Midlife in Gretna Green

Don’t allow your brain to get old. You can’t do anything about the body–that will do what it wants–but you can keep your mind sharp.

Remember that guy who said, 'If you don’t like where you are, change it—you’re not a tree'?

I raised my head and glared at her. “Did you speak, or am I crazy?” “Well, of course I did, and you may be crazy. I couldn’t possibly comment. Some of the best people are, you know.

Off with their heads’ is sometimes the perfect solution. Use this opportunity to build a life that brings you joy. Remove from your life things that no longer serve your happiness. Dispose of old clothes, stale bread, dead flowers and most especially judgemental people – they’re not helping you to grow or glow.

Remove from your life things that no longer serve your happiness.

What did that meme say? Deal with the idiot in front of you, or the universe will send you the same idiot but magnified next time?

Just like all my questions, problems needed to take a number and wait patiently.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Deal with the idiot in front of you, or the universe will send you the same idiot but magnified next time?

Richard of York Gained Battles In Vain. It’s a rainbow!

This might be my life now, and other people had controlled me for far too long. I didn’t want his slow guidance. I wanted fast information and training.

We're all manipulated by the people we love.

reminded me of a time when I’d settled down to read a book, and thirty confusing pages into it, I realised I was reading the fifth in a series of fourteen books.

I read Let’s hear it for Pope Clement VIII, took a long sip, read it again and finally thought about turning the mug around. In the 16th Century, he baptised coffee, turning it from the devil’s drink into one fit for a God (or a Pope).