Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and aliens I'd never heard of.

Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.

It's almost August, and the last swarm of lovebugs swirls around me, their tiny connected bodies a tragedy. They're born, they fuck, they die a horrific death splattered against an uncaring windshield. That's the cycle: The ones we love always die.

If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say that, but life and death are the same to see death as an all horrible word to utter and life as an all good one would be unfair death is life's companion and it is the same with life and death, we are the balance between it.Gary F Evans...