No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.
Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.
I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.
For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit. . . He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type. '