Mathoms, etc.

My friend Pinky posted this on our group blog on the day of my surgery last year. I still love the quote. It was from the film Stranger than Fiction and Emma Thompson's line reading was perfect.

"Sometimes when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And fortunately enough, when there aren't sugar cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs and uneaten danish and soft spoken secrets and fender guitars and to maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties which we assume only accessorize our days, are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange but I also know that it just so happens to be true."---Karen Eiffel