowflakes. In case you were wondering, it's currently 57 degrees with a high of 74. Sounds more like it.

Let this be a lesson to you all, never disregard the advice of a woodland creature; apparently, they're smarter than they look.