Esthero in Progress

“In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery

“You see you wouldn’t ask why the rose that grew from concrete had damaged petals. On the contrary, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses –  this is the concrete – and these are my damaged petals. Don’t ask me why, [...]

“We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well
-for we will not fight to save what we do not love”

-Stephen Jay Gould

“Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are.

In the novel the writer’s thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.”

-Ambrose Bierce

He was a lovely man from Eritrea named Salem. He told me he spoke more than 7 languages – including the language of architecture – which yes, is a sort of language. He was the most interesting taxi driver i’ve met in a long time and he showed me his sketch book which was filled [...]

“all my friends have 9-5’s, like, they’re real adults and they know things about….stuff”

-franny (a.k.a. my extra awesome engineer)

“We are human and imperfect, and shit happens”

– As said to esthero by Nonja Mckenzie

thanks Nonja.