“There is something infantile
in the presumption that somebody else
has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point…
The truly adult view, by contrast,
is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful
as we choose to make it.” ― Richard Dawkins,
This photo isn’t credited anywhere that I could find and I wish it was. Isn’t she stunning?
The only thing more beautiful than a woman sleeping, is a woman wide awake.
I feel a poem coming on. I need to go catch it before it runs away.
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“The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.” –Steve Martin
I can have a horrible week.
A heart breaking, nothing goes right, things break, family crisis, gut pulling kind of week.
A run away from home, lock myself in a cabin by the cove and play banjo for two days straight and question my sanity kind of week.
Then I walk into my banjo lesson and my instructor breaks down the songs, gets me laughing my butt off, reveals deeps secrets of the musical universe (Don’t force it. Don’t rush, you have all the time you need. Pay attention to the important things. Don’t forget to have fun.) and my soul is happy again because we’re playing a banjo and I can hear the melody.
A lot of us who do comedy for a living think we need a stage to help people feel better. That isn’t always the case. The day-to-day interactions we have with others can have a profound impact. He helped me remember that even with all its twangs, missed notes, thuds and buzzes, the melody of life can still be heard and that is a glorious thing.
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear” – Jack Canfield
Deana O'Hara - Speaker, Comedian, Writer 