Look how beautiful my granddaughters are.

"I'm one of those sad souls who never stops loving people from the past, no matter how long ago or far away."

-- me

I went yesterday, for my birthday, to see the new Wes Anderson film. First time I've gone to the theater in a long while. I love his films, and could give a long list of reasons why, but here's one which I hadn't even realized until this moment, when I saw it in an interview with him (which is printed in a book about his films, which was featured in a documentary about them, which is the perfect way to learn something about them: layer within layer within layer).

"The flesh is at once man's burden and his temptation. He bears it and yields to it. He must keep watch over it and restrain it, and only obey it in the last resort. Such obedience may be a fault, but it is a venial fault. It is a fall, but a fall onto the knees which may end in prayer. To be a saint is to be an exception;  to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is the dream of angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; it is like the force of gravity."

-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables 

"What is reported of men, whether it be true or false, may play as large a part in their lives, and above all in their destiny, as the things they do." -- Victor Hugo