Queer little twists and quirks go into making an individual. To suppress them all and follow clock and calendar and creed until the individual is lost in the neutral gray of the host is to be less than true to our inheritance…Life, that gorgeous quality of life, is not accomplished by following another man’s rules. It is true we have the same hungers and same thirsts, but they are for different things and in different ways and in different seasons. Lay down your own day, follow it to its noon, your own noon, or you will sit in an outer hall listening to the chimes but never reaching high enough to strike your own. ~Angelo Patri

It’s not easy breaking away from the herd and forging one’s own path. There’s enough “have to” in life, it needs to be balanced out with want.

And as Katherine Hepburn said, “if you obey all the rules you miss all the fun”. I want that as a bumper sticker.

To life and living.