I've been playing poker so long, I'm going to need another drink.

"...the powers that be send their love in the middle of the night. I'm gonna stand up and let myself be counted for Stand up now I've got my one life and what's it to amount to if I don't learn how to love you and love myself beside you mix the gentle and proud I want to love life, The vision in the window told me --- Stand up."

• Ferron - ~~

“Let us dream, as a single human family, as fellow travelers sharing the same flesh, as children of the same earth which is our common home, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all.”

-The Space Pope-