Quoting people

I like to quote people. Sometimes I hear or read something and it's a better expression of a feeling, thought, or experience I've had than I could put together. Thank God for other people, 'cause uh, I'd go crazy without them (you guys?)

Philosophy professor:
"This is a world of imperfect answers."

I just loved that because it was in relation to decision making. Being a staunch perfectionist myself, it rips my heart out debating two choices when neither are black or white. Imperfection is the norm in a marred world, however I won't give up my idealism. It's just something to come to peace with - imperfection.

Cathy Smith Bowers, North Carolina's poet laureate, read some of her poetry at a reception for Western Carolina University's Literary Festival. I was there for Fred Chappell, one of NC's previous laureates. Cathy was hilarious. One of her poems was about the way she used to write poems. This is a line out of one of her past poems where she would set everything in England in the 1800s:

"Where runs the girl after the woman's come?"

She thought that nothing was interesting about a poor family living in South Carolina.