Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else’s suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Mary Karr
Fatal Flight
Eagles may soar, but kiwis don’t get sucked into jet engines.
[Variant of “Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines,” variously attributed to Steven Wright, John Benfield and David Brent.]
Pocket Equality
When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.” Pockets are indeed indispensable, and they come in two types: patch and set-in.
from Sew Any Set-In Pocket by Claire B Shaeffer