The sun and the moon and the...

Three things cannot be long hidden:  the sun, the moon and the truth. - Buddha

Truth has a way of coming out whether we want it to or not.  It was a difficult (often repeated) lesson growing up.  I was amazed at how my parents always were able to know when someone was lying.  They would sternly counsel my siblings and I when warning us that the worst thing we could do was lie to them; that it would destroy their trust in us.  So I did my best to be truthful.  It seemed easier to deal with the consequences of my actions and their irritation or anger at it, than to deal with their disappointment in me for lying about it.  Their disappointment lasted much longer and went deeper to my core. 

But I'm not just talking about truth simply as the opposite of lying and I don't believe Buddha meant for it to be limited to such a definition either.  Truth exists beyond Webster's dictionary (or dictionary.com for my younger readers).  Truth is like a seed that has been planted; it will grow.  It will break through the shell, shatter it to millions of pieces and stick one little root, then another and another until truth has enveloped the old shell and grown tall and strong. 

O-R-I-S-T-O-E-T & R-A-E-H

How I feel when playing Words with Friends with my Fox...

Whole Foods chocolate chip cookies are NOT dog food!

I repeat:  Whole Foods chocolate chip cookies are NOT dog food!!!

Note to self: If I buy any more cookies from Whole Foods, I need to eat them immediately!  No saving them for another time nor planning on sharing them with the Rockstar  and the Sage.  Because those sneaky, yappy, not-very-adorable-today canines of mine have once again managed to pull the cookies from the package out of my work satchel and EATEN THEM!!!  They are so sneaky; I never even noticed until I saw the empty cookie bag still in my satchel today!

Ugh!!

Hotter than a bucket of chicken grease!

One of my dearest girlfriends was at a restaurant while visiting friends of hers in Texas one time when out of the blue a stranger declared that she was hotter than a bucket of chicken grease (said with a proper Texas twang at that!). She naturally was flattered and laughs at being compared to chicken grease but she knows the intent was to pay her a compliment.

Well tonight something similar happened to me.

Quotes from one of my favorite authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I LOVE Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  I remember when a friend gave me a copy of Love in the Time of Cholera back in 1997, I couldn't put it down.  After that I read 100 Years of Solitude and enjoyed it just as much.  Below are a collection of quotes from Marquez' novels that I stole from the web site www.shortlist.com They did a nice job of gathering 30 of his greatest quotes... here are my favorites from that list.  (And now I have even more books I want to read!)

Memories Of My Melancholy Whores (2004)

"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had."