This Week…

“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

“Do we really want to go to Mars?”
–Cassandra Wilson

“Everybody seems to want to get away to someplace, get away from themselves. I got a feeling if they found that someplace, they’ll want to go some place else.”
–Cassandra Wilson, Right Here Right Now

“Did you ever love somebody? Did you ever really care? Did you ever need somebody, just to rub your hair?”
–Cassandra Wilson, Right Here, Right Now

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
–Philip Pullman

“Whoever did voodoo on my life can chill now, I learned my lesson.”
–anonymous graffiti

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘what are you doing for others?’”
–Dr. Martin Luther King

“You got a fast car. I want a ticket to anywhere, maybe we can make a deal.”
–Tracy Chapman, Fast Car