Best. Comment. Ever.

Completely fivenines!

Good stuff, Kate.

This piece is a mountain and the stream flowing down it, too. You've cracked something open with this longing. Colin Wilson said that sometimes when we are within sight of a river, we experience a longing that no amount of drinking, bare-foot submersion, or swimming will satisfy. He was right. Your work here gave me something of that this morning.

It isn't that grasping, tired, yukky, why-don't-I-have-an-iphone desire. It is knowing what we all day try not to know. A gnawing to which we too often desensitize. It is intuiting the absence of intangibles. Open eyes, clouds passing in front of stars, all of it.

You are a goddess on wheels Maru.

HA! It's been too many years, I completely forgot that brilliant book. Vonnegut is a god.

That is funny, and I love mistakes like that, but I must confess I'm stumped on the cool avatar.

Of course the Asterix and Obelix comics come to mind, but I know that's not where you're coming from. :)

What's the story?

These are the questions other people are simply too timid to ask. Well done, woman! Big grins from the imaginary coast of Mexico.

Loved it. As a former single daddy (attending my daughter's wedding next month!) I applaud you.

I loved "Major Warning Sign: When your primary motivation for taking a particular action is to make someone else happy at the expense of yourself…Stop!"

That's good perspective anytime.

Beautiful.