This Week…

“If you haven’t forgiven yourself for something, how can you forgive others?”
–Dolores Huerta

“When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by his privates, you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.”
–Deut. 25:11

“They promised us Game of Thrones and they gave us Game of the Folding Chairs”
–A colleague discussing a local drama on South African TV

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
–Aristotle

“Every convention will outlive its validity.”
–Njabulo S. Ndebele

“The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.”
–Njabulo S. Ndebele

“I went so numb on Christmas day
I couldn’t feel my hands or feet.”
–Joni Mitchell, Face Life

“Working on wings to fly.”
–Cindy Kallet

“Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.”
–Satya Narayan Goenka

“I was certain to find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.”
–Monique Truong, The Book of Salt