HELLLP!

I have become a pie fiend. I cannot stop eating pie! Especially cherry, strawberry-rhubarb, and peach pie! Every visit to the grocery store includes pie ... and I have just inhaled half of the strawberry-rhubarb pie that my husband brought home not a half-hour ago! WTF!

Is perimenopause like being pregnant in that you can get killer food cravings? ... or is it more like perma-PMS -- at least until the ovaries stop sluicing forth an egg every month?

How long will this go on? Until I blow up?

Ah, politics ...

... Human folly writ stupendously large ...

Sarah resigns ... Al is confirmed.

Happy, Wacky, Fourth of July!

Says it all: Michael Jackson

It turns out that nothing can compare to a mundane childhood. Missing out on the opportunity to grow up at a normal pace is something that one of the richest and most famous men in the world spent his life and fortune trying to get back. In our celebrity-obsessed culture, it is ordinary life that is extraordinary for the extraordinary who never got a chance to be ordinary.

(Michelle Haimoff, "A Eulogy for Michael Jackson's Childhood" ... via The Huffington Post)

... Did he ever have a real friend?

We're all in this together, Iran ...

Song: "Let the Earth Bear Witness", by Mike Scott of the Waterboys

(h/t to Andrew Sullivan for the video ... http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)

Please ... watch this video ... and then do whatever you can ...

... It brought me to tears. The numbers are staggering ... About 42 MILLION people have been displaced from their homes, their communities, their cultures ... their families.

42 million people. That's nearly 10 million more than the population of Canada, the country I live in.

Do what you can, no matter how seemingly small your gesture.

It could be any one of us; we're all in this together, no matter who and where we are.

For my husband, on the eve of the Summer Solstice ...

angels, joined

you & me

by Light

Art: The Love of Souls, by Jean Delville

Just when my spirits need a burst of fuel, I find ...

The fire of a wild white sun has eaten up the distance between hope and despair. Dance in this sun, you tepid idiot. Wake up and dance in the clarity of perfect contradiction.

~ Thomas Merton ~


Quote found at: http://diamondsintheskywithlucy.blogspot.com/

-- Check out Lucy's June 11, 2009 entry, "reminders".

Photo credit: NASA. Link: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980811.html