I have recently learned that there is almost nothing "You've Got Mail" and a Roxberry won't fix (except for some terminal diseases...I'm working on that. Please hold).

(took these on a bike ride last night because summer is fading away and I feel the need to document these things)

This week has been one for the history books. Actually, this whole past month. I kind of thrust myself into a whole new world. Lots of changes all at once. It's painful, man. It hurts to grow and spread those wings. I told you I was going to break some bones when I crashed...and break them I did.

But that doesn't mean good things aren't ahead. 

Now I shall leave you with some words which better explain my feelings at the present moment. Over and out, homeskillets. I'll be back later with more riveting tales from Provorem. 

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Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. 

—  Rumi

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

— A. A. Milne

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‘It is finished.’ May those words land on your bones for the nights when fear tells you the cross was a beginning & you must finish grace.

— Jon Acuff 

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Oh, eager heart… you need to learn when to shut up, you need to shut up.

— Angie Serazzi 

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It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I would shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,
I skin my knees. I bleed.

— Billy Collins, from “On Turning Ten” 

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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close  

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In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.

— C.S. Lewis 

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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

— ursula k. le guin / the dispossessed

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You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank.

— Pablo Neruda 

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I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘Don’t leave me here alone.’

— Neil Gaiman 

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I know it’s over, and it never really began, but in my heart it was so real.

— The Smiths 

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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She realized, anything could happen. Literally. So humbly beautiful, how amazingly frightening.

— Nicole Davenport  

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

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Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.

— Emily Dickinson 

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We all have our scars,
From loving someone too deeply.
From wanting to protect someone too much.

— Tachibana Mei (Sukitte Ii Na Yo)

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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

— Clementine Paddleford

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I am yours.
Don’t give myself back to me.

— Rumi 

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How do you go on when, in your heart, you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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      I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

— Anaïs Nin, Fire  

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I wish to hold you; then drink stardust and say permanently ‘farewell’.

— John Keats, Letters Of John Keats 

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

— Joan Crawford

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It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

— Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street 

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Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 

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Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

— A.M. Royden 

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You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms.

— Anna Akhmatova

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When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

— Eckhart Tolle

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To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go

— Mary Oliver