Are dreams heavier than broken hearts?

A mild start to a warming day in Okieland and more jetsam in Sol's day's mailbox. . .

If one wishes suffering not to happen

to people and the earth

it begins with a kind heart. – Pema Chödrön

Deserve your dreams. – Octovia Paz

Some of us are not meant to be specialists. When we try to 'make' ourselves commit to one thing and force our creativity into a daily routine of predictable productivity we quickly become bored and unmotivated. I don't believe 'just choosing' or 'buckling down' is the answer to this...that mostly seems to make lots of unhappy multi-passionate creatives...Sensitive creatives will find themselves feeling lost and unfulfilled when they are doing something they don't care about deeply, however much they might berate themselves or try to conform. – Elanor Chaney, online site “Creativity Matters.”

Everything that you think is solid is actually fleeting and ephemeral. – Joyce Carol Oates from a worthwhile interview this week in the NYTimes (link may insist on you signing up).

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts" – a quote from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and the inscription on the gravestone shared with his ex, according to Garrison Keillor. The master of some of the most iconic lines in crime mystery writing, was born on this date in 1888 Chicago.