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Doug has taught Michael to say "you're the guy behind the guy."
See, Doug and his posse of friends are swingers fanatics. At our wedding they walked down the aisle to one of the songs from the movie. I think I've seen it 50 times, once in Spanish because they insisted upon watching it Spanish. Thing is, no one speaks Spanish. It actually was pretty funny in Spanish.
Money, baby, money.
"If you are really honest about what you want out of life, life gives it to you."
End of Season 2, and I, am caught up. Not that I picked D or anything.
Legen-dary.
Don't worry, no spoilers.
My favorite quote in the whole movie:
"But why we feel what we feel isn't logical, it's emotional."
Ah, I've never been so good at emotions. Like Miranda, I can "argue both sides of any case." But sometimes, you feel what you feel, and you can't reason or logic your way out of it.
And if you are a SATC fan and haven't seen the movie yet, go, go, go! It was fabulous.
I just finished Emily Griffin's Love the One You're With, and it is fabulous. Honestly, I couldn't put it down. It's about being married, but never really getting over a former love. You know, that guy. The one you always wonder what if....what if you married him. It really echoes what I often say, love is a choice. This is fluffy chic lit, yes, but it's also heart wrenching, and very real.
"There are people and places and events that lead you to your final relationship, people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it-like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds."
"But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe, making that choice again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all."
"love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together."
"Love is love."
Kristin Davis, on Oprah, regarding Cynthia Nixon falling in love with a woman.
So true, so true.
I CANNOT wait for this this movie. I will go by myself the night it opens if no one wants to go with me.
Finally saw this tonight and love, love it! It made me cry, and movies never make me cry. Besides "honest to blog," this is the best quote ever:
In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
Thank you Doug, for being that person.
Yeah, it's been a while.
This one is also from a book. Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner. I loved Good in Bed, and this is a follow up, not really a sequel. Good in Bed was hysterical, and Certain Girls made me sob uncontrollably. Doug actually came over and told me to put the book down.
"Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going."
No quote today.
I went to a DC Metro Moms party and was convinced to Twitter!
So, want some quotes from me, follow me on Twitter.
So, I'm a day late for quote book Saturday.
But, you are getting a triple dose.
"In the space between yes and no, there's a lifeline. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."
Specifically because today is Easter:
"Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep that faith."
And why, from now on, I consider myself a Jewish agnostic:
"An aethists' got more in common with a Christian, since he believes you can know whether or not G-d exists-but where a Christian says absolutely, the atheist says absolutely not..." For agnostics "the jury's still out. Religion is intriguing, but in a historical sense. A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others."
I don't know if I believe in G-d. But in the end, I'm not sure it matters. We should be good to each other because we are all human beings, not so we can go to Heaven.
This weeks quotes come from a novel I just finished, Change of Heart by Jodi Pioult. Jodi Picoult is my favorite author, ever. I've read all her books. I've gone to her book signings. This one, I didn't love. But, anything by Jodi Picoult is better than most of the drivel out there.
In case those quotes sparked your interest, from Jodi's own website:
Shay Bourne - New Hampshire’s first death row prisoner in 69 years – has only one last request: to donate his heart post-execution to the sister of his victim, who is looking for a transplant. Bourne says it’s the only way he can redeem himself…but with lethal injection as his form of execution, this is medically impossible. Enter Father Michael Wright, a young local priest. Called in as Shay’s spiritual advisor, he knows redemption has nothing to do with organ donation – and plans to convince Bourne. But then Bourne begins to perform miracles at the prison that are witnessed by officers, fellow inmates, and even Father Michael – and the media begins to call him a messiah. Could an unkempt, bipolar, convicted murderer be a savior? It seems highly unlikely, to the priest. Until he realizes that the things Shay says may not come from the Bible…but are, verbatim, from a gospel that the early Christian church rejected two thousand years ago…and that is still considered heresy. Change Of Heart looks at the nature of organized religion and belief, and takes the reader behind the closely drawn curtains of America’s death penalty. Featuring the return of Ian Fletcher from Keeping Faith, it also asks whether religion and politics truly are separate in this country, or inextricably tangled. Does religion make us more tolerant, or less? Do we believe what we do because it’s right? Or because it’s too frightening to admit that we may not have the answers?
Impostermom asks, how about telling us about a memory from your youth? Good, bad, monumental, you pick.
32 Jewish teenagers, from all over America, spent a summer touring the concentration camps in Poland and visiting Israel. 32 Jewish teenagers, and I was one of them. When people ask me why my Jewish identity is so strong, even though I married a non-jew, it is because of that summer, the summer before my senior year of high school.
I stood in the courtyard of Auschwitz that Elie Weisel wrote so eloquently about. I saw the rooms of hair, shoes, and suitcases, some with my maiden name on it. I saw the wreckage of what was once Treblinka. I boarded a cattle car, and to this day, will swear, I heard a scream.
This trip was the defining moment of my life. It taught me that no matter where I am, where I live, who I marry, I am a Jew. A Jew first, everything else second.
It gave me one of my best friends. My best friend, who became a rabbi. Who performed my wedding ceremony, and presided over Michael's Bris. She is the only one who understands what that trip was like, and it changed us in ways both tangible and intangible.
I do not know what happened to the other 30 people on that trip. But I know no matter what, we all share a bond. No one else knows what it is like to stand in a bunker in Auschwitz and see a survivor who was housed there look at where she used to sleep. Who said she had to do this trip to come "full circle."
I've wanted to blog about this trip for a while. It's always in the back of my consciousness. But I wasn't sure how to make it relevant to this blog. It's really not.
But it is, because it will always be so much a part of who I am. My boss once find a correlation to that trip and my job. From that trip, I learned about disenfranchised populations. I learned that someone has to be looking out for the little guy.
I learned about my history. I came into my own.
"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"
-Rabbi Hillel
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