"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." ~ Ingrid Bergman

"Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases." ~ Chinese proverb

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing." ~ Anais Nin

So most people around me know I have been looking for a job. I have decided while I am looking I could still make money doing other stuff. So I am taking sewing and weaving commissions. Know of anyone who needs any? Send them my way.

"Too often we have taken the magic, mystery, and power of the erotic spell for granted. Fucking, the source of life and perhaps its most complete activity, is also our most comprehensive metaphor. Erotic energy is very pure, very fine, and comparable to the energy one develops while doing zazen or other meditational practices. In the act of fucking we pierce one another’s flesh with flesh, breathe one another’s breath, drink one another’s fluids, swim in one another’s souls, communing telepathically on all levels, tossed upon the same billowing waves of cosmic creation and thrust into the same intergalactic calms, speaking, weeping, smiling, listening to the cries and sighs of ecstasy which punctuate the profound silence of the erotic mood. It is unquestioningly grand, a gift from the gods as well as a legacy from the animals. The major insight of the promiscuate, paradoxically, is that there is no such thing as a casual fuck."
... Marco Vassi

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin