A Simple Kind of Life

Happy Birthday, Sailor.

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends

“Don’t wait for people to be kind. Show them how.”

12.5

I often think of the experiences and things I wish I could share with people. I just think they’re uninterested. but maybe that’s just the kind of soul I am, temporary and free.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson

There never was a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin