Tom Robbins sets us straight .......................

"So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free."

— Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins- still life with woodpecker-- my favorite Tom Robbins book

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free."

— Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)

 

My favorite- caitie the redheaded cowgirl

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."— Elbert Hubbard

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."— Elbert Hubbard
Ever so true-- there are those special people, girlfriends, who love you no matter what.... the ones you can call at three a.m., obsess about the smallest detail get into trouble with, get out of trouble with, make you cry, the ones you can call when the goat gets in the house and the ones that make you laugh until you pee your pants, the ones where you can years without talking and pick up at the same spot, the ones you call when the shite hits the fan and those you just want to have a giggle with, those are the friends that count.  The ones who you call when the dog is greeting the UPS man - with your underwear in their mouth, the ones who help celebrate your 29th birthday ; for the 7th time- the ones that hold the secrets that you don't even know about, the ones that make the memories, the ones that know your soul. Hold on to them. -- because they are rare and precious and love you just the way you are.
 smooches caitie