What looks like CRAZY on an ordinary day....

Well, I just finished reading another book. I think it's called "The story of Edgar Sawtelle." It's the latest on Oprah's Book Club list. I will not be adding it to my "must read" list even though it was a very good book...up until the end. I hate sad, bad endings. I guess no matter how much I like to think of myself as a realistic person that knows that sometimes life doesn't always have a happy ending I really need happy endings in my books. Maybe BECAUSE life is so unpredictable and senseless I need that upbeat ending so I have hope. Hope is important. Without hope, pessimism would overtake me and I'm afraid I would be even harder to live with.

I also read another book which I will not be adding to my "must reads" even though I liked it a lot better. There were a couple of lines in it that rang true to me and made me pause. When a line in a book can make me pause I like to make note of it.

"Joyce is that kind of a gal. Inertia is death. Forward motion is everything." What Looks Like Crazy on an ordinary day...By Pearl Cleage.

I like to think that describes me as well. I'm always looking for the way to move forward.

I also liked this line from the same book.
"And we danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and kissed too sweet, and threw back our heads and howled, just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight."

That was the last line of the book. Now THAT'S the way to end a book or a life or a story or a party. It's just a GREAT ending.