I Fear The Boredom That Comes With

It’s Harder To Talk About, But What I Really, Really, Really Want For Christmas Is Just This: I Want To Be 5 Years Old Again For An Hour. I Want To Laugh A Lot And Cry A Lot. I Want To Be Picked Or Rocked To Sleep In Someone’s Arms, And Carried Up To Be Just One More Time. I Know What I Really Want For Christmas: I Want My Childhood Back. People Who Think Good Thoughts Give Good Gifts.

I Do Not Want To Know What You Will Hope For. I Want To Know What You Will Work For. I Do Not Want Your Sympathy For The Needs Of Humanity. I Want Your Muscle. As The Wagon Driver Said When They Came To A Long, Hard Hill: ‘them That’s Going On With Us, Get Out And Push. Them That Ain’t, Get Out Of The Way’.

Sirius, The Brightest Star In The Heavens.... My Grandfather Would Say We're Part Of Something Incredibly Wonderful - More Marvelous Than We Imagine. My Grandfather Would Say We Ought To Go Out And Look At It Once In A While So We Don't Lose Our Place In It.

Love Is A Fabric Which Never Fades, No Matter How Often It Is Washed In The Water Of Adversity And Grief.

Wisdom Was Not At The Top Of The Graduate-school Mountain, But There At The Sandpile At Sunday School.