A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected."I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes__hen Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables__hen Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had__hen I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

the German and Japanese governments heavily subsidized their chemical industries for war purposes. Government subsidies, direct or indirect, spurred German developments in synthetic rubber and plastics, synthetic fuels, light metals, and various other substitutes for natural materials.However, the world's chemical industries would have grown rapidly without artificial encouragement.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.