“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.”

— Jack London

Tags: Jack London & notebook & paper & memory

“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”

— Joseph Joubert

Tags: David Weber & apologize & grief & honoring & memory

The only worthy faiths and beliefs are those freely chosen

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & word & meaning & thought & memory & contextual landmarks & language & approximation & reality & faith & Diety & Christian & Christianity & true & subtext & assumption

“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”

— Denis Diderot

Tags: mythology & folklore & werewolf & Red Riding Hood & Beauty and the Beast & blood & gore & violence & aroused & indulges & unwilling & people & character & shapeshifting & non-human & three bears & shapeshifter & without consequences & without cost & Mysterious & Unknown & memory & teenagers & beyond control & Stephen King & vampires & oral sex & power & uncontrollable & animal instinct & passion & arousing & fiction & question & astral sex & what form a dream may take & spirit shapes & picture

Gimme that old time religion.

Tags: companion & Lament & suicide & memory & love & stepdad & aunt & stepsibs & poor little me & lady god & Moon & mom & former lover