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This photo, and how it still remains my parents' favorite photo of me as a child, as well as mine. The story is apparently that we had to wait in line forever to get a single photo thanks to some promotional deal at the photographer. By the time it was my turn, I was pissed off and didn't want to smile, no matter how much the poor guy tried to make me.
He snapped this and apologized to my mother profusely, saying that none of them really turned out and they probably weren't what she was looking for.
My mom took one look at this one and said, "Yup, that's her!"
Now it's in a frame in the house for all to see.
I've been a grumpy bear since day one, and I think it's hilarious.
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
Trust is knowing someone or something well enough to have a good idea of their motivations and character, for good or for ill. People often say trust when they mean faith.
Life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."
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