"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
--Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (1905-1989)

:) Matt called me. I usually don't answer the phone, but I'm glad I picked up this time. I think it's the first time I've talked to him in a year or so. It was nice. Too bad we don't live closer so we could hang out sometimes. I miss his poems and talking about "our greeting card company."

Connections to people, ideas, and places keep me anchored in more ways than one. Sometimes I need to be anchored so I don't sink too deep. Someday it'll be so I don't go flying off too far to find my way back. I hope.

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
--Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

"I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood."
--Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)

I've tried repeatedly to leave the "quizmaster" community, but nothing happens. I wouldn't have joined, if I knew I couldn't leave it when I felt like it >:[ I like the some of the surveys and quizzes, but I don't want to see all of them everytime I try to read my friends' entries :P Poop.