I know…it’s been a long time without words here. I do plan to post some photo updates, but first, a love post to Mr. JD Salinger, may he rest in peace today.

My brother gave me the book Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger at a time when this book was important for me to read. There was one, long section near the end that has never left me. Here it is ~ it still makes me cry…

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“It’s this business of desiring, if you want to know the goddam truth, that makes an actor in the first place. Why’re you making me tell you things you already know? Somewhere along the line – in one damn incarnation or another, if you like – you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress but to be a good one. You’re stuck with it now. You can’t just walk out on the results of your own hankerings. Cause and effect, buddy, cause and effect. The only thing you can do now, the only religious thing you can do, is act. Act for God, if you want to – be God’s actress, if you want to. What could be prettier? You can at least try to, if you want to – there’s nothing wrong in trying.” There was a slight pause. “You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I’m talking about . You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.”

–Zooey, to his sister, Franny in Franny and Zooey, 1955
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Thank you Mister Salinger for your words…
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