God is the Deliverer, but we never know how He might deliver us.
Hey there. ' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.
I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information. . . . my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.
If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.
I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material. '
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.
It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.