Into the Woods...
...to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying...
Journal created:
on 7 April 2003 (#991725)
Updated:
on 14 June 2005
Name:
Laura
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands-- literally thousands-- of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most... *High Fidelity*
*Ani v'atah, n'shaneh et ha'olam: You and I can change the world.*
*Living by the hour, I stop for every flower.* ~Jets To Brazil~
*To live will be an awfully big adventure.* ~Peter Pan~
*Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living.* ~Mother Jones~
"An English professor wrote the words, 'Woman without her man is nothing,' on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.The men wrote: 'Woman, without her man, is nothing.' The women wrote: 'Woman! Without her, man is nothing.'"
*Ani v'atah, n'shaneh et ha'olam: You and I can change the world.*
*Living by the hour, I stop for every flower.* ~Jets To Brazil~
*To live will be an awfully big adventure.* ~Peter Pan~
*Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living.* ~Mother Jones~
"An English professor wrote the words, 'Woman without her man is nothing,' on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.The men wrote: 'Woman, without her man, is nothing.' The women wrote: 'Woman! Without her, man is nothing.'"
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