My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.
San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.
I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I
I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.