I was given the opportunity to pet and feed a sloth at a pet store in Florida, and now I am obsessed with them. That nose! Those sweet eyes! I should have just put his $5,500 self on my Visa and bought a plane ticket for him.
This is essentially the story of my life: "It was all very well to say 'drink me', 'but I'll look first,' said the wise little Alice, 'and see whether the bottle's marked 'poison' or not, 'for Alice had read several nice little stories about children that got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had given them, such as, that, if you get into the fire, it will burn you, and that, if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it generally bleeds, and she had never forgotten that, if you drink a bottle marked 'poison', it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." -Lewis Carroll*****"Mystery novelist Susan Conant has written, 'I feel the same spiritual comfort holding a leash that others feel holding a rosary.' I know exactly what she means . . . The feel of that leash is as grounding and vital to me as a glass of white wine used to feel, the dog as central to my sense of well-being in the world as a drink once was." -Caroline Knapp********"Midnight and big city skies shine bright on a small town girl who sings out loud for a brand new day, a brand new life in a brand new world--so dear bright eyes won't you say 'good night' to your lost love that you hold so tight and raise your fist as we smash the glass and shout it out loud 'here's to the past!'. . . I don't wanna be alone this time, another empty bottle by my side, and I don't think you wanna be alone tonight." -Ann Beretta*******"Jules, honey, you know what? This isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's Fire. The electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them because there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep going when things got tough . . . We're all going through this. It's our time on the edge." -Billy Hicks in St. Elmo's Fire*****
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