Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: quotes

  • On regret

    “The whole idea of being at peace just pisses her off. At peace. Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think that one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?” – Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins Regret…

  • On New Wave Music in the Eighties

    “If the singer is German, it’s new wave, unless it’s The Scorpions. If you think the singer is German, but he’s really not, then that’s an extraordinarily rarefied level of new wave, and probably means a kind of new-wave satori has been reached.” – Rob Sheffield in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran. I am so enjoying…

  • On Meditation

    “All told we were in there six hours. And no, i wasn’t meditating. I just stood there quietly breathing. There were no thoughts in my head whatsoever. I don’t know what these other crackpots were doing.” – Ron Swanson

  • a bizarre conversation

    “Two shoes as big as the United States walked up to my door. It was my father and he was an angelic being. He is here to protect the library. Isn’t that sweet.?” Yes. It is indeed. sweet. (ummm.)  

  • Dawn

    Dawn

    “To be awake is to be alive…We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake. Not by mechanical aids but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.” –Henry David Thoreau. Walden.