"When you open a book," the sentimental library posters said, "anything can happen." This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone's way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one. --Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

I would like to live to be a hunded because loving and being loved are so good and there are so many books; but were I to learn now that I had only a week left, I would finish today's spell of writing, have the cup of coffee that I crave and go on with the one book I'm reading. --John Tittensor, Year One: A Record

May 16, 2011

Natural Prozac

by Dr. Joel Robertson, with Tom Monte

As every adult knows, goodness and weakness exist in everyone; similarly, every situation--no matter how good or bad--contains difficulties and opportunities, Moreover, each of us helps to create--by our own efforts, behaviors, and attitudes--the outcome and the quality of every situation we find ourselves in.
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