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161 " Why do they treat us like children? they said & I said why do you treat them like adults?& their eyes opened wide & they began to laugh & talk all at once & suddenly everything looked possible again. "
― Brian Andreas , Trusting Soul
162 " Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn. "
― Brian Andreas
163 " One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him sometimes & wonder if he ever got there. "
― Brian Andreas , Story People
164 " One Child:I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time. "
165 " Perfect Day:It was a day filled with the glow of ordinary things & we passed them quietly from hand to hand for a long time & someone said she had picked a perfect day to be born & I think all of us felt the same. "
166 " Songs to Herself:She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life. "
167 " Scent:When she wore the hat, even many years later, she could always smell her mother's perfume & it was hard to remember she was supposed to be alone. "
168 " finally has figured out there aren't enough quiet little British films around to protect her from the real world "
169 " even after all these winters, I see you sitting there, perched at the edge of sunlight, feeling like the invitation of spring "
170 " Resorting to connecting the dots this morning because it was a long night & he needs to do something really simple to get started again. "
― Brian Andreas , Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind
171 " Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures. "
172 " She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life. "
173 " we went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again. "
174 " Had a long night last night on the other side of the world so he's having a hard time this morning letting his light shine "
175 " Bits of the World:gathering up bits of the world & setting them out in an order that her children can understand "
176 " Aerobics:Death take me now & spare me the pain, she said. It was difficult for me to get that excited. Get a grip, I said, it's only aerobics. "
177 " What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one. "
178 " When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every morning on their way to school & whisper tree songs at night in their dreams. Trees with deep roots know about the things that children need. "
179 " Today all I could remember was the way your body held the ocean of myself & for one moment there was only one us in all creation. "
180 " The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke. "