Walking Shoes

"Thirty was so strange for me.
I've really had to come to terms
with the fact that I am now
a walking and talking adult."

-C.S. Lewis 

Turning Point

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year.
The morning of the first September was
crisp and golden as an apple.” 

-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Simplified Complexity

“We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity
of an organic being;
but on the hypothesis here advanced
this complexity is much increased.
Each living creature must be looked at
as a microcosm--a little universe,
formed of a host of self-propagating organisms,
inconceivably minute and as numerous
as the stars in heaven.”

-Charles Darwin

Proboscidea

"Never do anything by halves

if you want to get away with it.

Be outrageous.

Go the whole hog.

Make sure everything you do is

so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."

-Matilda, Roald Dahl

Elephant Pattern

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he's trying to run away,
it's best to let him run."

-Abraham Lincoln 

Heart Is Where The Home Is

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years
From 'Better Homes And Gardens' magazines.
Plans were drawn, concrete poured,
And nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to Mama's dream.

-Miranda Lambert
"The House That Built Me"

An Idea

"A man may die,
nations may rise and fall,
but an idea lives on."

-John F. Kennedy

Imperfection

“We look for medicine to be an orderly field
of knowledge and procedure. But it is not.
It is an imperfect science,
an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge,
uncertain information, fallible individuals,
and at the same time lives on the line.
There is science in what we do,
yes, but also habit, intuition,
and sometimes plain old guessing.
The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists.
And this gap complicates everything we do.” 
― Atul Gawande,
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on An Imperfect Science

Cramps

"Women on their period
always ovary act."

-Anonymous