The Stone Diaries

Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.

Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates.

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

The real troubles in this world tend to settle on the misalignment between men and women.