Breakfast on Tuesdays: My friend Caitlyn

My Little Books

"Jane Eyre" by: Charlotte Brontë
"Anne of Green Gables" by: Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Les Misérables" by: Victor Hugo
"Blue Horses" by: Mary Oliver
"Van Gogh's Letters: The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings and Words, 1875-1890" Edited by: H. Anna Smith
"Leaves of Grass" by: Walt Whitman
"Utopia" by: Sir Thomas More
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Pride and Prejudice" by: Jane Austin
"The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion" by: Elle Luna
"Dog Songs" by: Mary Oliver
"The Cat's Pajamas: Stories" by: Ray Bradbury
"A Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)" by: Lemony Snicket
"New and Selected Poems, Vol. One" by: Mary Oliver
"Types of Poetry" by: Jacob Zeitlin, Clarrissa Rinaker
"Housekeeping" by: Marilynne Robinson
"14000 Things to be Happy About" by: Barbara Ann Kipfer
"A Thousand Mornings: Poems" by: Mary Oliver
"English Literature: The Romantic Period" Edited by: Albert Granberry Reed
"Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems" by: Billy Collins
"Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed" by: Emily Pearson, Fumi Kosaka
"The Screwtape Letters" by: C.S. Lewis
"The Last Lecture" by: Randy Pausch
"The Secret" by: Rhonda Byrne

"Life Enthusiast"

"Do you know why I write?

Even though I'm very sick today, I write because it drives me. Writing reminds me that life is not meant to be lived, but appreciated.

We live through appreciation.

It's the subtle moments of stopping and observing life that we feel most alive. I believe that more than anything.

...I see a galaxy of ideas in the slightest fall of a dust molecule or the gentlest tug of a breeze on the curtain. I am not a mere writer--I am an observer of life, and all things stirring it.

Even today as I laid about, missing a day of school when I haven't in a long time, and watching a beloved show of mine seemingly all day--I was brought to a realization.

A thought that came into my mind while the wondrous characters I loved laid in a zucchini patch outside, starting up at the stars and the thought was this:

People would be more as they should if they laid out and looked up at the stars every night. Rain, snow, fog, or clouds--it would change them." (February 25, 2015 Wednesday 6:04PM)

I believe that.

I believe that because I believe in life.

I am a "Life Enthusiast".

It's what I am.

What are you?

-k.p.b.

Friday, January 15, 2016

My friend Caitlyn