Inspiring Words

"It may also be that a woman's creative process is misunderstood or disrespected by those around her. It is up to her to inform them that when she has "that look" in her eyes, it does not mean she is a vacant lot waiting to be filled. It means she is balancing a big cardhouse of ideas on a single fingertip, and she is carefully connecting all the cards using tiny crystalline bones and a little spit, and if she can just get it all to the table without it falling down or flying apart, she can bring an image from the unseen world into being."
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

(from Susannah's blog)

So true

"Things were different fifty odd years ago, when the general public had a good knowledge of cooking...
It always amazes me how these days people can be totally up-to-speed and knowledgeable about so many different things--computers, music, fashion--but they don't give a toss about what they put in their mouths every day. If it's meat, they don't care where the animal has come from, how it's been reared or what it's been fed on. If you walk round your average supermarket, even though big efforts have been made, there are still lots of products riddled with additives, hydrogenated fats, and a whole catalogue of fillers--fake food."

~Jamie Oliver
from "Cooking with Jamie: My guide to Making You a Better Cook"

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

--Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968

From the film "Before Sunrise"

"I believe if there's any kind of God,
it wouldn't be in any of us.
Not you, or me...
but just this little space in between.

If there's any kind of magic in this world,
it must be in the attempt of understanding someone,
of sharing something.

I know, it‘s almost impossible to succeed, but...who cares, really?
The answer must be in the attempt."