Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-Jean Giraudoux (as quoted in ‘Things You’ll Learn if you Live Long Enough’)
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Rubber Bands
After months (years?) of braces, I finally have rubber bands to wear. Not that I was eager for them, I just thought it was funny that so many prongs were available and ready but not used. So at their first introduction, I now have six rubber bands to wear. My mouth has been trussed like a steer ready for branding or a pig ready for roasting.
Graduation Day
We celebrated our son’s high school graduation last week. God has been wonderfully faithful and good to our family. But, thrilled as I was to see this milestone come and go, it was a poignant reminder of the brevity of our lives and the waning role we will play in his.
No whistling allowed
One thing I miss is the ability to whistle.
The Mission of the Music
If you’re only worried about not making a mistake, then you will communicate nothing. You’ll have missed the point of making music, which is to make people feel something.
-Yo-Yo Ma
(Quoted by Jonah Lehrer in “Imagine; How Creativity Works”)
What kind of food are you craving?
As coworkers have seen me “enjoying” my liquid and mush diet, many have asked what food I most pine for. It’s really not a single food that I crave. It’s more the sensation I yearn for. I long to plunge my incisors into some substantial, hand-held entrée, rend off a dripping, intemperate hunk, and chew with unconscious abandon. Burrito, pizza, chicken leg, sub sandwich, even just crusty bread. I don’t care, as long as I can eat without the move-by-move self-consciousness I’ve had to exercise during this process.