Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Jan 16, 2020 07:21 PM

“I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
― Bill Watterson

**Magical Realist** · Jan 16, 2020 09:10 PM

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**Magical Realist** · Jan 17, 2020 04:12 PM

“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
― Bill Hicks

**Magical Realist** · Jan 17, 2020 06:23 PM

"I just want to live in a world of mountains, coffee, campfires, cabins, and golden trees, and run around with a camera and notebook, learning the inner workings of everything real." - Victoria Erickson

**Magical Realist** · Jan 17, 2020 07:48 PM

“Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.”
― Dan Sofer, A Love and Beyond

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 18, 2020 08:24 PM by Magical Realist.)

“There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.”
― Emily Dickinson

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jan 18, 2020 11:51 PM by Magical Realist.)

"What if I told you that if you simply mix starlight, solitude, silence and softness, you may just learn everything you've ever needed to know about everything you hadn't known?”
― Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder: Notes from the Wildness of Being

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**Magical Realist** · Jan 19, 2020 06:52 PM

“You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.”
― Anne Lamott

**Magical Realist** · Jan 20, 2020 06:54 PM

“To be fully human is to be wild. Wild is the strange pull and whispering wisdom. It’s the gentle nudge and the forceful ache. It is your truth, passed down from the ancients, and the very stream of life in your blood. Wild is the soul where passion and creativity reside, and the quickening of your heart. Wild is what is real, and wild is your home.”
― Victoria Erickson

**Magical Realist** · Jan 23, 2020 09:18 PM

“Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?