Rites of passage, plus eavesdropping
May. 25th, 2006 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantKidlet's out of town without me today for the first time ever. (Class trip to the state capitol.) I don't think I'm very worried about them, but it feels weirdly unmoored to know they're not in the same area code any more.
In other news, here's my latest collection of things read, seen, and overheard.
from an e-mail from Mom: "I handle stress better than I used to. (Sorry about your childhood.)"
Kidlet: "Sometimes I don't tell you about my nightmares, because I'm embarrassed to tell you about them, because a lot of them are about poop."
speak-o of the week: "a dime a dolphin."
"There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our understanding, we must do what we can with the third." -the Ramayana
"Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen." -Malcolm Gladwell, Blink (I want to use this concept in a Fraser story sometime)
"I had to read everything twice, first to see if it was a horse, then to determine if it had four legs, a head, and the other necessary parts." - Kate Wilhelm, Storyteller.
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all." -Voltaire, and more or less my philosophy of fanfiction
"Words ... pick up flavors and odors like butter in the refrigerator." -John Steinbeck
"I knew from long experience that there was no surer way of inhibiting sleep than to dally with plots at midnight." -- C.S. Forester
edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns
In other news, here's my latest collection of things read, seen, and overheard.
from an e-mail from Mom: "I handle stress better than I used to. (Sorry about your childhood.)"
Kidlet: "Sometimes I don't tell you about my nightmares, because I'm embarrassed to tell you about them, because a lot of them are about poop."
speak-o of the week: "a dime a dolphin."
"There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our understanding, we must do what we can with the third." -the Ramayana
"Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen." -Malcolm Gladwell, Blink (I want to use this concept in a Fraser story sometime)
"I had to read everything twice, first to see if it was a horse, then to determine if it had four legs, a head, and the other necessary parts." - Kate Wilhelm, Storyteller.
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all." -Voltaire, and more or less my philosophy of fanfiction
"Words ... pick up flavors and odors like butter in the refrigerator." -John Steinbeck
"I knew from long experience that there was no surer way of inhibiting sleep than to dally with plots at midnight." -- C.S. Forester
edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns