Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible. . . he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.
An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.
Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.
We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.