i have scribbled notes from books in my purse. they are getting cluttery so i'm putting them all in this post.

"sometimes i despair of ever understanding anything right when it happens to me, seems like i have to tell it in a letter to see what it was, even though i was right there all along." -letters from sugarfork

"trout incidentally had written a book about a money tree. it had twenty dollar bills for leaves. its flowers were government bonds. its fruit was diamonds. it attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. so it goes."

"and i asked myself about the present, how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."

a list:

spa kit

candles

flower seeds

incense

a/c unit??????fan

house warming gifts??

another list:

antique store

shorts present - MAIL

bridgett

food stamps

elegance of the hedgehog

apply for fasfa

paper towels

"'A psychiatrist could help. There's a good man in Albany.' Finnerty shook his head. 'He'd pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you can see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.' He nodded, 'Big undreamed of things - the people on the edge see them first.'" -player piano

exit through the gift shop - banksy film

"weighing the factors" december 2009, your weird, a little piece of glass, sea glass, sea bass

another list:

look up rugby, tn library, supposed to have a big catalogue of books that go back to the 1800's

put piano on craigslist

pay phone bill

"Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of Your heart. "