"If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph." Unknown

Distractions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeg-jT7MnEs

"Once a word is out of your mouth you can’t swallow it again."

Russian Proverb

walk interruptions

What I Heard

"I know that starting over is not what life's about, but my thoughts were so loud I couldn't hear my mouth." -Modest Mouse

Something To Keep Your Shit Together

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

Sylvia Plath

        

Musing

Resting flat on my back for five minutes...

"I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

T.V.

"I need your help buddy."

"How the hell do we not have sugar in this bakery?"

"Sometimes she doesn't handle situations well."

"We got no margin for error."

"She's my older sister, she's levelheaded and  I love her."

2:30 a.m. following Father's Day

I awoke to a young sounding woman screaming "You are the worst fucking father ever!" I was certain this person was in my living room. I woke up my roommate who proceeded to knock over her lamp onto her glass nightstand. She had no recollection of the noises in the morning. 

"Many a false step is made by standing still."

Unknown

The Title...

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)