Graves – Garden State

Graves – Garden State

Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life ā€“ a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy…...
David Schrader – Pup Tent

David Schrader – Pup Tent

Charlie Brown: Iā€™m lonely. I feel that no one really cares about me. How can I cure this loneliness?Lucy: Get some friends! Five cents, please…ā€” Charles Schulz, Peanuts Crank up the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody. Set the dial to a church retreat, eons ago in the...
Ashtray Petting Zoo – Alma Mater Sweater

Ashtray Petting Zoo – Alma Mater Sweater

Etheline: Chas came home.Margot: What do you mean?Etheline: He and Ari and Uzi are going to stay with me for a little while.Margot: Why are they allowed to do that?…That night, Etheline found all of her children living together under the same roof for the first...
Sam and the Savages – Feel the Need

Sam and the Savages – Feel the Need

Eli: I’m not in love with you any more.Margot: I didn’t think you ever were.Eli: Let’s not make this harder than it already is.Margot: OK.Eli: OK what?Margot: OK, I’m not in love with you any more either.– from The Royal Tenenbaums What...
Saltlick – Day 16

Saltlick – Day 16

To have some suffering is very important. You learn from suffering, and against that background, you can recognize happiness. — Thich Nhat Hanh Suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning....